Queens
A woman stole a purse and fled in a luxury vehicle in Flushing, cops said.
The 25-year-old victim had put down her purse to use the ladies room when the thief (above) snatched the purse at the Good Fortune restaurant on Kissena Boulevard near Laburnum Avenue at around noon on Nov. 30, police said.
The victim had just exited the bathroom when she saw the woman running out with her purse.
The suspect quickly hopped into a black 2013 Mercedes and fled.
Manhattan
Another woman lost her purse — a very expensive one — when two thieves sneaked up behind her in Midtown.
The 32-year-old victim was at West 30th Street and Eighth Avenue at 1:30 a.m. Thursday when the men approached and grabbed the $2,300 purse, police sources said.
She told cops the purse held $1,200 in cash and more than $100 worth of MAC makeup.
Police canvassed the area, but were unable to find the suspects.
The Bronx
A thug robbed a Morris Park cellphone store at knifepoint.
A 30-year-old female clerk was behind the register at the Metro PCS shop on Morris Park Avenue near White Plains Road at 7:20 p.m. Dec. 18 when the thief entered.
The man, armed with a knife, escorted her to the rear of the store and warned, “Stay in the back.”
He then opened the register and snatched $500 in cash, according to police sources.
Investigators believe the suspect is between 18 and 23. He was wearing a beige skull cap, brown Timberland boots, black jeans and a North Face jacket.
A Norwood man who whose neck was slashed over the summer has died five months after the brutal attack, and investigators have reclassified the case a homicide.
Maraj “Indio” Binnath, 51, was attacked with a boxcutter by Rusty Dejesus just after midnight July 22 in the Knox-Gates playground on West Mosholu Parkway, police said. He was rushed to Montefiore Hospital in critical condition.
Binnath clinged to life, but succumbed to his injuries on Dec. 16.
An autopsy ruled his death a homicide, and Dejesus, 37, who was originally charged with felony assault, now faces murder charges.
He has six prior arrests dating back to 1992, all involving controlled substances, cops said.
Staten Island
A 53-year-old man tried to set his family’s Charleston home on fire — using Christmas ornaments, law- enforcement sources said.
Anthony Wojcik got into an argument with relatives in the home on Pitney Avenue near Herrick Avenue at around 11 p.m. Wednesday and knocked over a television set and candlestick, according to a Criminal Court complaint.
He then allegedly threatened to burn down the house.
He threw things around the house and threatened to hurt his relatives before he barked, “I’m going to burn the house,” the documents state. He then grabbed a bowl of wooden holiday decorations and set them on fire, the documents charge.
He caused more than $250 in damage, and the family had to be evacuated from the home because of smoke, the sources said.
Wojcik has been charged with criminal mischief, harassment and arson, according to the complaint.
There were no injuries immediately reported.
Two men hurled a cement parking barrier through an Elm Park hookah-lounge window, nearly injuring the patrons inside, police sources said.
Larry Burris, 36, and Felipe Cediel, 22, were at the Myst Lounge on Forest Avenue near Ordell Avenue at around 11 p.m. Christmas Eve when they went outside, somehow hoisted the barrier and allegedly chucked it through the window.
The lounge was packed with people at the time of the incident, but no injuries were immediately reported, the sources said.
Burris and Cediel were charged with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, according to cops.
Brooklyn
A boozed-up Flatbush man threatened an EMT with a knife after his worried daughter called 911 to report that he was drinking, law-enforcement sources told The Post Thursday.
Badin Merson, 53, clashed with the 35-year-old EMT worker in his Argyle Road apartment at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, the sources said.
He shouted at the medic, “I drink. This is my house. I’m not going anywhere,” according to sources.
He then allegedly yelled at the worker to “get lost” and picked up a butcher knife as the EMT turned to leave — pitching it at him and hitting him in the back.
The EMT, who was not injured, called police.
Merson was busted on charges of menacing and attempted assault.