The two bearded bandits pictured above snatched two bicycles from the basement of a Long Island City home, police said.
Police are seeking an armed suspect (above) with a penchant for safari hats who last week knocked off a hotel and a sandwich shop.
Manhattan
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A brute assaulted a woman in a Washington Heights subway station while stealing her iPhone, police said.
The 37-year-old victim was on the southbound 1-train platform at the West 157th Street station on Broadway at about 6:45 a.m. Friday when the hood approached her from behind and plucked her i-Phone from her shirt pocket, police said.
He then shoved her to the grungy platform floor before fleeing.
The woman suffered minor injuries to her wrist and knee.
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The body of a man was found floating in the Hudson River yesterday, cops said.
The fully clothed corpse was pulled from the currents by an NYPD Harbor Patrol unit at 12:13 p.m. and brought to the West 79th Street Boat Basin.
The medical examiner will determine his identity and cause of death.
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A man claimed that he was shot in the arm yesterday while driving on the Upper West Side, police said.
The 32-year-old victim walked into St. Luke’s Hospital at around 2 a.m. and told doctors and cops that he had been shot in the elbow by another motorist as the two sped along the Henry Hudson Parkway near the West 95th Street exit.
The parkway’s southbound lanes between 125th Street and 95th Street were closed for several hours as detectives searched for evidence.
Queens
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Two bearded bandits snatched two bicycles from the basement of a Long Island City home, police said.
The burglars swiped the rides from a house on 31st Avenue at around 1:15 a.m. June 15.
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The hunt is on!
Police are seeking an armed suspect with a penchant for safari hats who last week knocked off a hotel and a sandwich shop.
The perp flashed a gun at the clerk behind the check-in counter of the Howard Johnson Hotel at 153-95 Rockaway Blvd. in Springfield Gardens at 10:15 p.m. Monday and scored $340.
The next day, at 11:45 p.m., he wore the same hat while showing his weapon to an employee in the Subway sandwich shop at 252-18 Rockaway Blvd. in Meadowmare Park and swiping $416 from the register before fleeing.
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A punchy thug was arrested for assaulting a city bus driver in Fresh Meadows, authorities said.
Glenn Whelan, 20, began cursing and yelling at the MTA employee as the bus headed toward the intersection of Union Turnpike and Utopia Parkway at about 2 a.m. July 5, court papers say.
Whelan then popped the driver in the face, causing his eyeglasses to fall off and break, a witness told investigators, according to the documents.
The suspect was charged with assault, criminal mischief and harassment. It’s unclear what triggered his rage.
The driver suffered cuts and bruises to his head and was treated at an undisclosed hospital.
Staten Island
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Police have collared a second teen wanted for a gunpoint mugging of four people near Conference House Park in Tottenville.
Richard McCallister, 19, was arrested Thursday at his Main Street home for his alleged role in the July 7 stickup at the end of Hylan Boulevard near Satterlee Street, cops said.
McCallister and cohort Steven Pak, also 19, flashed a gun and took cellphones and cash from their victims, cops said.
McCallister, who was on parole for an attempted-robbery conviction, was slapped with four counts of robbery, said a spokesman for Distirct Attorney Dan Donovan.
He is being held in lieu of $25,000 bail.
Pak was busted Tuesday on the same charges and is being held in lieu of $100,000.
Brooklyn
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An off-duty NYPD officer was arrested yesterday after a booze-fueled crash in Williamsburg, police said.
Elvis Garcia was driving his personal sedan when he rear-ended another car near Havemeyer Street and South Fifth Street at about 5:45 a.m., cops added.
There were no reported injuries. Garcia was charged with DWI, and he has been suspended without pay.