Tsk, tsk, Michael Phelps. Partying your face off in public is not the way to reclaim your good-guy image.

The Olympian, who has been laying relatively low since his bong-smoking scandal in January, was out in full force Tuesday night at NYC hot spot Marquee.

“Michael was definitely having a good time,” an eyewitness tells us. “He was drinking straight from a bottle of Grey Goose, and when the deejay started playing M.I.A.’s ‘Paper Planes,’ he got up, started dancing like a loon and kept on yelling, ‘Shots!’”

Phelps definitely had enough alcohol on hand for several rounds — he’d ordered four bottles of vodka.

In addition, the athlete skeeved out onlookers when he persisted in PDA-ing with his girlfriend, cocktail waitress Caroline (Caz) Pal.

“They wouldn’t stop making out! They were literally sucking face, and not caring that anyone was watching,” says our snitch, who added that Phelps danced up such a storm that he briefly went shirtless, changing out of his T-shirt in the club and putting on a zip-up hoodie with nothing underneath.

But the night wasn’t all fun and games for Phelps. During the course of the evening, the champ recognized UConn basketball player Hasheem Thabeet and went over to introduce himself.

“Hasheem had absolutely no clue who Michael was, and [Phelps] walked away looking a little embarrassed,” says the onlooker.

The night ended for the champ around 2:30 a.m., when he was spotted getting into a cab and heading to a friend’s pad to “chill.” Hopefully, he didn’t engage in any “behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment,” as per the swimmer’s recent public apology for his past indiscretions.

A rep for Phelps didn’t return a call for comment by our deadline.

While Michael was perfecting his partying skills, his mom was having a far more sedate time over at the Grand Hyatt.

“Michael is in New York to be with his mama, of course,” Debbie Phelps told us at the “Dressed for Success” event. “He’s actually back in training right now.”

For what, Debbie? Is there an Olympic medal for clubbing?

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