Manhattan
A driver has been charged with DWI after turning the Holland Tunnel into a bumper-car ride, law-enforcement sources said.
Robert Castronovo, 31, of Secaucus, NJ, was driving west when he bounced his 2006 Jeep off the walls and curbs of the tunnel and then smashed into the back of another car, the sources said.
Port Authority police pulled him over at around 6 p.m. Sunday after spotting an open container of booze in his car, authorities said.
He blew a .27 on a Breathalyzer test, more than three times the legal limit of .08, the sources added.
The banged-up Jeep was towed and Castronovo was charged with driving while intoxicated, having an open container of alcohol inside a car and reckless driving. Amazingly, no one was injured in the incident.
Two young sisters visiting from California were held up at gunpoint by masked men in Central Park, police said.
The victims, 16 and 22, were smoking cigarettes on a bench near West 107th Street at around 9:45 p.m. Sunday, when the two thugs asked them for the time, cops said.
The men left, but soon returned wearing masks.
One of them pulled a gun and robbed the sisters of their cellphones and a wallet with $40, police said.
No one was injured and no arrests had been made as of Monday night.
Brooklyn
A brave bodega worker in East New York managed to defend his store from a would-be thief who claimed he had a gun, authorities said.
The robber walked into Joseph’s Deli and Grocery Corp. on Pitkin Avenue near Jerome Street at around 8:30 p.m. Nov. 28, and told the clerk he was armed and would shoot if he didn’t get cash, cops said.
When the employee called his bluff, the robber reached over the counter for the register, police said.
The worker fought off the crook, who fled empty-handed, cops said.
The suspect is about 5-foot-9 and 160 pounds. He was wearing a white baseball cap, a black hoodie and jeans.
The Bronx
Cops are looking for a burglar who hopped over the iron security gate of a home in Belmont, police said.
The thief was caught on surveillance cameras, vaulting the gate on East 187th Street near Bathgate Avenue on Nov. 30, cops said. He broke in and helped himself to electronics and tools, according to cops.
No one was injured and no arrests have been made.