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A man was fatally shot Tuesday morning while leaving a Queens karaoke club, police said.

The 31-year-old victim was getting into a waiting Uber after leaving Shangrila Karaoke on Fowler Avenue in Flushing around 2:35 a.m. Tuesday when a white Honda pulled up.

A masked man got out of the car and opened fire, shooting the victim six times in his head and body before hopping back in the vehicle, which then sped off, police and sources said.

Two hateful, N-word hurling partygoers beat a construction worker when he blocked them from taking a shortcut through his Hell’s Kitchen work site, authorities said Monday.

Klevis Vulaj — who’s also under investigation in a 2017 assault on a transgender woman — and Veton Balidemaj left a club on W. 47th St. and 11th Ave. around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, and tried to cut through the construction site a block away when they confronted the worker, police sources said.

A 19-year-old man was fatally shot in the back Friday afternoon in the Bronx, and the NYPD is now on the hunt for four suspects, officials confirmed to 1010WINS.

The victim, who was shot multiple times in the back, was transported to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. 

Four people were shot, one fatally, when a gunman opened fire in a Brooklyn housing complex Wednesday night, police said.

The victims were standing in a hallway of the building on Fulton Street near Utica Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant when shots rang out at about 10:30 p.m., police said.

“He’s going to kill the baby!”

A pregnant real estate agent was dragged screaming from her Queens apartment and stabbed to death in the vestibule of her building early Sunday as she pleaded for the life of her unborn child, witnesses and police sources said.

The killer targeted the 35-year-old woman’s stomach, according to the building super, who said she watched surveillance video footage that captured the murder.

A man was killed in a Queens subway station Sunday afternoon when a dispute that started on a train continued out onto the platform and ended in gunfire, police and sources said.

The victim was arguing with someone on a Southbound 7 train and got out at the 90th Street station where he was shot on the platform by the man he was fighting with at 12:50 p.m., sources said.

A man was shot and killed just outside a church in Brooklyn, cops said.

Police received a 911 call for an assault shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of Weirfield Street and Bushwick Avenue in Bushwick — just feet from the Church of God of Prophecy, police said.

Investigators are looking for the unhinged man who severely beat an elderly man in an attack that was caught on video, police said.

Wilfredo Arce, 62, was inside the lobby of a NYCHA building at 77 Tompkins Ave in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Friday around 6:15 p.m. when he was attacked by Lytee Knox Hundley, police said.

A man was stabbed in an apparent road-rage attack after honking his horn at a stopped car in Brooklyn on Thursday night, police said.

The 53-year-old man was driving his blue Volvo on 65th Street near West 5th Street in Bensonhurst at about 5:30 p.m. when he honked at a red Infiniti that was stopped near the intersection, authorities said.

A Brooklyn man headed to his mom’s home to discuss how to pay for his slain brother’s tombstone was shot dead Thursday just feet from her doorstep, police and the victim’s relatives said.

William Ortiz, 30, collapsed in the hallway outside his mom’s 13th-floor apartment in the Lafayette Gardens Houses in Clinton Hill at about 1:20 p.m

A good Samaritan stopped a stranger from raping a Fordham University student on a Bronx street this week, police said Thursday.

The 22-year-old victim was walking near East 189th Street and Belmont Avenue — roughly a half-mile from the Jesuit university — around 1:45 a.m. Wednesday when the creep approached and put her in a chokehold, cops said.

An off-duty cop was pistol-whipped in an attempted robbery on his way home from a shift early Thursday in the East Village, police sources said.

The 28-year-old officer was walking at 13th Street and Third Avenue around 5:45 a.m. when a would-be thief approached him, displayed a gun and demanded his cell phone, cops said.

A crazed man wielding a hammer walked into a Brooklyn seafood buffet restaurant late Tuesday afternoon and, in an unprovoked attack, beat three men in the head, one fatally, police said.

Fufai Pun, 34, a chef at the Seaport Buffet in Sheepshead Bay, was pronounced dead at a hospital, while the 60-year-old owner of the eatery and a 50-year-old manager were listed in critical condition Tuesday night.

Two men were shot, one fatally, while sitting in an Audi SUV in Queens, police said Monday.

A 911 caller told cops around 10:15 p.m. Sunday that shots were fired in the area of 114th Drive and 196th Street in St. Albans, police said.

A Queens woman was shot through an apartment window after her boyfriend answered a knock at their door, police and law enforcement sources said.

