Manhattan
Police are searching for this Midtown bank bandit (above), who threatened a female teller, only to wind up fleeing empty-handed.
The crook strolled up to the 26-year-old teller in the Chase branch on Seventh Avenue near West 37th Street at 3:25 p.m. Friday and slipped her a demand note, officials said.
The handwritten note read, “This is a robbery, hand over all cash except bait money. You have 15 seconds or else the customers!”
The teller told him that she would be right back and started walking away, prompting the thug to shout, “No, this is serious!”
But the would-be thief then became nervous and fled. He was described as a 5-foot-7, 180-pound Hispanic man in his 30s, wearing a white crew-neck T-shirt, blue bandanna around his neck, blue jeans, black sneakers and a braided bracelet.
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A 15-year-old girl was raped in Washington Heights by an older teen she used to date, police said.
The victim was at a pal’s apartment Friday watching a soccer game with a group of friends, including her 18-year-old ex.
She remembers having a few drinks and then waking up in his home, she told cops.
Police were notified, and the suspect told them he had sex with the girl and she had to be held up at one point because she was so intoxicated.
The Post is withholding the name of the suspect to protect the identity of the victim.
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A drunken intruder had to smash a window to escape after slipping into a swanky Manhattan eatery, police said.
Louis Franco, 20, got into Calle Ocho on Columbus Avenue near West 82nd Street at about 12:15 a.m. yesterday, police said.
Ten minutes later, cops from the 20th Precinct just around the corner spotted him inside the eatery kicking at the glass door from the inside, officials said.
They grabbed him after the door shattered and he had crawled out, sources said.
Police said nothing had been taken, but a desk had been overturned.
Franco, who was intoxicated, was arrested and charged with burglary and criminal mischief, police said.
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A creep was nabbed after he followed a Harlem woman into her home and groped her, said a rep for Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr.
Marc Anton Juarez, 18, slipped behind his victim as she strolled into her residence on East 116th Street near Park Avenue at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said.
The assailant then followed the woman to her apartment and pinned her against the door before she was able to get inside her home, police said.
He groped her from behind and tried to flee, but police were called and busted him at the scene, officials said.
He was charged with burglary and sexual abuse.
Brooklyn
A teenager was stabbed to death yesterday in a possibly gang-related attack in Canarsie, police sources said.
The 18-year-old youth, whose name was withheld pending notification of his family, was knifed in the chest by an unknown assailant at about 2 p.m. on Flatlands Avenue near East 104th Street.
The stabber fled.
Queens
Moments after gun-toting Taquan Mack, and Dominic Caraballo, both 22, knocked off a Richmond Hill jewelry store in broad daylight yesterday, an NYPD lieutenant and a police officer nearby heard the robbery report over their radios. They quickly nabbed Caraballo with a bag of baubles, police said.
Minutes later, two more cops grabbed Mack as he was running away with a second bag of jewelry.
Both were charged with robbery.
All of the jewelry, valued at $15,000 was recovered.
The robbery occurred at 11:18 p.m. in Punjab Jewelers on 101st Avenue near Lefferts Avenue in South Richmond Hill.
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A traffic agent doling out summonses in Briarwood was left stranded after the tires on his official car were slashed, police sources said.
The agent parked his marked NYPD car on 139th Street near 87th Avenue at 5 p.m. Friday, before beginning his job.
He walked a block away and issued a ticket for a blocked driveway.
When he returned to his car, he found two flat tires on the passenger said.
Police are reviewing surveillance video for clues to the vandal.
Staten Island
Two Tompkinsville thieves fled empty-handed after their victim fought back — then were caught by cops, police said.
Lenny Bishop, 17, and a 15-year-old pal, whose name was not released, accosted the 20-year-old man on Victory Boulevard near Bay Street at 10:40 p.m. Friday, authorities said.
Bishop knocked the victim to the ground and barked, “Give me your wallet!” police said.
The suspects fled when the plucky man challenged them.
They were both later nabbed.
Bishop was charged with attempted robbery, assault and harassment. His buddy faces an attempted-robbery rap.