He’s got the face that launched a thousand subway cars.
A handsome Greek-born math whiz became the hottest thing on rails after his buddy put up posters in city subway cars saying he was on the hunt for his “Helen of Troy” — but the man has a girlfriend, and the prank is making his life hell.
“My phone started ringing and I was like, ‘What the hell is going on?’ ” Pavlos Sakoglou, 26, said Monday.
“I had no idea why I was suddenly getting all these text messages and pictures sent to my phone,” said the Chelsea resident working on master’s at City College.
His suitors included a man “who wouldn’t leave me alone and telling me I should try it with a guy.”
Sakoglou said he doesn’t mind being pranked, but his girlfriend isn’t too happy.
“She wants me to change my number,” he said, “but I just got it a couple of months ago.”
The posters — which show Sakoglou’s picture and the headline “Greek Looking for his Helen of Troy” — were the work of his best buddy, Nick Platt.
Platt, 27, who once worked as a documentary filmmaker, admitted he put them up a few weeks ago.
“I felt like doing something funny,” he explained.
He said he got the idea after reading a Post story two years ago about Dan Perino, 51, an actor who plastered his own looking-for-love posters across the city.
“I thought, that would be a good prank to play on Pavlos,” Platt said.
“He sits in his room a lot, studying math. I wanted to cheer him up. I had fun doing it. I’m not sorry.”
The Post found one of his posters still affixed inside an M train over the weekend. Looking over the photo, one young woman commented, “He’s cute. Maybe I should call.”
The poster says Sakoglou is a student from Thessaloniki and looking for a girlfriend.
“This is not a joke,” it reads. “I don’t like dating apps and I am tired of the single scene. Hoping to meet someone special who I can share this crazy journey of life with.”
It ends with: “Willing to shave mustache if necessary.”