The Bronx
A man set a woman’s face on fire outside a Fordham Heights home, police said.
The suspect splashed alcohol on the 29-year-old woman before flicking a lighter and setting her on fire on Creston Avenue near East 183rd Street around 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 11, cops said.
The victim was taken to an area hospital for treatment of second-degree burns to her face.
No arrests have been made.
Brooklyn
Cops released photos of a suspected rapist/robber and an accomplice in a sex attack and heist at a Bedford-Stuyvesant tattoo parlor.
Surveillance shows a woman getting buzzed into Inkstastic on Ralph Avenue, near Jefferson Avenue, around 2 a.m. last Friday.
Once inside, she stepped aside, letting a gunman and another man armed with a knife rush into the parlor, where they forced workers and customers into a back room and ordered them to the floor, police said.
The thieves stole wallets, cash, credit cards, cell phones, a gold chain and a watch, according to cops.
The gunman, wearing a dark hoodie and blue jeans, raped a 23-year-old customer before fleeing, police said.
He then jumped into a Nissan Maxima with the knife-wielding robber and the woman who let them inside, police said.
The suspected rapist was carrying a silver handgun and is believed to be in his 20s.
He is about 5-foot-9 and weighs about 170 pounds.
Manhattan
A man claiming to be an undercover cop convinced a teen at a Greenwich Village eatery to hand over his wallet before stealing the victim’s cash, authorities said.
The thief approached the 19-year-old man and his friend as they were sitting inside the Maoz Vegetarian restaurant on Eighth Street around 8 p.m. last Dec. 15 and identified himself as an undercover police officer, cops said.
The suspect allegedly ordered the teen to turn over his wallet and ID.
The victim complied and handed the con man his money before the crook handed some of it back to him and fled the restaurant, cops said.
Queens
A coldhearted thief took advantage of the polar vortex to rob a Maspeth church of more than $8,000, police said.
Two employees from a security company drove up to the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church to pick up cash and checks on 56th Road around noon Tuesday, cops said.
One worker went inside for the pickup while another stayed in the truck, police said.
A man wearing all black tip-toed through the blowing snow and stealthily slashed a rear tire, cops said.
When the security company worker returned with a bag full of loot, he noticed the tire going flat and began to change it.
While the two workers toiled in the howling winds, the thief returned and grabbed the money bag from the truck, cops said.
The workers drove off before noticing the money was missing.
Cops got surveillance footage of the incident, but no arrests have been made.
A 20-year-old man was knifed in a road-rage incident on snow-filled roads in Corona, cops said.
The victim was driving a Chevy Suburban on 108th Street and Horace Harding Expressway at 1:20 a.m. Wednesday with four passengers when a white SUV pulled up next to them and the drivers began arguing, according to police.
The victim became nervous and crashed into a fence along the service road, cops said.
The other driver got out of his vehicle and stabbed the victim three times in the arm and leg, police said.
The victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was in stable condition. No arrests have been made.