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The Bronx

An elderly woman was hospitalized after being hit in the eye with a stray can of soybeans thrown by a meathead at another jerk in a Bronx Park East grocery store, authorities said.

The alleged can thrower exchanged words with a foe in the Compare Food Store on White Plains Road near Brady Avenue at 1:30 p.m. on April 13.

The assailant then picked up the soybean container and threw it, cops said.

The thug’s aim was off, and he beaned a 69-year-old woman instead, according to police.

She was treated at Weiler Hospital for swelling around her eye, officials added.

The legume-lobbing attacker fled and is still at large, cops said.

He is believed to be in his early 20s, and was seen on surveillance video wearing a black jacket, brown pants and white sneakers.

A man robbed a 16-year-old boy at knifepoint in an elevator in the victim’s South Bronx apartment building, authorities said.

The brute followed the youth into the elevator of the building near Morris Avenue and East 149th Street at about 2:30 p.m. Sunday, pulled a knife and demanded the boy’s possessions, police said.

The teen forked over his iPhone 4, Nintendo 3DS and cash, cops said.

The robber fled the scene, and the victim wasn’t injured, officials said.

The suspect was seen on surveillance video wearing a black hoodie, blue jeans and black sneakers.

Cops arrested a suspect in a fatal Crotona shooting, authorities said.

Richard Washington, 28, gunned down Robert Corbett, 30, just before noon on April 15 on Southern Boulevard near Crotona Park East, police said.

Corbett, who lived in Belmont, was found with several gunshot wounds to the torso and pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital, authorities said.

Washington has several prior arrests on charges including assault, robbery and harassment, law- ­enforcement sources said.

A motive in the slaying wasn’t immediately known.


Queens

An off-duty NYPD sergeant was arrested after a dispute with a family member, authorities said.

Faride Francklin, 43, got into a physical altercation with the relative in their home in an undisclosed neighborhood at 10:40 p.m. Wednesday, sources said.

It’s not clear what sparked the altercation, in which Francklin allegedly attempted to throw the family member out of the house.

He was charged with third-degree assault, criminal mischief and aggravated harassment, all misdemeanors.


Manhattan

Someone stole the valuables of a Rainbow Room patron who had left them in a booth, according to law-enforcement sources.

The 30-year-old Bronx resident left his BlackBerry, iPhone, wallet and $100 in cash unattended at 5:20 a.m. Sunday and returned to find they had vanished.

No arrests have been made.

The honeymoon is over.

Two lovebirds visiting from Brazil wound up in the clink after a lovers’ quarrel turned violent in a Chelsea hostel, sources said.

José Costeza and his gal pal, Luiza Costa, 26, received a free tour of Central Booking after smacking each other around in the Chelsea International Hostel on West 20th Street at around 3 a.m. Sunday, sources said.

Both were charged with assault.

Two men and a woman mugged a food deliveryman at gunpoint in Harlem, authorities said.

On March 29, the victim had just dropped off an order at an apartment building on West 141st Street near Edgecombe Avenue when the thugs approached him, police said.

One of the robbers pulled a gun and demanded his cash, cops said.

The prudent victim handed over $500, and the three robbers took off, officials said. He was not ­injured.

Surveillance footage from an nearby deli caught images of the suspects, believed to be in their teens or early 20s, wearing dark hoodies.