Hotness Robert Pattinson has been in NY for sometime now – he even got himself clipped by a cabbie for trying to run from fans.

Having not gotten a glimpse of the British visitor first hand myself, I went on down to Chinatown to await his trailer activity.

With “fans” corralled behind barricades – for a change, what resulted turned out to be nothing short of orchestrated mayhem.

I managed to procure this pic with the boy du jour and his bloodied makeup, flanked by P.A’s and a new security detail – that old one was canned promptly after the cab scene.

The scene however took place in an alley way for which great lengths were taken to minimize paps from getting images – of course some did…