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NYPD Daily Blotter

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The Bronx

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A gun-toting robber was seen on surveillance video holding up a grocery store in Claremont, authorities said.

The gunman barged into the grocery on East 174th Street near Clay Avenue on Nov. 24 at about 5:15 p.m. and demanded cash, police said.

Employees forked over an unknown sum of money to the gunman, police said.

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Two gun-toting thieves (see video) were seen on surveillance video robbing a Melrose deli, authorities said.

The robbery took place in the store on East 161st Street at about 11 p.m. on Nov. 28, sources said.

The duo ordered everyone to the floor and forced the cashier to open the register, police said.

In the picture above, a customer is seen on the floor behind a gunman, who is motioning to another person to get down.

The robbers fled from the deli with an unknown sum of cash, police said.

No one was harmed amid the mayhem.

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The suspect at right is wanted for the attempted robbery of a Mount Eden bank branch, police said. He allegedly entered the Capital One branch at 19 E. Mount Eden Ave. at 2:10 p.m. Nov. 2 but fled empty-handed after the teller refused to hand over money.

Manhattan

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A husband knifed his common-law wife yesterday in Central Park, authorities said.

The 30-year-old man for unknown reasons slashed the 30-year-old woman on the arm at about 10:50 a.m. in the Great Hills section of the park near West 103rd Street, police said.

He then turned the knife on himself and slashed his wrists while the couple’s horrified 4-year-old son looked on, cops said.

The suspect tried to resist arrest and injured three cops, who sustained minor injuries, police said.

The victim and the attacker were taken to St. Luke’s Hospital in stable condition, police said.

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An MTA bus traveling through East Harlem was struck by an object thrown from a car yesterday, authorities said.

The windshield of the M101 bus was cracked, but no one aboard was hurt.

Theincident occurred at Lexington Avenue and East 116th Street at 6 p.m. The bus driver was taken to a hospital to be treated for trauma.

The driver of a Chevy Impala was being questioned early this morning.

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A suspected serial burglar was busted after repeatedly breaking into offices at Columbia University, authorities said.

On Sept. 17 at about 11:15 a.m., John Morales, 18, was seen on surveillance video walking along the hallways of the building on Broadway near West 115th Street, records show.

He allegedly broke into an office, ransacked drawers and stole $250 from a petty-cash box.

On Nov. 15, staffers reported that keys and 250 MetroCards were missing, court records show.

On Nov. 20, a laptop computer and $100 were also reported missing from an office.

Cops lifted fingerprints from several offices that matched Morales’, the records show.

Morales, who in 2009 was barred from the school for undisclosed reasons, was nabbed on Dec. 2 at 1:30 p.m. after being caught trying to open locked doors, according to court records.

When he was arrested, cops found in his possession two marijuana joints and a switchblade, records indicate.

Morales was slapped with charges of burglary, grand larceny, possession of burglary tools and unlawful possession of marijuana, records show.

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The suspect pictured above is wanted for pilfering money from a woman’s bank account in Midtown with a stolen ATM card, authorities said.

The suspect went into a TD branch at Second Avenue and 49th Street on Sept. 9 and withdrew cash, police said.

The suspect, who sports a neck tattoo, fled with $1,800, cops said.