COPS FISH 4 ATM MACHINES FROM THE RIVER! NOW THOSE ARE LIQUID ASSETS!

Police divers pulled four ATMs from the Flushing River Friday - dumped there by a brazen crook suspected of stealing dozens of them off city streets.

Valentin Garcia, 34, is accused of using a stolen van to ram sidewalk ATMs and haul them away. He would empty the cash and then dump them.

"He gave the phrase 'cash machines' a whole new meaning," a police source said.

A tipster told cops they could find some of the machines in the river just north of the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.

NYPD diver Sgt. Paul Reynolds Friday found four of the machines in up to 7 feet of brackish water. Cops believe Garcia tossed them off a bridge.

He has been charged with four thefts but is suspected in dozens of other heists. The spree began in December when Garcia smashed and grabbed a machine on Clinton St. in lower Manhattan, police said.

He struck again in March, driving off with a Washington Heights machine stuffed with $12,000 - and again on April 12, with a machine stolen from W. 52nd St.

His luck ran out April 21 when he was spotted ramming an ATM with a stolen Econoline van on Rutgers St. in Manhattan, police said. Cops grabbed him as he tried to escape by jumping into the Hudson River.

A career criminal with 24 prior arrests, he was released on bail April 28 - only to be arrested the next day for the March robbery, police said.

He's being held on $25,000 bail