Manhattan
Two armed thieves tried to hold up a man on the Upper West Side early yesterday but fled empty handed, authorities said.
The victim told police that he was accosted on West 70th Street near Columbus Avenue at about 4 a.m. and that he was not injured, police said.
Brooklyn
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An office cleaner stabbed a co-worker in broad daylight on a Brooklyn Heights park bench yesterday, and later, his lawyer beside him, turned himself in, cops said.
The alleged attack took place at 12:15 p.m. in front of the Colonie bar and restaurant on Atlantic Avenue near Henry Street.
The victim was listed in stable condition last night at Lutheran Medical Center, authorities said.
Charges were pending last night, but the motive for the attack remained unclear, they added.
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A thief escaped with a hospital worker’s designer pocketbook in Sunset Park, police sources said.
The Lutheran Medical Center employee told police that she put her Kenneth Cole purse in an office drawer during a bathroom break at 3:40 p.m. Nov. 19, the sources said.
She later found it missing, along with her credit cards, black Samsung cellphone and $70 in cash, the sources added.
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Three suspects boosted six handbags from a car in Sheepshead Bay, cops said.
Robert Drach, 35, allegedly hurled a cement block through a window of a Toyota on East 19th Street at 12:30 a.m. Nov. 29.
Landon Jones, 41, then grabbed the purses and handed them to Kristee Delgado, 36, police said.
The trio was arrested and charged with criminal mischief, petit larceny and possession of stolen property, records show.
The Bronx
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The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau is seeking the public’s help in finding a police impersonator who shot a man during a robbery, police said.
The suspect, pictured here, allegedly knocked on the door of a Crotona Avenue home in Fordham at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 30 and flashed a shield and gun.
He demanded cash and shot the 41-year-old occupant in the right thigh as he tried to run away, according to police.
The victim was treated at St. Barnabas Medical Center and released.
The suspect was described as in his early 30s, 5-foot-8 and 190 pounds.
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Police have arrested a suspect in a knife-point robbery that literally left a restaurant manager in a bind, authorities said.
Edgar Morales, 26, ambushed the manager of The Famous Jimbo’s Hamburger Palace, on East 163rd Street and Southern Boulevard in Foxhurst, as he opened at 5 a.m. Nov. 23, records show.
“Open the door! Don’t do anything else, or I’ll stab you!” Morales allegedly snarled before forcing his way in and tying the manager to a chair.
Morales fled with a cellphone, an undisclosed amount of cash from the manager and about $3,000 from the cash register, according to the records.
Cops caught up with him Nov. 27. His charges include burglary, robbery and grand larceny, and he was being held last night in lieu of $10,000 bail, the records show.
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A man was slashed with a beer bottle — for accidentally bumping into two strangers, cops said.
The man was walking on West Fordham Road near Davidson Avenue in Fordham Manor at 3:40 a.m. Nov. 23 when he stumbled into one of the suspects, court records show.
Instead of accepting the man’s apology, Heriberto Rosas-Francisco, 26, and his unidentified pal went berserk, the records say.
The alleged accomplice sneered, “Well, it’s your problem now,” before head-butting the man, and Rosas-Francisco smashed a beer bottle on a wall and cut him, the court papers claim.
They then fled, but Rosas-Francisco was arrested nearby and charged with assault, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment, police said.
The victim required four staples at a local hospital to close a gash in his back and side, according to the records.
The alleged accomplice was still at large last night.
Staten Island
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A gunman killed a relative of his and wounded the victim’s roommate, police said.
Tyrell Jackson, 24, allegedly confronted Joseph Brown, 20, and Jamal Porter, 21, at 6 a.m. Friday outside their first-floor apartment on Bodine Street.
Brown was fatally shot in the back. Porter was hospitalized with a bullet wound to the stomach.
Jackson was arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, burglary and weapon possession, police said.
The relationship between him and Brown was not immediately clear.