Brooklyn
■A thief snatched a woman’s iPhone on a subway train in Brighton Beach, police said.
At 10:50 a.m. on Aug. 10, the suspect boarded a southbound Q train at Ocean Parkway, ripped the phone from the hands of a 19-year-old victim and fled, cops said.
He was wearing a red ÂT-shirt, black shorts and white sneakers.
â– A man was killed by a single bullet to the head in a Vinegar Hill housing project, authorities said.
Raymond Ayala, 37, was found unresponsive in the lobby of his building in the Farragut Houses on Sands Street just before 1:30 a.m. Friday, according to cops.
First responders rushed Ayala to Brooklyn Hospital Center, where he died.
Police sources said Ayala was a known Latin Kings gang member with several prior arrests. Authorities have yet to identify a suspect or motive.
 The Bronx
â– A female robber pepper-sprayed a woman in the face and swiped her cellphone in Soundview, cops said.
The thief approached the 27-year-old victim at Westchester and Wheeler avenues just before midnight on July 7 and asked for the time, according to police.
When the victim took out her phone to check, the perpetrator grabbed it and sprayed her, authorities said.
The victim received hospital treatment for minor injuries, cops said.
The robber sports a long, dark ponytail, stands Â5-foot-3 and wore a black hat, a dark shirt and blue-jean shorts.
â– An armed, masked robber didn’t get much from a Melrose clothing store, Âauthorities said.
He walked into Black Era on Melrose Avenue near East 150th Street at 10 a.m. on Aug. 5 and ordered the owner to fill a backpack with money, according to cops.
The owner forked over $100 but the greedy goon then demanded that the proprietor throw in a pair of sneakers, police said.
Before the owner could comply, an alarm went off and he was able to grab the gun away from the thug, authorities said.
A good Samaritan then chased the disarmed thief out of the store, cops said.
The robber was last seen wearing all black.
 Manhattan
â– Cops are looking for four robbers believed to be responsible for three thefts in 35 minutes on the Lower East Side.
The gang of two men and two women knocked a Â29-year-old victim to the ground at 11:45 p.m. Wednesday near Cherry and Rutgers streets, authorities said.
The suspects punched the victim and stole his bracelet and $40, police said.
Cops said the goons struck again a half-hour later, pulling a gun on a man and a woman sitting in East River Park.
Neither victim was harmed, but the thieves fled with the woman’s purse, authorities said.
Five minutes later, the group held up an 18-year-old man in the park, snatching the victim’s watch, according to police.
The thieves are believed to be between 18 and 20 years old.
■Here’s another reason to quit smoking.
A man puffing on a cigarette in the lobby of a Harlem apartment building drew the attention of plainclothes cops, who found a loaded handgun in his possession, police said.
Officers responding to reports of a disorderly crowd at the building on St. Nicholas Avenue near West 113th Street at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday spotted one of the stragglers, 22-year-old nicotine fiend Thomas Green, light up and walk into the lobby, authorities said.
When cops approached Green and told him butts were banned in the building, the smoker tried to bolt, according to police.
The officers quickly grabbed Green and during the struggle a loaded Rohm Gesellschaft .38 caliber handgun fell from his waistband, authorities said.
Green was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal trespass with a firearm and resisting arrest.
â– Burglars swiped a safe containing thousands in cash from a Central Park cafe, police sources said.
A clerk arriving for work at the Knish Nosh cafe near East 74th Street at 6 a.m. Monday realized the side door was ajar, according to sources.
He alerted the owner of the cafe, who found that the safe had been pried loose from its floor bolts, the sources said.
Work boots and a pickax were recovered at the scene, police sources said.
The safe contained between $15,000 and $17,000, said authorities.