Tourist robbed of wedding ring

A tourist visiting the Big Apple with her husband was robbed of her engagement ring and wedding band in a coldhearted theft in Hell’s Kitchen early Tuesday.

Two men came up to help her, but in the process one snatched her engagement ring off her finger.

The couple, from Meraux, La., was waiting for a cab on West 46th Street around 12:30 a.m. when the 33-year-old woman stumbled and fell, according to police. The men approached as if to help, and when the 44-year-old husband confronted the thief, the perp slugged him in the neck and pulled up his own shirt to flash what appeared to be a gun in his waistband, police said.

The thug then grabbed the woman’s wedding band as well, fleeing with the ring in his mouth, sources said.

The couple is staying at a hotel in Times Square, police said. Police are looking for the two men. Reached Wednesday, the husband declined to comment.

“I feel bad for them,” Gustavo Perez, a waiter at a restaurant near the ring heist, told The Post on Wednesday. “I’m sure their vacation got ruined. You don’t want to get robbed on your vacation.”

Local resident Chad Ryan said the neighborhood isn’t as safe anymore.

“There is an uptick of crime in this area,” he said. “I’d take my dog out for a midnight walk, but no thank you. I don’t do it anymore. I don’t feel safe.”

“I walk my dog around 10, 10:30 [p.m.],” he said. “It feels more dangerous now than it has been in a while.”

The incident was just the latest in a series of crimes against tourists in the Big Apple.

On June 27, Marine Samuel Poulin was wounded by a stray bullet in Times Square during a squabble between teenagers. The newlywed’s shooting came one day after a 31-year-old Russian tourist was viciously assaulted by a mugger trying to snatch her purse in Chelsea while she was walking with a friend.

About two weeks earlier, a Texas woman visiting the city was walking back to her lower Manhattan hotel when a creep walked up, forcibly kissed her and groped her, police said.