Chelsea terror bomb was like ‘doomsday’

The bomb blast in Chelsea that injured 31 people last year was so deafening, it sounded like “doomsday,” a witness told jurors Wednesday.

Cort Cheek, 58, said he was waiting outside his apartment building at 135 W. 23rd St. at about 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 17, 2016, when he heard a “double boom” so loud, “it was like the end of the world.”

“I thought it was doomsday,” said Cheek, testifying at the terror trial of Ahmad Rahimi, who is accused of plant- ing bombs in Manhattan and New Jersey.

Federal prosecutors highlighted Cheek’s testimony with surveillance footage showing him fleeing for safety in his wheelchair after the blast went off.

Cheek, who is partially paralyzed, said that after the blast, he had to wait in his building’s lobby until 4 a.m., because the elevator had stopped working.

Mary West, a blind woman from the same apartment complex, said her hearing is impaired to this day due to the explosion, which shattered car windows and sent a metal dumpster flying across 23rd Street.

Prosecutors also showed video surveillance of Rahimi, 29, walking with a roller suitcase that they said was filled with bombs. They showed the jury a pressure cooker similar to the one he allegedly used to wreak havoc, as well as bottles of Tannerite, an explosive material the FBI found at the scene of the crime.

An Uber driver testified on injuries he sustained in the blast. Repairs to his car cost more than $12,000 and put him out of work for two months, he said.