Uber smooch lawsuit

Now the city can kiss his butt.

Cabbie Ahmad El Boutary is suing New York City, Taxi and Limousine Commission Chairwoman Meera Joshi and city officials for abruptly yanking his license after he made two women get out his car for kissing.

The Uber driver said the city wronged him by suspending him without notice after the lesbian kissing fiasco story broke last month.

The women said El Boutary wrongly booted them from his vehicle June 9 after they shared a prim peck on the lips.

El Boutary, 36, insists he made them get out because they were seriously making out — not because they were both women.

He wants his for hire vehicle license reinstated, plus unspecified damages, his Brooklyn Federal court lawsuit says.

Alex Iovine, 26, an advertising technology consultant, said she and her girlfriend, Emma Pichl, 24, a senior recruiter, were looking for a ride June 9 from Brooklyn to Manhattan.

El Boutary picked them up in Brooklyn — but only took them as far as Allen Street in Manhattan, where he ejected them because he said they went hot and heavy in the back seat.

“Kissing is not illegal,” one punted passenger said. “Yea, it is illegal. … You don't do that here in the car,” El Boutary replied.

Both sides reported the incident to Uber. When Iovine posted the video, the story hit high gear.

Within days, the TLC suspended El Boutary's license and pressed to have it revoked, the suit said.

Earlier this week, an administrative law judge recommended El Boutary's suspension be immediately lifted.

The advisory opinion said it seemed unlikely El Boutary “would give up a fare and potentially risk receiving a bad Uber rating for something as mild as a ‘peck kiss.'”

But El Boutary's suspension is still in effect, even though chairwoman Joshi has the power to overide, alter or sign off on the ruling.

The suit said El Boutary has been missing out on work “without any finding or plausible claim that his licensure presents a threat to public health or safety and without any ruling that he violated any TLC rule or City law.”

El Boutary's lawyer, Daniel Ackman, told the News his client was been shafted in the snogging storm's fallout.

“He's not getting any income to support his wife and two kids. He's been branded as this bigot very publicly,” said Ackman.