Brooklyn
A young mom was assaulted as she walked with her 7-year-old daughter in Midwood, cops said.
The suspect (right) approached the 33-year-old woman on East 12th Street near Elm Avenue at 2:45 p.m. Saturday and punched her in the back of the head, according to police.
She fell on her hands and knees and suffered minor injuries, cops said.
The child was not harmed.
Police released this sketch of the man, who was last seen wearing a green jacket, black wool cap and jeans.
A man was struck and badly hurt in a hit-and-run moments after getting off a city bus, authorities said.
The victim had just stepped off the bus at Third Avenue and Bay Ridge Avenue at 9 a.m. Wednesday when he was hit by another vehicle, which zoomed away, cops said.
The man was taken in critical condition to Lutheran Hospital, where his condition was later upgraded to stable.
An investigation is ongoing, police said.
A boozed-up MTA mechanic plowed into two parked cars in Borough Park and kept going before cops arrested him nearby, authorities said.
Emmanuel Raymond was driving on East Ninth Street at Cortelyou Road when he lost control of his vehicle, hit the cars and took off, police said.
Cops found the 49-year-old MTA employee a few blocks away, on East 14th St. near Avenue I, where he was arrested.
Raymond, who was off-duty at the time of the incident, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, DWI and refusal to take a ÂBreathalyzer test, according to police.
A man was fatally shot in front of his Coney Island home, cops said.
Yaquin English was on Bayview Avenue in the Gravesend Houses at about 7 p.m. Tuesday when the gunman squeezed off multiple rounds, striking him in the torso.
English was pronounced dead at the scene.
No arrests had been made as of Wednesday evening.
The Bronx
A 16-year-old boy was shot in the chest in Melrose, but is expected to survive, cops said.
The victim was standing on East 156 Street near Concourse Village East at around 1:45 a.m. Wednesday when the assailant opened fire and fled, according to police.
The teen suffered a gunshot wound to the upper left chest and was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition with a wound that was not considered to be life-threatening.
No arrests had been made as of Wednesday evening.
Queens
Cops have arrested a 23-year-old man who they say fatally stabbed a co-worker in an Elmhurst Restaurant last weekend.
The victim, Furman Herrera-Martinez, was in Taco Veloz on Roosevelt Avenue near Junction Boulevard at around 5:50 a.m. Saturday Dec. 21, when Abel Galdino, 23, knifed him in the chest and arms after a verbal dispute over a woman, according to police.
Herrera-Martinez was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Galdino has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.
He has one prior arrest, for possession of a forged instrument, for allegedly using a fake identification card.
A man was shot yesterday afternoon in the Rockaways, police said.
The victim was on Beach 54th Street in the Arverne section when he was wounded.
He went on his home to St, John’s Hospital in Far Rockaway, where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries, police said.
The relationship, if any, between the victim and his shooter was unclear, police said.
Staten Island
A 24-year-old restaurant worker was nabbed in Bloomfield for driving drunk, according to cops.
Agustin Montez-Esponza had just left a party when he was caught swerving in a 2003 Nissan on the Goethals Bridge at around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, Port Authority cops said.
Officers followed Montez-Esponza into New Jersey, where he was arrested.
He allegedly admitted to drinking several beers at a party before he started heading back to his home in Freehold, NJ.
He was charged with DWI.
Furthermore, he was driving without a license and the car was unregistered, police said.
A man was shot by a gunman in Dongan Hills, cops said.
The victim was standing outside the Berry Houses on Richmond Road near Dongan Hills Avenue at around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday when the assailant opened fire and fled.
The victim was rushed to Staten Island University North, where he was treated for a wound that was not considered to be life-threatening, authorities said.
No arrests had been made as of Wednesday evening.