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NYPD Daily Blotter

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Manhattan

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A quick-thinking straphanger snapped a photo (above) of a man who had allegedly rubbed up against her in a subway car on the Upper East Side, authorities said.

The suspect was aboard the No. 4 train Monday at 9:40 a.m. between 86th and 59th streets when the victim felt the perv’s unwelcome advances, police said.

The victim says the man came up behind her and rubbed against her buttocks, cops said.

The suspect is in his early 40s and was wearing a blue baseball cap and a black jacket, police said.

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The NYPD Harbor Unit pulled the body of a woman from the Hudson River yesterday off Hamilton Heights, authorities said.

The body of the unidentified woman in her 30s was spotted at 11:05 a.m. by a jogger near 12th Avenue and West 135th Street, cops said.

The Medical Examiner’s Office is working with detectives to identify the body and determine the cause of death, authorities said.

Brooklyn

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A man was gunned down amid a botched home-invasion robbery yesterday in East New York, authorities said.

Edwin Pacheco, 41, was in his home on Logan Avenue near Grace Avenue at 6:20 a.m. when three men in ski masks burst in, police said.

One of the men shot Pacheco in the head and pistol-whipped a relative, police said.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Cops said the thieves were looking for money, and the robbery appears to be drug-related.

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A father of two was found shot to death in the driveway of an East Flatbush building yesterday, police said.

The victim, in his 30s, was shot in the head on East 92nd Street near Avenue B and found at about 9:30 a.m., police said.

A witness said she had heard shots between 1 and 2 a.m. and spotted three shell casings on the ground.

“He had two daughters. He loved them dearly. He’d do anything for them,” said the victim’s brother-in-law, who declined to be identified by name.

The victim, who had just put up a Christmas tree for his kids, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

“This is not right,” the brother-in-law said. “My two nieces are going to grow up without a father.”

The Bronx

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Police are looking for the thief pictured above who robbed an Edenwald store at gunpoint, authorities said.

The suspect entered the establishment at East 233rd Street and Grace Avenue Monday at 7:20 a.m. and demanded money, police said.

An employee forked over an undetermined sum of cash, police said.

Queens

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Police released a picture (above) of the suspect who they believe is responsible for shooting two people in Rochdale.

The suspect, in his late 30s, shot a 21-year-old man in the stomach and a 16-year-old boy in the leg on Nov. 9 on Guy Brewer Boulevard near 134th Avenue, police said.

The gunman fled in a silver Dodge Magnum station wagon, police said.

He’s about 6-foot-1 and sports a short afro, police said.