Five vicious robbers brutally beat a 20-year-old student who was rushing home in gale-force winds as Superstorm Sandy savaged New York.

The thugs made off with Jeremy Furchtgott’s iPhone and $40 – but not before one of them ground the Yeshiva student’s face into the sidewalk and threatened to kill him.

Surveillance video captured the entire shocking assault in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn and nearby trees can be seen whipping violently in strong winds.

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