The 20-year-old woman and her 23-year-old boyfriend were inside their apartment on 163rd Street near Sanford Avenue around 4:45 a.m. Saturday when someone began pounding on their front door.

A man was fatally shot while confronting two masked men in a Brooklyn housing complex on Sunday afternoon, police said.

The 43-year-old man was inside an apartment at 219 Kingsborough 2nd Walk, a building within NYCHA’s Kingsborough Houses, around 1:35 p.m. when two strangers knocked on the door, police said.

A stranger broke into an East Village woman’s apartment, raped her, robbed her and left her bound with duct tape in a horrific attack, police and sources said Sunday.

After spending Friday night at the Knitting Factory, a Brooklyn concert venue, the 20-year-old woman was fast asleep in her East 14th Street apartment when she said she was jolted awake around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, cops and sources said.

A snoozing straphanger woke up to a nightmare aboard a Brooklyn subway train this week when a stranger stabbed him in the head with a screwdriver, then robbed him, police said Friday.

The 29-year-old was in dreamland on a northbound 2 train as it neared the Beverly Road station around 2 p.m. Thursday when the man approached and jabbed him in the head with the tool.

A teenager was stabbed in front of a pizza shop on Manhattan’s Upper West Side Thursday afternoon — but collapsed before he could open the door to get help and died, police sources said.

The 17-year-old victim was left sprawled out on a sidewalk with a bloody pink knife near his body after the attack around 1:30 p.m. at West 100th Street and Broadway in front of Cheesy Pizza, cops said.

A man lured a 12-year-old girl to his car in the Bronx and raped her, police said Thursday.

The suspect — who is on the loose — approached the girl in his black SUV on Elder Avenue in the Soundview section at about 10:30 p.m. Friday, police said.

 brute randomly attacked a boy and a girl — punching both of them in the head — in a Brooklyn public housing lobby Tuesday morning as they waited for a school bus, police said.

“They were in the lobby waiting for a bus,” a police spokesman said. “Then, all of a sudden he just punches them.”

Police are investigating what let to the fatal shooting of a Bronx man near his home Sunday morning.

Nelson Ramos, 29, was shot shortly before 4 a.m. after an argument with one or more people outside the Monroe Houses in Soundview, police said.

Disturbing video released by cops shows three brutes viciously attacking a man — beating, kicking and stomping on him during a violent robbery in The Bronx.

The 44-year-old was standing on Bruckner Boulevard near Waterbury Avenue in the East Bronx around 5 a.m. Sunday when the three men approached him from behind and forced him to the ground, police said.

 13-year-old stabbed her male classmate on Wednesday inside a Bronx school cafeteria following a dispute that started online, police said.

The girl stabbed the 14-year-old pupil in the right shoulder around 12 p.m. inside the lunchroom of Hostos-Lincoln Academy of Science on St. Ann’s Avenue in Melrose, according to cops.

EAST NEW YORK -- Police have released video of the suspect wanted in connection to a shooting in East New York.

The NYPD released the surveillance video late Wednesday night.

In it, police say, is the man they believe pulled the trigger.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Police are investigating a shooting in Brooklyn that sent one man to the hospital in critical condition. 

Investigators say he was shot in the chest Wednesday afternoon near Park Avenue and Throop Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. 

NY1 is told the shooting may have happened on the roof of a building at the Tompkins Houses. 

Police are looking for a man who allegedly followed a woman into her Williamsburg apartment building early on New Year’s Day and attempted to rape her.

Cops released surveillance video that shows a man trailing the 26-year-old female at around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday as she walks into the building near Havemeyer and South 2nd Streets.

A man was shot and killed in a Brooklyn housing development early Tuesday — marking the city’s first slaying of 2019, cops said.

The 29-year-old victim was discovered around 4:30 a.m. with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso in the fifth-floor hallway of a Stanley Avenue building within East New York’s Louis H. Pink Houses, police said.

A Washington Heights woman who lived in fear of her ex-boyfriend became one of the first murder victims of 2019 when he stabbed her to death and then flung himself to his death from her apartment terrace, police sources said.

Yuberkis Paulino, 50, was discovered dead on the floor of her bedroom early Tuesday, in what cops are investigating as a murder-suicide, per sources and neighbors.

A man was beaten in a bodega on New Year's Day until he was unconscious, with multiple fractures in his face and bleeding on his brain, police said. 

The 66-year-old man was arguing with another man outside before 5 a.m. when it escalated into a fight, the NYPD said Sunday. 

