They’re slowly getting back in the New York groove.

Straphangers are returning to the city’s subways, with more than 4.1 million hitting the rails on Tuesday to set a new post-pandemic high, MTA statistics show.

“This is where we wanted to be,” said MTA chairman Janno Lieber, whose agency depends on passenger fares for nearly $5 billion of its $19 billion budget. “We’re moving in the right direction.”

Though the 4.14 million rider figure is still just 72 percent of the 5.7 million riders who took the subway on the third Tuesday after Labor Day in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, it is up more than 100,000 from the 4 million riders last Tuesday, Sept. 12.

It’s also a massive jump from 3.5 million people who rode the rails on Sept. 5, the Tuesday immediately after Labor Day.

The upswing comes as schools and universities have come back into session, while many companies across the Big Apple — and nationally — have begun more aggressively pushing employees back into the office.

The Tuesday subway ridership figures are 10% higher than the same date last year, Lieber told the board, arguing the results showed the agency had regained momentum following a slower summer.

The falloff of ridership following the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic left the MTA’s finances a shambles, facing major deficits that were filled using emergency aid from the federal government that was set to expire.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers struck a $1.1 billion deal to fill the transit behemoth’s budget gaps by hiking a payroll tax on large employers in the five boroughs.

The agreement also funded service boosts on several subway lines — including the No. 1, No. 6, B, C, D, G, J, M and R — and a pilot program that made five bus routes fare-free for six months to test the effect on ridership and service.