Queens
â– Cops are hunting for two thieves who stole bicycles from two Astoria apartment buildings.
The pair gained access to an underground parking garage of a building at 35th Avenue and 30th Street at about 7:40 a.m. June 17 and removed a blue Cannondale mountain bike that was chained to a rack, according to police.
Then, in a crime caught on surveillance video at 8:30 p.m. June 26, the same two men forced open the basement door of another building, at 30th Avenue and 37th Street, and stole a Trek mountain bike, cops said.
■A gang of sneaky thieves made off with $4,000 from a woman’s home in Far Rockaway, cops said Sunday.
The 37-year-old woman withdrew cash from the Bank of America branch at Central and Washington avenues in nearby Cedarhurst, LI, at around 12:15 a.m. May 1, police said.
The crooks, believed to be two men and two women, tailed the victim as she made the six-minute drive from the bank to her home, according to police.
Once the victim got into her house, there was a knock at the door.
One of the crooks told the woman that she had dropped some money near her car, police said.
When the victim went to pick up the bills that the thieves had dropped as a decoy, one of the men went inside the house and snatched an envelope full of cash from her purse, cops said.
The four thieves fled in a Chrysler Pacifica.
Staten Island
â– Police on Sunday released a picture of a thug who is wanted in the screwdriver stabbing of a good Samaritan who tried to break up a fight between the creep and his girlfriend.
The 36-year-old victim spotted John Mathews, 34, in a heated argument with the woman near the Annadale railroad station at around 3:45 a.m. Friday, according to police.
The would-be hero approached the raging beau, who then went after him, cops said.
Mathews pulled out a screwdriver and stabbed the man in the back several times, police said.
A bouncer at the nearby Play Sports Bar rushed over as the attacker fled in a 2003 Lexus.
The quick-thinking bar employee wrote down the car’s license-plate number, according to law-enforcement sources.
Cops traced the registration to a nearby home, but Matthews was nowhere to be found, police said.
The victim was treated at Staten Island University North Hospital for non-life-threatening puncture wounds, according to police.
Police are on the hunt for Mathews, who is described as 5-foot-11 and 160 pounds.
â– A man has been charged with stealing electronics from New Springville stores over seven months, authorities said Sunday.
The shoplifting spree began in November, when William Brown, 57, and three other people swiped two iPods from a Target display case, according to a Criminal Court complaint.
Brown returned to the same store at 6:43 p.m. May 4 — again with three cohorts — and distracted an employee while the other crooks lifted four iPod Touches worth more than $1,000, the complaint states.
The gang struck again at around 4:30 p.m. May 25 at a Sears in the Staten Island Mall, where Brown was a lookout while two accomplices fled with eight Samsung tablets, the complaint states.
Brown was busted Wednesday and slapped with charges of grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and petit larceny, according to a spokesman for DA Dan Donovan.
Brooklyn
â– Police on Sunday were on the hunt for three people who ripped off an AT&T cellphone store in Sheepshead Bay.
The trio entered the store on Kings Highway near Coney Island Avenue at around 2 p.m. June 13, according to law-enforcement sources.
The first of the three thieves, believed to be a 27-year-old man approximately 5-foot-9 and 160 pounds, walked around the store opening all the display cases, according to police.
An accomplice, a man approximately 25 years old, followed behind, grabbing merchandise, cops said.
The second man lifted Bluetooth headphones, phone cases and portable speakers, police said.
They then handed some of the stolen goods to a woman, believed to be approximately 28 years old, 5-foot-5 and 130 pounds, before all three fled, according to police.