Manhattan
Armed with a metal bat, James Willis, 41, attacked an unidentified 37-year-old man shortly after 8:30 a.m. on June 24 at 132nd Street near Madison Avenue.
“Yo, I hate you f – – -ers. I told you to stay off my block,” he shouted, according to court papers.
Willis punched the man in the face while hurling slurs, then broke his elbow with the bat, police said.
He was charged with assault as a hate crime.
A driver has been busted for allegedly attacking a cabby. Abodunde Abidekun, 25, flew into a rage when he was cut off by a taxi on the West Side Highway near 54th Street at 2 p.m. on March 27.
He allegedly jumped out of his car, punched the driver in the face, snatched his cellphone and took off.
The cabby followed and the two tangled again near West 96th Street.
This time, Abidekun allegedly dragged the cabby from his vehicle, snatched his keys from the ignition and fled again, according to court papers. He faces charges of robbery and petit larceny.
Brooklyn
Stephen Relder, 46, and Robert Cranston, 35, grabbed two bottles of malt liquor off a shelf in the store at Flatbush Avenue and Lincoln Road at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.
As they allegedly tried to leave without paying, the manager confronted them.
Cranston pulled a screwdriver while Relder grabbed a barbecue fork and ordered the manager to back off, cops said.
The suspects dropped the malt liquor and fled, but were soon captured.
A man stabbed an estranged pal in the back with an ice pick, authorities said yesterday.
Nelson Nieves, 27, clashed with his friend, also 27, at Willoughby Avenue near Evergreen Avenue at 12:40 a.m. Wednesday in Bushwick.
Nieves allegedly pulled the ice pick and stabbed his ex-pal in the back.
Nieves fled but surrendered later that day.
The victim, who had once dated Nieves’ girlfriend, was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
A man beat his boss with a steel bar in Red Hook, authorities said yesterday.
Sources say Carlos Cintron, 40, flew into a rage at his place of employment, on Seabring Street near Van Brunt Street, last Friday when his boss, 52, said pay would be late.
He grabbed the bar and knocked his boss to the ground with a blow to the head, then kept pounding away, police said.
Cintron ran off, but was captured Wednesday, police said. The victim received stitches.
A school-bus driver was arrested for allegedly molesting a handicapped child in Bensonhurst.
Police said the driver’s female assistant escorted children into a school on 23rd Avenue near 60th Street in Bensonhurst at 8 a.m., on June 25.
When she returned, she found driver Efim Bondarev, 62 sexually abusing a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl, cops said.
The assistant walked into the 66th Precinct station house in Borough Park the next day and reported the alleged crime.
Bondarev, of Coney Island, was arrested Wednesday.
Staten Island
Police say 300-pound, 6-foot-tall Patricia Artist, 47, was charged with whipping her daughter on June 26, in their home on Henderson Avenue near Chappell Street.
She was arrested shortly after 5 a.m. Wednesday.
She faces charges of assault, weapons possession and child endangerment.