Manhattan
The man robbed two Manhattan banks just 45 minutes apart Saturday, police said.
The 5-foot-8, 165-pound crook first entered the Popular Community Bank at 134 Delancey St. on the Lower East Side at around 11:45 a.m., cops said.
Police said he handed a teller a note that stated: “This is a bank robbery. Give me $7,000 from your top draw, I have a gun.”
The teller turned over about $1,300, and the robber fled.
Then, at 12:22 p.m., the thief walked into the Capitol One Bank at 245 E. 34th St. in Murray Hill and passed a similar demand note to a teller, cops said. This time, he made off with about $1,000.
No gun was displayed in either incident.
A thief stole thousands of dollars from a Financial District bank and tried to rob two other Manhattan banks, police said Friday.
The skinny, middle-aged crook struck first at a Chase branch on Barclay Street near Greenwich Street at around 11 a.m. Jan. 25, cops said.
He slipped a 19-year-old teller a note that read, “This is a robbery. I have a gun,” sources said.
He then barked orders at the teller, screaming, “Give me the note back! Give me the money!” the sources said.
Frightened, the teller slid the note back to him along with $6,000, the sources said.
Then, on the morning of Feb. 18, the robber strode into a Bank of America on Third Avenue near East 62nd Street and passed a note to a teller, stating, “This is a robbery. Let me get all the 100s and 50s. Nobody gets hurt,” the sources said.
The teller strolled away, prompting the thief to dash out empty-handed.
Hours later, he tried to knock off a Chase Bank at West Fourth Street and Washington Place, but fled empty-handed again.
A woman was shot dead inside a Harlem housing project Sunday, authorities said.
Mendy Gashier’s bullet-riddled body was discovered lying in a sixth-floor hallway at the Saint Nicholas Houses on 129th Street at around 2 a.m., cops said.
Police said the victim left a trail of blood through the hallway before collapsing in front of a vacant apartment, presumably in a desperate effort to seek help.
Gashier, 24, was taken to Harlem Hospital and pronounced dead, cops said.
Police are questioning the son of a man who was found dead in his Harlem apartment, authorities said.
Clarke Meyers Sr., 61, was found with scratches on his chest, neck and head inside of his 129th Street home at around 4 p.m. Saturday, cops said.
Clarke Meyers Jr., 38, was brought in for questioning, but has not been charged.
The Bronx
An NYPD traffic-enforcement agent was charged with beating up another woman after she spotted her boyfriend dining with the victim at a Fairmont-Claremont Village restaurant, authorities said.
Terrise Grayson, 38, walked into the Back Home Jamaican Restaurant on East 169th Street at around 11 p.m. Saturday when she saw her man eating with a 40-year-old woman, cops said.
Grayson punched and kicked the woman about the face and body, sources said.
She was charged with assault and harassment.
Brooklyn
A man was found stabbed to death inside a Brownsville apartment building, authorities said.
Police found Michael Artist’s lifeless body bleeding out in the second-floor stairwell of a building at the Brownsville Houses on Dumont Avenue at around 2 a.m. Sunday.
Artist, 52, had been stabbed in the chest and arm, cops said. He was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Cops said no arrests have been made.
Staten Island
The man is wanted for stealing audio equipment from a Heartland Village department store, authorities said.
The thief entered a P.C. Richards on Richmond Avenue at around 6 p.m. Feb. 8 and removed a Bose sound system, according to police.
He then fled in a grey four-door sedan, cops said.