An East Village hotspot is suing the city for tearing down its artsy outdoor dining shed “without any warning” — driving it into financial ruin, new court papers allege.

Pinky’s Space — through its parent company Cherry Velvet Inc. — says the city Department of Transportation on Oct. 27, without notice, demolished the 30-foot outdoor dining shed built during the pandemic under the city’s Open Restaurant Program, a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed Thursday charged.

The suit is seeking $615,000.

Pinky’s — a self-described “food art-space” on East First Street and First Avenue that opened in 2017 — says it invested $90,000 to build an outdoor dining area and garden replete with “a crystal chandelier, hanging disco ball, neon lights and works of art to parallel its indoor space,” the filing claims.

But the restaurant got two cease-and-desist letters during the summer for alleged non-compliance — though “each time made the requested changes,” the suit alleges.

The city never warned Pinky’s about “a threat of imminent harm” – with the restaurant only finding out the shed would be destroyed the day 18 DOT workers showed up to take it down, the court papers claim.

The DOT workers “were unable to provide” Pinky’s with any “justification or authority” for the demolition, the suit claims.

Instead, the DOT staff “cut the wires to the security cameras” and then mocked, danced and laughed for three hours while they destroyed the area, the suit claims.

Pinky’s owners “watched in horror,” and were told if they “stood in the way and did not remove themselves from the premises, they would be arrested for civil disobedience,” the filing alleges.

When the demolition was done, the owners were told they could reapply to the Open Restaurants program “and had the structure been taken down methodically, they could have rebuild the structure using the same material with limited damages once they were approved for the second time,” the court papers say.

The suit claims the city had worked with other restaurants to help bring their outdoor sheds into compliance — and not destroy them. And other abandoned sheds posed more of a safety threat, the suit alleges.

“Several members of the community” have complained there is increased danger in the neighborhood since Pinky’s shed came down, the filing says.

Pinky’s “invested every penny it had” into the business and relied on the Open Restaurants Program to stay alive. During the pandemic 90% of its business came from the outdoor space — which it rented out for events, art shows and performances, the filing says.

Pinky’s had events booked through the 2022 holiday season which “it was unable to carry out due to the DOT’s unlawful actions” — and was forced to close, with its landlords threatening to evict it from the space, the filing alleges.

Because the DOT has “caused interruption” to business, “substantial loss of profits,” and damaged Pinky’s reputation, the restaurant is seeking a minimum of $525,000 in damages plus interest, totaling $615,000.

Pinky’s co-owner Mimi Blitz told The Post when the shed was taken down that “we were still struggling from the pandemic but making it work.”

“And then someone comes and takes it away for no reason,” she lamented.

“We want our space back,” she insisted. “It was built with love and care.”

The city Law Department and DOT didn’t immediately return requests for comment.