The hulking prisoner who escaped from a Manhattan hospital by rappelling down the side of the building using tied-together bedsheets was captured on Tuesday – after more than a month on the lam, authorities said.

Yenchun Chen, 44, was busted at around 6:15 a.m. on the second floor of a building on 45th Avenue located about a half mile from his home in Queens, cops and law enforcement sources said.

It wasn’t immediately unclear how long Chen – who was initially arrested July 31 on drug charges – had been holed up in the Long Island City building.

The Department of Correction officers who were responsible for watching over him when made his Spider-Man-like getaway from Mount Sinai Beth Israel were suspended for 30 days without pay, according to law enforcement sources.

Chen – who stands around 6-foot-3 and weighs about 250 pounds – managed to dodge capture for nearly five weeks in the aftermath of his broad-daylight escape from the Gramercy Park hospital on Aug. 9.

Sources said Chen – who was hospitalized Aug. 4 when he experienced a cardiac issue – had just been escorted to the shower around 4:30 p.m. that day when he tied up some sheets and used them to climb down from a fifth-floor window and onto a roof below.

He then climbed a ladder down to the street, hopped into a yellow taxi cab and took off southbound on Second Avenue, police and sources said. 

Hours after the risky escape, the NYPD released photos of Chen as he was last seen fleeing the hospital, wearing a blank white T-shirt and tan pants. He also appeared to still have a hospital bracelet on his wrist.

The fugitive was tracked to somewhere in New Jersey the following day – and investigators checked out a few possible addresses where they thought Chen may have been hiding out – but wound up chasing their tails because he was nowhere to be found, authorities and sources have said.

Chen was finally captured Tuesday by officers from the city’s Correction Intelligence Bureau and as well as US Marshals, a spokesperson for the Department of Correction said. 

Chen was taken to the more secure Bellevue Hospital for medical evaluation and treatment, according to the NYPD and DOC. 

He now faces charges for escaping jail or custody, on top of the criminal possession of a controlled substance raps he was initially arrested on, the NYPD said.