MTA-crazy crew takes a city bus on joyride

An MTA bus-turned-partybus was taken for a joyride between Queens and Brooklyn, officials said.

It was a third time in a month thieves have swiped a city bus, which now come with push-button ignitions, sources said.

In the latest escapade, someone rolled off with the 12-ton MTA vehicle from the corner of 165th St. and South Road in Jamaica, Queens, around 3 a.m. Tuesday.

The bus was found undamaged three hours later, 7 miles away on Liberty Ave. and Conduit Blvd. in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn.

No arrests have been made. The NYPD tweeted images of the suspects from the bus' surveillance system, which comes on when the bus is started.

On Dec. 23, two crews of teenagers stole city buses in separate incidents in the Bronx and Brooklyn, officials said.

At about 12:30 a.m., three teens entered a bus in an unattended MTA garage on Williams Place and Herkimer St. in East New York, Brooklyn. When they turned on the engine, they also inadvertently turned on the interior surveillance system.

The MTA found the bus at 4 a.m. undamaged on Conduit Blvd. and Atlantic Ave. in Cypress Hills — about two blocks from where Tuesday's stolen bus was found.

Several hours later, at about 7:40 p.m., teens swiped an empty bus on Hunts Point Ave. and Southern Blvd. in Longwood, the Bronx.

They allegedly drove the bus for four hours, heading to several spots in Brooklyn and Queens, before leaving it on Prospect and Westchester Aves. — about half a mile from where they stole it. The bus was undamaged.

A spokesman said the MTA will be tightening security where the buses are kept throughout the five boroughs.