New York has taken a bite out of gum vandalism.

The city fixed a sticky situation in lower Manhattan on Friday when DOT workers replaced two gummed-up signs along Broadway between Murray and Vesey streets.

Tourists on double-decker buses had turned the road signs into disgusting messes by sticking their wadded-up gum to them as they passed underneath.

The signs had become eyesores — until the city was alerted to the problem by a Post exposé earlier in the week, officials said.

“Believe it or not, we were not aware of it prior to seeing the article in the newspaper,” DOT Assistant Commissioner for Traffic Control and Engineering Anthony Galgan told The Post.

The cleanup crew arrived two days after a vile visitor was caught on camera plastering the candy chew onto one of the already gum-littered sign.

One of the signs splattered with the sticky substance was at Broadway, between Vesey and Barclay streets, and the other was between Park Place and Murray Street.

Though it admitted it acted in response to the Post article, the DOT said that it often replaces signs.

“We replace a lot of signs,” said Galgan, noting there are over a million signs around the city. “We install 100,000 signs per year, and a lot of them are for defacements.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio weighed in on Wednesday — strangely suggesting analyzing the pysche of tourists who do it.

“I want to talk to these people and understand why on earth they think it’s really cool to put bubblegum on a sign,” he told reporters.

This isn’t the first time New York City has warred with gum wads. In 1939, New Yorkers spitting out gum became so problematic that then-Mayor Fiorello La Guardia warned it was costing the city “literally hundreds of millions of dollars a year to remove.”