Manhattan
A 70-year-old woman’s legs were crushed yesterday when she was struck by a tractor-trailer making a turn onto Third Avenue on the Upper East Side.
The unidentified woman was crossing at East 83rd Street at 9:35 a.m. when the truck, which was hauling lumber, turned and struck her in the crosswalk.
Witnesses said the woman’s legs were severely crushed, and one may have been severed. She was rushed to New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she was listed in critical condition.
The driver was issued summonses for failure to yield and various commercial violations, but no criminality was suspected.
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Three thugs have been arrested for beating and robbing three men at knifepoint in lower Manhattan, authorities said yesterday.
Christopher Dabkowski, 20, Przemyslaw Zebrowski, 22, and Kamil Dabkowski, 21, confronted one victim on John Street near Broadway at 1:50 a.m. Sunday.
They allegedly put a knife to his throat and swiped his wallet, which held three credit cards.
The trio then approached the second victim nearby and ripped off his wallet, police said.
Finally, they brutally beat the third victim as he tried to call 911, authorities said.
Someone notified police, and the suspects were arrested on robbery charges.
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A homeless man yesterday stabbed another vagrant near a pedestrian walkway leading over the FDR Drive on the Upper East Side, police said.
The 24-year-old victim was stabbed in the neck at 9:15 a.m. on East 64th Street. He was expected to survive.
The suspect, who neighbors said lived under the ramp leading over the highway, fled and remained at large.
Brooklyn
A McDonald’s customer went nuts when he didn’t get his fast food fast enough, cops said.
Maurice Knight, 24, grew impatient while waiting for his pancakes, and allegedly pitched a fit in the eatery on Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn at 5:30 a.m. Monday.
He hurled his drink at a worker, hitting him in the shoulder, then smashed a credit-card machine on the ground, cops said. Police arrived and busted Knight for criminal mischief and attempted assault.
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“Book” him! A bozo boozer was busted for allegedly swigging vodka, shouting at people and swinging a chair at them — in the Greenpoint Branch Library, of all places.
The trouble began at 11 a.m. Monday when a librarian saw Keith Raia, 46, drinking vodka from a plastic bottle and asked him to leave, sources said.
Enraged, Raia allegedly picked up a chair and began swinging it while shouting, “F – – – you, b- – ches, I’ll cut you up.”
The manager called 911, and Raia was arrested for menacing and disorderly conduct.
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A gunman shot a man in the arm during an argument in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said yesterday.
The men clashed on Quincy Street near Malcolm X Boulevard at 12:35 p.m. Monday.
The assailant pulled a .25-caliber automatic, shot the victim and fled, police said. The man was treated at Kings County Hospital and released.
Bronx
A Morris Park landlady stabbed a wheelchair-bound tenant with a pair of scissors, authorities and neighbors said.
Geronimo Lopez, 47, was taken to Jacobi Hospital in stable condition late Monday after Jannie Johnson, 50, allegedly attacked him in his apartment.
Neighbors said Johnson had gone to borrow money from Lopez, and when he refused to give her any, she began to ransack the place.
Lopez — who has used a wheelchair since suffering a stroke — responded by attacking her with a bat, and she then stabbed him several times with the scissors, police said.
She was arrested on several charges, including attempted murder.
Staten Island
An Arkansas man who failed to familiarize himself with New York’s gun laws triggered his own arrest at the Goethals Bridge.
Dexter Daniels, 37, was driving on Forest Avenue near the Staten Island Expressway at 1:40 p.m. Sunday, when police noticed he had a cracked windshield and pulled him over.
As Daniels went for his license and registration, cops spotted a loaded .38 revolver and a 9mm semiautomatic in plain view, police said.
A spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said Daniels was charged with weapon possession.
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A dimwitted bandit was busted after robbing his female neighbor at knifepoint just steps from his own home in New Dorp Beach, cops said yesterday.
Gary Pulice, 38, who made his debut in the NYPD Blotter last week for another alleged knifepoint robbery, followed a man into a home on Roma Avenue near Ebbitts Street at 3:20 a.m. Sunday, cops said.
Pulice allegedly encountered the female resident, brandished a butcher knife and swiped her cash.
She called cops and Pulice fled, but police arrested him on Monday.