Manhattan
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A 76-year-old man who had recently had hip surgery was using a walker to cross a Kips Bay street early yesterday when he was fatally struck by a vehicle driven by a 72-year-old woman, cops said.
Pietro Palumbo was crossing East 23rd Street near Second Avenue at about 1:10 a.m. when a westbound 1997 Acura sent him, “literally, 20 feet flying into the air,” according to witness Josh Fox.
“He just came down and smashed the windshield and went straight to the ground,” said Fox, 35.
Palumbo died at Bellevue Hospital. The unidentified driver remained at the scene. Cops said no criminality was suspected.
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A creep suspected of shooting upskirt videos of eight women is under arrest, authorities said.
A transit cop spotted Jimmy Gonzales, 35, checking out his pervy flicks on his cellphone aboard a subway train at Grand Central Station on May 5, court papers state.
Gonzales can be seen allegedly placing his backpack — with the camera-equipped cellphone inside — below two standing women.
After admitting that he had similarly recorded six others, he was arrested on eight counts of unlawful surveillance, court records show.
Brooklyn
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A 25-year-old man was gunned down in East New York, police said.
The man, whose name was withheld pending notification of next of kin, was found shot in the head outside 801 Dumont Ave., near Van Siclen Avenue, at about 8:55 p.m. Thursday. He died at Brookdale Hospital.
A gun was recovered near the scene, but it was not immediately clear whether it was the murder weapon, cops said.
They added that the victim was charged with weapon possession last year.
Queens
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Police are seeking the young man pictured here for allegedly groping a woman in Flushing.
He followed his 27-year-old victim into a building on 38th Avenue on May 13 and placed his hand between her legs, investigators said.
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A man was arrested yesterday at La Guardia Airport for allegedly trying to take the blade in the picture below aboard a plane, authorities said.
Ariel Roman, 29, of Kew Garden Hills, had the knuckle knife in his carry-on bag as he passed a checkpoint metal detector, said a Port Authority police spokesman.
Roman, who had been headed to Miami on an America Airlines flight, was charged with weapons possession, said a TSA spokeswoman.
The Bronx
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The third time was definitely not the charm for this brazen bandit.
Cops said they caught the sticky-fingered crook only after he had swiped laptops from public libraries in Wakefield and Concourse Village.
Lance Jones, 45, checked out a Hewlett Packard laptop worth in excess of $1,000 from a library on Morris Avenue on March 8 — and sold it for $90 to the superintendent of a nearby building, cops said.
Nearly three weeks later, on March 27, he grabbed a laptop that had been left unattended on a table in the Lowerre Place branch of the library and stuffed it into a bag before again walking out, court records show.
Jones was busted Monday when librarians spotted him waltzing back into one of the branches, cops said.
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Ignoring a judge’s order to stay away, a brute shoved his way into his ex-girlfriend’s Concourse apartment and tried to choke her, authorities said.
Ralph Mazyck, 54, showed up at the woman’s Anderson Avenue building at about 9:35 p.m. Tuesday and demanded to be let in, according to court papers.
When she refused him entry and instead tried to close the door, he allegedly busted it down and grabbed her by the neck while snarling, “I will kill you, bitch!”
He was taken into custody later that night.
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A miffed motorist attacked a traffic agent in Marble Hill, authorities said.
Latarsha Terry, 31, had illegally parked her gold Acura at a bus stop on West Kingsbridge Road at about 10:30 p.m. on May 12, court papers state.
The agent was writing up a summons when Terry allegedly ran out of a nearby grocery store and jumped onto the front of the car in an attempt to hide her registration.
She then got into the car and drove off — but struck the agent’s foot with one a tire, court papers state.
Investigators tracked Terry down through the Acura’s license plate and arrested her Monday, cops said.