A deliveryman was beaten early Monday when he parked his car in front of motorcycles outside the Hells Angels’ East Village clubhouse, police sources said.

The 22-year-old was dropping off food to a different location on East Third Street between First and Second avenues around 2 a.m. when he stopped his car in front of the motorcycle club, police said.

NEW YORK (CBS NewYork) — Police are on the hunt for a man with several identifying tattoos they say raped a woman in Queens over the weekend.

Investigators say the suspect, identified by the NYPD as 24-year-old George Persaud, was brandishing an imitation firearm when he approached the 40-year-old victim in South Ozone Park between midnight and 6 a.m. on Sunday.

THE BRONX -- Police say one teen is hospitalized after being stabbed during a fight with another teen at The Mall at Bay Plaza.

The 17-year-old was stabbed in the left arm at around 8:40 p.m. Wednesday in front of Modell's Sporting Goods.

An elderly Brooklyn woman was beaten in her bed Christmas morning by a home-invasion robber — who waltzed right into the NYCHA building, which residents say hasn’t had a working front door for years.

“The front-door lock is always broken,” said Lyubov Faynshteyn, 88, a tenant of Coney Island’s Haber Houses since 1997. “Anyone that wants to get it open will.”

A heartless thief swiped a wheelchair from an 18-year-old with a rare genetic brain disorder in Queens — on Christmas Day no less, police and her family said Friday.

“This chair takes my daughter everywhere. I don’t know how she is going to get to school,” said the teen’s mom, Antonia Martinez. “I feel so bad. I’ve been crying.”

An intruder slipped into a Bronx home and tried to sexually assault a woman — but she fought back and her boyfriend scared him away, cops said Monday.

The man entered the Eastchester home on Light Street and Rombouts Avenue through an unlocked front door around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, cops said.

A 12-year-old boy wounded in a Harlem shooting does not appear to be the intended target, cops said Monday.

The boy was struck in the leg around 8:30 p.m. Sunday on East 113th Street near Lexington Avenue, and quickly ducked into El Barrio Superette, according to police sources.

Three goons took an MTA bus for a 1.5-mile joyride in Brooklyn on Sunday—the same day a brazen bandit stole and drove a different city bus from the Bronx to Queens and back, police said.

The trio picked up the bus at a MTA depot at Williams Place and Herkimer Street in East New York around 12:30 a.m., cops said.

A gunman barged into a Brooklyn insurance company, held a worker at gunpoint and swiped her bag, phone and cash, dramatic new video shows.

The suspect entered Ken Mable Inc. on Flushing Avenue near Clinton Avenue around 5:45 p.m. Friday, pointed a silver gun at a 53-year-old employee and demanded money, cops said Saturday.

A stranger whacked a good Samaritan in the head with a metal pipe when she tried to break up a spat he was having with another Manhattan straphanger, cops said Thursday.

The 28-year-old victim was on the northbound N/Q/R platform of the 34th Street-Herald Square subway station around 7:15 a.m. Wednesday when she attempted to intervene in an argument between two men, cops said.

A woman was sexually assaulted and punched in the face on a Queens street early Tuesday, police said. 

The 56-year-old woman was walking near 165th Street and Sanford Avenue in Murray Hill about 2 a.m. when a man came up to her, punched her multiple times in the face and sexually assaulted her, police said. 

A sicko grabbed a teen by the hair, attempted to force sex and tried to throw her onto the tracks in a vicious attack on a subway station Saturday.

The 19-year-old victim was on the Manhattan-bound Cypress Hills J-train platform at around 1:20 a.m. Tuesday, when the pervert approached, dragged her by her hair and demanded she perform a sex act.

A woman slashed a stranger who tried petting her dog aboard a city bus in the Bronx — then turned the blade on a good Samaritan who intervened, police said.

The 22-year-old victim was aboard a BX19 bus around 2:30 p.m. near East 149th Street and Morris Avenue in Melrose when she touched the woman’s dog, prompting a fight between them, according to cops.

A fight between two Manhattan tour-bus drivers ended in bloodshed Sunday when one of them stabbed the other for refusing to back up so he could make a turn, police and sources said.

The violence occurred near the intersection of Pearl and State streets near Battery Park about 3 p.m., authorities said.

Police are looking for a man who raped a woman in Queens early Sunday morning.

The 44-year-old victim was walking near Augustina Ave in Far Rockaway at about 4:30 a.m. when her unknown assailant pushed her to the ground and sexually assaulted her, police said.

A man was killed and two others were hurt in a Bronx shooting early Saturday, cops said.

