Eric Schneiderman had a paint-spattered maintenance worker at his swank Upper West Side apartment building run interference Thursday morning as he scurried into a waiting SUV.

The longtime employee, who gave his name as Henry, told The Post he was working inside near the service entrance when the disgraced ex-attorney general begged him for help.

“Henry, will you walk in front of me because the press are out there waiting for me?” Henry recalled Schneiderman saying.

Schneiderman also used the service entrance to get back into the building when he returned late Thursday afternoon — and lucked out when a neighbor pedaled up on a bicycle as Schneiderman waited for the door to be buzzed open.

The cyclist conveniently shielded Schneiderman from a photographer while saying, “Hello, I’d like to get into my building with my bike.”

Schneiderman abruptly resigned from office after the New Yorker magazine on Monday published allegations that he assaulted three ex-girlfriends and a woman who spurned his advances.

Schneiderman has admitted engaging in “role-playing and other consensual sexual activity,” but insists he never “assaulted anyone.”