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A yellow cab struck a bicyclist, jumped a curb and hit a pedestrian on Thursday morning before smashing into a building across from NYU Langone Medical Center’s emergency room.

The cabbie was trying to get around cars waiting to turn onto East 33rd Street from First Avenue when he sped up and struck a Citibike rider shortly before 9 a.m., witnesses said.

He hit a GMC Yukon SUV, swerved toward a group of pedestrians waiting at the crosswalk, clipped a woman and hit the wall of a residential building at the northwest corner of First Avenue.

The cabbie, cyclist and pedestrian were taken to the emergency room a few feet away with minor injuries.

Jacqueline Goria, the Yukon driver, was waiting to turn onto East 33rd Street.

“I was at the light and the yellow cab was going around me but he hit the bicycle,” she told The Post. “I had my windows down and I hear the cab driver yelling, ‘Hey! Hey!'” before he hit.

The cab also hit a GMC Yukon SUV.James MesserschmidtThe cab also hit a GMC Yukon SUV.James Messerschmidt

“He went to go around and hit the bicycle guy and hits me in the left side of my truck. Then he heads to the corner, hits a Chinese woman and goes right into a building. When I saw that lady, he didn’t hit her right at the front — if he had, maybe she would be dead. He didn’t even stop with the brakes. I’m doing well now, but always I see the yellow cabs crazy driving in the city.”

A doorman said he heard a “literal explosion” when the taxi hit his building.

“He was bleeding from the hands and his mouth but he was conscious when they took him. They had to pry him out. The woman he hit was laid out on the street but she got up. It’s a miracle,” said Mike Mitchell, 50, of Far Rockaway.

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Christopher Collins, a lab tech at NYU Medical Center, was waiting to cross the street before the mayhem unfolded.

“People were scattering out of the way, dodging for their lives. This Chinese lady was about five feet away from me and he took her right leg and flipped her in the air,” he said. “I could feel the cab brush my jacket. Any closer and I’d be on the hood of the cab. Then the cab swerved again and hit the wall. He wasn’t trying to brake at all.”

Collins said the woman stood up after being hit.

“She wasn’t bleeding or cut but you could tell she was hurting. How I wasn’t plated between him and the wall is still going through my mind,” he said. “And that I should run to buy a lottery ticket.”

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