This bodega’s serving up knuckle sandwiches.
A lion-hearted deli worker fought off two armed robbers posing as cops inside an Upper West Side bodega Monday night — and it wasn’t even his second month on the job.
Police confirmed the bodega located on Broadway and 89th St. was targeted by thieves around 6:48 p.m.
Hassan Al-Sufyani, 22, was working the register at 89 Convenience Mart when a man entered claiming to be a cop and demanding to search the place, the worker said.
“I said ‘no, show me a warrant, get out of my place’,” said Al-Sufyani, a Bronx native.
“He lifted his shirt and showed me a gun. He pushed on me and I pushed him back. He called one of his boys and the other guy comes running. I pushed them both out. We were fighting for a minute.”
Al-Sufyani said the second thief started looting UPS packages from the deli, which serves as a drop-off point for deliveries, while he was busy fighting off the crook with the gun.
“I was looking for something to hit them with, but I couldn’t find nothing,” said Al-Sufyani. “I’m not a hero, I just try to be.”
In the end, Al-Sufyani fought off the bandits, who only managed to grab two small packages.
“I wasn’t going to let them rob my place,” the deli worker said.
He described the thieves as men in their 20s, with braided hair and wearing black clothes, who were last seen fleeing south on Broadway.
When asked if he’d be requesting a raise, Al-Sufyani said, “I’m good, I was just trying not to get hurt.”