A 28-year-old victim was shot in the chest and face inside a building on Anthony Avenue near East Tremont Avenue in Mount Hope around 5:45 a.m., according to police.

NEW YORK (CBS New York) — An NYPD officer is being hailed as a hero after his quick actions saved a man from bleeding to death when an attempted robbery turned violent at an upper Manhattan pizza shop.

It happened around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, when police say a man captured on surveillance video entered Tom’s Delicious Pizza on Broadway in Morningside Heights brandishing a gun.

A brute pummeled an MTA bus driver who refused to give him a free ride in Queens, cops said Sunday.

The suspect got onto the bus at Merrick Boulevard and 220th Street in Laurelton around 10:40 p.m. Dec. 14 and demanded a free ride, cops said.

PELHAM PARKWAY, Bronx (WABC) -- Police are investigating after a woman was sexually assaulted inside her Bronx apartment on Wednesday afternoon.

The incident was reported just after 1 p.m. on Cruger Avenue in the Pelham Parkway section.

Authorities say the suspect, who was unknown to the victim, entered the apartment through an unlocked door while wearing a ski mask.

Police shot a gunman in the Bronx on Wednesday night after he shot another man during a fight in the street, authorities said.

The unidentified suspect got into a fight with another man near White Plains Road and East 241st Street at about 7:45 p.m. and shot him, police said.

A woman was raped by a stranger after falling asleep on a subway train in Brooklyn, police said.

The 25-year-old Brooklyn resident told police she was riding the F train around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday when she drifted off — and awoke sometime later to find the man sexually assaulting her.

Three FDNY EMTs were injured — and at least one was assaulted — while treating a patient in Brooklyn, according to officials and video posted to social media Friday.

EMS was responding to a call for someone who was in cardiac or respiratory distress around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday near Albany Avenue and Rutland Road in East Flatbush, an FDNY spokesman said.

A Queens high school was put on lockdown Tuesday after a 14-year-old student was slashed in the forehead by a classmate, officials said.

The student was attacked inside Benjamin Cardozo High School on 223rd St. near 58th Ave. in Bayside about 9 a.m.

A 45-year-old man has died after he was stabbed in the torso, the NYPD said.

Police responding to a 911 call around 12:47 a.m. on Sunday found the man at 54 E. 176th St., in the Mount Hope neighborhood of the Bronx, with a stab wound to his torso.

A man shot near his Brooklyn home pointed out his killer before he died, police said Wednesday.

Mohammed Grine, 23, identified 23-year-old James Raccagna as the alleged assailant, who was still on the scene of the fatal shooting when cops arrived at 20th Ave. near Shore Parkway Sunday night. Police arrested him at that time, authorities said Wednesday.

CANARSIE, Brooklyn — An FBI agent was shot in the shoulder in a drive-by shooting in Brooklyn, the NYPD said Saturday.

Police say the male agent was shot at about 3:30 p.m. near East 92nd Street and Avenue N in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn.

Police on Saturday released a photo of two men wanted in connection to a Brooklyn shooting that killed one and injured another.

The men — who were photographed near the crime scene — are wanted for questioning in the slaying Tuesday of Jahlil Grant, 21, who was walking with another man at the Roosevelt Houses, near the corner of Marcus Garvey Blvd. and Pulaski St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Cops on Saturday busted the brute who allegedly raped a woman after posing as a good Samaritan in Brownsville earlier this month.

Jason Lopez, 40, was charged with first-degree rape, third-degree robbery, sex abuse, first-degree unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching, cops said.

A young woman was punched from behind in an attack that fractured her spine by a man who called her an anti-gay slur, the NYPD said.

The man, who is believed to be in his 50s, approached the 20-year-old victim on the Manhattan-bound E train near the Forrest Hills station on Nov. 30, the NYPD said. 

Hate was in full force when a pack of teens assaulted a 16-year-old Jewish teen while allegedly screaming, "Kill the Jew!"

David Paltielov is still hospitalized with bruises, lacerations and contusions to the head after being stomped on and beaten by dozens of boys in Queens, N.Y. Two teens, ages 17 and 18 were arrested on Thursday in relation to the beating, but the New York City Police Department didn't charge them with a hate crime. Both were charged with first-degree felony gang assault and second-degree felony assault.

A screaming match between two straphangers over a seat turned violent when one of them attacked the other, police say.

The onslaught broke out Nov. 28 at around 4 p.m. when a 50-year-old victim and 30-something-year-old suspect began arguing over a seat while riding a southbound F train, according to the NYPD.

