New York Post

East Side gunfight at bar live on stream

- Snejana Farberov

A podcaster’s livestream captured the moment gunfire erupted outside a karaoke bar on Manhattan’s Upper East Side early Wednesday, sending the terrified woman diving for cover.

Police confirmed that a fight broke out between two couples outside Iggy’s bar at East 76th Street and Second Avenue shortly before 3 a.m. and led to a shooting that left a man wounded.

Keanu Thompson, a stand-up comic and host of the podcast KeanuCast, was wrapping up an on-air conversati­on with a caller in her apartment above the bar when shots rang out directly outside her window, causing her to flinch, as seen in a viral video shared on X.

As more shots are fired, a visibly rattled Thompson, dressed in a red crop top and a pair of sparkly devil’s horns, draws back from the window and seeks refuge underneath her desk.

“I’m not sure what’s happening, but I hear something bad happening,” a wide-eyed Thompson tells her listeners and YouTube viewers.

As a woman’s desperate screams are heard outside, a horrified Thompson hits the floor while repeatedly crying out, “Oh my f--king God!”

The frightened podcaster then makes a frantic phone call, telling the person on the other end of the line that she is hearing screams and gunshots outside her open window.

The person to whom Thompson is speaking suggests she go and look out the window to see what’s happening, but Thompson refuses, describing the situation unfolding around her as “terrifying,” before breaking down in sobs.

Outside, a 32-year-old man was shot seven times at around 2:49 a.m., an NYPD spokespers­on told The Post.

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