Soho food-cart feud

Three busted as turf war erupts in violence

What the halal? A food-cart vendor was attacked early Saturday by three rivals who pummeled him with a chunk of metal — just so they could take over his prime spot across from Bloomingdale’s in Soho, police said.

But the vendor, M.D. Rahman, wound up with the spot — and the last laugh.

The attackers were busted on gang-assault charges, police said.

Meanwhile, Rahman, 32, was back at work in his old spot by mid-afternoon, despite multiple bruises and a torn navy T-shirt.

“Three guys, they want to take my spot,” Rahman (inset), of Woodhaven, Queens, told The Post as he chopped chicken for biryani rice and tikka masala.

“Three guys — a peanut guy, he’s new, and the others I don’t know,” he said.

Rahman had occupied the spot for 10 years, ever since arriving in New York from his native Bangladesh.

He had been away from the spot, between Broome and Spring streets, for a few days outfitting a replacement cart, and figures that in the interim, the “peanut guy” and the two others took it over.

“Three, four days, I’m not here,” he said. “I think this peanut guy parked here” when he was away, Rahman said.

“They suddenly hit. Suddenly, he grabbed my shirt. It ripped,” Rahman said of the “peanut guy.”

“One guy kicked my back,” he said.

“I fall down. I don’t know nothing that happen after,” he said.

Rahman couldn’t linger in the hospital Saturday, he told The Post, only long enough for doctors to ice his injuries.

He had left the cart unattended, and needs the income to support his mother, he explained. “I’m OK now,” he said, despite wincing in apparent pain as he sat down on the floor of his cart to rest a moment.

The three alleged attackers were identified by police as Carlos Lopez-Pizarro, 31, Eduardo LatinCisterna, 46, and Marco Vial, 50, all of West New York, NJ.

It was unclear which was peanut guy.”

About two weeks ago, a turf war between two other vendors in Manhattan turned bloody, police sources said at the time.

One halal vendor set up his cart directly across the street from the other at the corner of West 44th Street and Fifth Avenue on Aug. 16, according to the sources.

When the vendor already stationed there objected, his competitor, Khandaker Joy, reached for a cooking knife and slashed him in the abdomen, the sources said.

Joy was arrested and charged with second-degree assault.

“Every day I’m working here,” the victim, Sameh Barsoon, 34, told The Post the day after the incident.

“There comes another guy on the other side,” he said. “the