Statewide gas prices are soaring to an average $4 per gallon — but city residents are already feeling the heartburn, with some prices rocketing in the direction of $5.

One station in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District is just 35 cents below the wallet-shocking $5-per-gallon threshold — meaning restaurants aren’t the only high-priced places in the trendy neighborhood.

“It’s absolutely too much. It really hurts,” said Chiqui Matthews, 32, a Brooklyn Heights resident who steered his gas-guzzling Range Rover into the Mobil station at 10th Avenue and West 14th Street, for a $90 tankful of the city’s priciest gas.

The station’s price is 57.5 cents more than the citywide average of $4.08 — and of course, it’s not the only above-average price around town.

The Mobil station on West 96th Street near West End Avenue on the Upper West Side charges $4.38 a gallon.

Since September, the price of a barrel of oil has risen 48 percent, and US gas prices have gone up 42 percent.

Most of the increases have come since mid-February, when Libyan rebels began fighting the Khadafy regime, shutting down the oil-rich country’s exports.

The average gas price in the five boroughs was 10.5 cents per gallon higher yesterday than a week ago, when the average price was $3.97. A month ago a gallon cost $3.82, and a year ago it cost around $3.

The national average for gas has increased for 25 straight days, and is now $3.82 per gallon, but the government expects pump prices to keep climbing this summer as vacationers take to the highways.

(Source: NY Post)