Metro

Daily Blotter

The Bronx

â–  Cops are asking for help identifying a driver who they say plowed into a woman in Port Morris and left her clinging to life.

The 50-year-old woman was on Bruckner Boulevard at East 138th Street at about 1 p.m. Monday when the driver made a U-turn from the northbound side to the southbound side of Bruckner, struck the victim and fled, according to police.

The woman was left bloodied on the street before emergency responders rushed her to Lincoln Hospital in critical condition, authorities said.

The vehicle appears to be a white sedan, possibly a Chevy Impala, with a dark-colored front passenger quarter panel and a dark bumper.


 Brooklyn

â–  A teen was gunned down at his Brownsville public housing complex, authorities said.

Donnell Russell, 18, was found with a single gunshot wound to his chest behind a building in the Tilden Houses on Livonia Avenue, near Watkins Street, on Monday just after 7:30 p.m., according to cops.

The victim, who lived in a nearby building, was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, but he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Investigators did not immediately have a motive or a description of the suspect in the slaying.


 Manhattan

â–  A man had his cellphone swiped from his hand after dozing off on a bench in a Soho subway station.

The 37-year-old fell asleep Sunday at about 6:30 a.m. at the West Houston Street station on the No. 1 line. When he awoke, the phone was gone.

â–  A thief snatched a wallet and made off with more than $1,000 worth of valuables from a woman who was distracted while checking out magazines at a newsstand in a Tribeca subway station, sources said.

The 20-year-old set her Rag and Bone wallet down Sunday at about 12:45 p.m., while browsing the publications in the IRT Chambers Street station at West Broadway.

A man grabbed the wallet, which contained $300 cash, credit cards, gift cards from Sephora and DKNY, an American Airlines Executive card and other items worth $1,130 in all, sources said.

■ His instincts were correct, too bad he didn’t act on them.

A man who became suspicious when a parking attendant stopped his car before putting it into a Financial District garage had his $10,800 Rolex watch taken, sources said.

The 30-year-old brought his 2012 white four-door BMW to a garage on 75 Water St. Saturday at about 6:30 p.m. and handed it over to the parking attendant. The car owner said he saw the attendant looking through the car while stopped in the street moments later, sources added.

When he returned an hour later, the watch was missing. No arrests have been made.

■ Cops are searching for two people who attempted to rob a Kips Bay McDonald’s at gunpoint early Tuesday.

The armed suspect, believed to be in his early 20s, held a pistol to a 37-year-old clerk’s head at about 3:35 a.m. at the fast- food joint on First Avenue near East 23rd Street, according to police.

He took the woman to a back room and demanded cash, but fled empty-handed, cops said.

A female accomplice in her 20s acted as a lookout, according to police.

A couple of customers were in the restaurant at the time, but they were not hurt, cops said.

â–  A Chinese tourist was robbed by a licensed hack who locked her inside his car after a ride from Kennedy Airport to Midtown, a police source said.

The 33-year-old tourist arrived from Hong Kong on Aug. 6 at about 1:35 a.m. and was met by a stranger at the airport who offered her a ride and threw her bags into his trunk, the source added.

The victim asked how much it would cost and the driver told her $60, the woman later told police.

She hopped into the car and saw there was a second man in the front passenger seat.

The duo, Anthony Garricks, 47, and Alvin Rampersaud, 53, took her to West 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue and allegedly locked her inside the car while demanding $260, the police source said.

The tourist forked over $200, but the greedy bullies became more aggressive and wanted $200 more, the source added.

The men told her they would drive her somewhere else if she didn’t pay, but let her go when she wouldn’t give any more cash, the sources said.

Garricks and Rampersaud were arrested the next day and charged with robbery and unlawful imprisonment.

â–  A man was fatally shot in an East Harlem apartment building Tuesday, cops said.

The 29-year-old victim was discovered dead inside the East River Houses on East 102nd Street near First Avenue, around 1:05 p.m., cops said.

Police did not find any witnesses and had no description of the gunman.