Jeffrey Vargas, 45, was nabbed around noon and charged with robbery and assault, both in the second degree, in connection to the 10:30 p.m. Tuesday attack on a 36-year-old cart operator at West 49th Street and Eighth Avenue,

Police are searching for a suspect who allegedly knocked out a food vendor’s teeth during a vicious robbery near Times Square this week.

A mugger brutally beat a Hell’s Kitchen food vendor with a metal pipe – breaking his teeth – before ripping off $3,500 from him in a brutal attack this week, authorities said. The 36-year-old food cart operator was working around 10:30 p.