Manhattan
A thief stole $31,000 in cash from a minivan three blocks from a Tribeca police station house, authorities said.
The driver of the vehicle told cops he had been carrying cash to refill an ATM when he parked his gray Honda Odyssey at West Broadway and Leonard Street at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The victim, who declined to reveal his name or say why he had left the vehicle with so much cash inside, told The Post he returned to find the tinted rear driver’s-side window shattered and the money gone.
“It’s horrible, really bad,” he said.
The stunned driver said he believed he must have been followed or staked out by someone who knew he carried large amounts of cash.
No one has been arrested and police are looking for clues along the route the driver had taken over the Brooklyn Bridge.
Brooklyn
A knife-wielding thief robbed a clerk who had just opened her cash drawer in East Flatbush, police sources said.
The robber first put a tube of lip balm and $2 on the counter at the Rite Aid on Avenue D near Albany Avenue at 8:30 a.m. last Thursday, cops said.
The thief waited for the 33-year-old worker to open the register, then pulled a knife and barked, “Give me the money!”
The woman forked over $128, police said.
The robber was last seen wearing a colorful scarf, a black jacket and a red hoodie.
Police released photos of three suspects in the shooting of an East New York man Sunday.
The 19-year-old victim had entered Flor del Canario on Pitkin Avenue to order food at around 2:30 p.m. when the would-be assassins arrived and started firing at him, cops said.
The victim took bullets in the chest and neck as he dived over the counter, police said.
The suspected shooters (pictured) fled, cops said.
The victim was in serious but stable condition at Brookdale Hospital.
Police arrested one of two people who have recently been terrorizing elderly women in East New York apartment buildings, authorities said.
Abbey Bethea, 39, and an unidentified man followed an 89-year-old woman into her Ardsley Loop building at around 10 p.m. on Jan. 4, cops said.
The man put the victim in a choke hold while Bethea stole the senior citizen’s purse, police said.
The duo fled with the elderly woman’s bank cards and cash, according to cops.
Two weeks later, Bethea targeted a 64-year-old woman walking into the same building at 1:40 p.m., but failed to keep that victim in a choke hold and ran off empty-handed, police added.
Twenty minutes later and a few blocks away on Pennyslvania Avenue, the thugs targeted a 74-year-old woman and her 86-year-old friend, stealing an iPhone and umbrellas, cops said.
No victim was seriously injuraed, police said.
Bethea was collared Monday and charged with robbery while her accomplice, 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, was on the lam.
Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in her Canarsie apartment, authorities said.
A 12-year-old nephew of Jerneil Simeon, 30, went down into the basement of the family home on Avenue M to do laundry at around 9:20 p.m. Monday when he found Simeon’s body on her bed in the basement apartment, according to cops.
The boy ran upstairs and alerted his parents, who called 911.
Simeon lived alone and relatives said they hadn’t spoken to her since Saturday, after she had fallen and struck her head, sources said.
Queens
A woman said she was sexually assaulted in front of a college building in Long Island City, cops said.
The 22-year-old victim said she was sitting in her 48-year-old ex-boyfriend’s parked car in front of La Guardia Community College at around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday when he attacked her.
She reported the incident immediately, and cops are searching for the suspect.
Investigators are trying to determine whether speed was a factor in a Fresh Meadows crash that killed a Brooklyn woman and a man from upstate Middletown.
The 19-year-old driver, whose name was not released, lost control of his Audi sedan in the westbound lanes of the Long Island Expressway between Utopia and Kissena boulevards at around 1 a.m. Tuesday, police said.
The car flipped onto its side, skidded across three lanes of traffic in the snow and smashed into a tree, cops said.
The driver and his 30-year-old passenger were pronounced dead at the scene.
There were no immediate signs that drugs or alcohol had played a factor, police said.