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The Bronx

A man was shot with a BB gun in Fordham.

The 42-year-old man was inside his car on East 182th Street, near Washington Avenue, Sunday at about 3:30 p.m., when an unknown assailant opened fire, breaking his car window and striking him once in the arm, cops said.

The victim suffered minor bruising. It’s not clear what prompted the attack.


Brooklyn

A 20-year-old woman was shot in the chest in East New York.

The victim told cops she didn’t see anyone approach as a gunman opened fire on Pennsylvania Avenue, near Vandalia Avenue, around 11:45 p.m. Sunday.

The victim was struck once in the chest and rushed to Brookdale Hospital in serious condition, authorities said.

The woman is expected to survive. It was not immediately clear if she was the intended target.

A man was shot in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Saturday, police said.

An unidentified assailant squeezed off several rounds on Sterling Place, near Rochester Avenue, around 3 a.m., hitting the victim in the ankle and calf, police said.

The 26-year-old man was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition.


Manhattan

A man was slashed in a random attack as he left Joe’s Crab Shack in Harlem, police said.

The 31-year-old victim was leaving the restaurant, when an attacker sliced him several times on West 126th Street, near Saint Nicholas Avenue, Sunday at about 7 p.m.

The victim was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital with superficial wounds, authorities said.

An elderly man in Midtown was caught cashing two fraudulent checks worth $105,000, cops said.

Anthony Phillip, 77, was arrested Thursday for cashing two checks at a Chase bank on West 55th Street and Seventh Avenue on April 27, cops said.

Police caught up with the alleged geriatric thief and arrested him on grand larceny charges.

Two men were shot with a BB gun outside a Harlem bodega after an argument, cops said.

The gunman got into a fight Sunday night inside a store in the vicinity of Lenox Avenue and West 111th Street and was escorted out, cops said. The irate would-be customer threatened, “I’m going to come back and kill you,” according to police.

About an hour later, he opened fire on the store with his pellet gun hitting a 23-year-old in the chest and a 47-year-old in the forehead, cops said.


Queens

A 38-year-old man was shot in Jamaica on Sunday.

The victim was on 164th Street at about 10:10 p.m. when he was struck in the leg and the torso, cops said.

He was taken to Jamaica Hospital and no arrests have been made.


Staten Island

A victim of a racial bias crime on the night President Obama was elected in 2008 was caught smoking pot in Clifton, authorities said.

Alie Kamara, 23, was busted smoking a joint outside the Park Hill Apartment Houses near Sobel Court on May 19 at about 9:15 p.m., a Criminal Court complaint states.

Kamara struggled with police, the court complaint alleges.

When cops searched him, they found four bags of pot in his left vest pocket, records state.

He was charged with resisting arrest and pot possession.

When Kamara was 17, he was attacked by a group of white men with a metal pipe in “retaliation” for Obama’s election.

Three men were convicted in connection with the violence that also left a white man, Ronald Forte, 38, with brain damage because the attackers thought he was black.

A man who had drugs and cash stolen from him was arrested for holding the thief hostage in Dongan Hills authorities said.

Thomas Santagata, 28, threatened the 25-year-old man with a metal folding knife and forced him into a car on Garretson Avenue near Hancock Street on May 19 at 5:30 p.m., according to a Criminal Court complaint.

Santagata held the man captive in the car for five hours and demanded $200 for his safe return, authorities said.

The victim was released and Santagata was arrested, sources said.

It was unclear if anyone paid ransom.

Santagata was charged with unlawful imprisonment, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.

A Rosebank woman was arrested after failing to report her husband’s income while applying for rent subsidies, authorities said.

Dina Martin, 29, was busted Thursday after the Department of Investigation found that she wrongly received nearly $23,000 in rent benefits from November 2010 through December 2012.

She had filled out applications claiming she had to make ends meet on her own, while her husband had income, a Criminal Court complaint charges.

Martin was charged with grand larceny and falsifying business records, according to a spokesman for Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan.