Manhattan
â– An early morning robbery at a Greenwich Village diner turned into a gun battle between two rival groups, with at least one person being shot, authorities said.
The chaos began as one of the groups was sitting inside the Good Stuff Diner on West 14th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues just after 5 a.m. Tuesday when the second group walked in.
After a brief exchange of words, one of the males in the second group went to the restroom and came out with a gun in his hand before walking over and snatching a chain from around the neck of a man in the rival group.
The melee quickly spilled outside, with members of both groups pulling out guns and firing at each other from across 14th Street.
One of the shot individuals fled in a yellow cab.
A man fitting the victim’s description walked into St. Barnabas Hospital in The Bronx with a gunshot wound at around 6:15 a.m. and has been uncooperative with police.
No arrests have been made.
The Bronx
â– A pervert exposed himself to three little girls playing in front of their Claremont Village apartment building before trying to follow them inside, authorities said.
The suspect approached the children, ranging in age from 6 to 8 years old, on Stebbins Avenue near East 170th Street at about 5:15 p.m. last Friday and flashed the girls, cops said.
The suspect is believed to be between 18 and 20, about 5-foot-7 and 140 pounds. He was last seen wearing a red polo shirt and blue jeans
â– This man is suspected of robbing a Mott Haven GameStop at gunpoint last weekend, stealing a PlayStation 3 and $2,000 in cash, authorities said.
The thief walked into the video-game store on Westchester Avenue near Third Avenue Sunday at about 7:15 p.m. wearing a black bucket hat and a sunglasses before pulling a gun on the clerk, cops said.
The suspect led the employee to a rear stockroom before tying him up and ripping the wires out of the shop’s surveillance cameras.
Queens
â– A 15-year-old boy was shot early Tuesday in Rockaway Park, cops said.
The victim was on Beach Channel Drive and Beach 81 Street at about 4:40 a.m. when the two bicyclists approached him, according to police.
The suspects chased him up the stairs of a building and opened fire between the fifth and sixth floors, cops said.
The victim was rushed to St. John’s Hospital with a gunshot wound to the right leg.
Brooklyn
â– A thief went on a shopping spree with a stolen debit card at a Downtown Brooklyn jewelry store, authorities said.
The suspect went to World of Jewelry on Fulton Street on June 10 at about 5:30 p.m. and bought multiple necklaces, bracelets and watches valued at about $1,000, cops said.
The suspect is described as being a black male in his late teens or early 20s.
â– This was no superhero.
A thief wearing a Batman shirt was seen stealing an unattended bag from a McDonald’s in Coney Island, authorities said.
The suspect was lurking around the Neptune Avenue restaurant on June 5 at about 8:30 p.m. when he spotted the black backpack left behind by the victim and fled.
Police described the thief as a partially bald male in his 40s.