An unhinged man cold-cocked a stranger in an unprovoked attack inside a Bronx subway station, startling video shows.

Surveillance footage released by police Monday shows the 55-year-old victim standing near the turnstile inside the Hunts Point Avenue train station around 6:30 a.m. Nov. 25 when the assailant approaches.

A mother was shot in the face through the peephole on her apartment door, killing her as her 15-year-old son watched, police said.

Wendy Martinez, 45, was pronounced dead in her home in Concourse Village in the Bronx where she was shot shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday, the NYPD said.

A scammer in Times Square stole $1,200 from a tourist and left her with a pocket full of newspaper instead of bills, the NYPD said. 

The man posed as a visitor from another country on Nov. 23 and said he had been robbed of $300, then asked the 23-year-old victim if she could hold his money, the NYPD said. He said he kept his money an orange bandana.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Police say a person was taken into custody Friday after a 70-year-old man was fatally stabbed in Brooklyn.

Sources tell NY1 the victim was getting out of his car around 9 a.m. along Woodbine Street in Bushwick.

A New York City man has been accused of raping a woman and then stealing $40 from her. 

The NYPD says Tyrieke Schenholster was cuffed after the attack near East 135th STreet and St. Ann's Avenue on Sunday.

A woman was punched and stabbed when she got off the subway in Brooklyn by a man yelling racially charged words, her family and police said. 

The victim, 57-year-old Ann Marie Washington, was hospitalized Sunday after having surgery for a collapsed lung due to the stabbing, her family told NBC 4 New York. 

A man was kicked and slashed in the face while standing on a midtown Manhattan street corner, police said. 

The 54-year-old victim was at 47th Street and Eighth Avenue just after midnight on Friday when two men began kicking him, the NYPD said. They also slashed his face. 

The Brooklyn granddad who allegedly stabbed an ACS translator for suggesting his grandkids were dirty was slapped with an attempted murder charge at an arraignment on Saturday.

Quanyi Feng, was ordered held on $250,000 bail, and orders of protection were issued for the interpreter, Anna Yoon — who was privately contracted by the agency — along with an ACS worker, Lucy Nunez.

ELMHURST, QUEENS — Police took a Queens high school student into custody after he allegedly stabbed another student late Thursday morning, the NYPD said. The 17-year-old stabbed the other male student in the chest around 11:54 a.m. in front of the Pan American International High School in Elmhurst, an NYPD spokeswoman said.

The victim, 19, was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition and is expected to survive, the spokeswoman said said.

A man was repeatedly stabbed during a fight on a Queens street Monday night, leaving him with life-threatening wounds, cops said.

The 26-year-old victim was involved in a brawl on Hillside Ave. near 164th St. in Jamaica at about 10:45 p.m., cops said.

Cops have identified the 26-year-old man who was fatally shot multiple times on a residential Flushing street Sunday morning.

Officers from the 109th Precinct responded to a 911 call about the shooting in front of a home on 45th Avenue near 163rd Street at 4:30 a.m. Nov. 4.

An off-duty cop was shot when two groups opened fire on each other on a Bronx street early Tuesday, police said.

The 33-year-old officer, who is assigned to the 43rd Precinct, was driving another cop home when the bullets began flying on E. 137th St. near Brook Ave. in Mott Haven around 12:05 a.m.,authorities said.

A man has died and his 5-year-old son was wounded when the two were shot in a staircase inside a Bronx apartment building, police said.

The 29-year-old father, Jaquan Millien, had just picked up his son from school, and the two went to visit someone in the Butler Houses in Claremont Village. They were in the staircase on the fifth floor when someone opened fire.

A father was wounded and his son was killed in a stabbing after they got into an argument with another man, police said.

The 56-year-old father and his 35-year-old son, identified by police as Hason Correa, of the Bronx, allegedly beat up another man after getting into an argument with him on 152nd Street, near Frederick Douglass Boulevard, in Harlem on Friday night, the NYPD said.

SUNNYSIDE, Queens – A man is likely to survive after he was shot in the face and stabbed in the torso in Queens early Monday morning, the NYPD said.

Police said the shooting happened shortly after 5 a.m. on 49th Street and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in the Sunnyside section of Queens.

A teenager has been arrested on a hate crime charge after surveillance video showed him beating an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn Monday.

Surveillance cameras showed the victim running into a dry cleaners as the black teenager chased after him and beat the victim with a tree branch, according to police and witnesses. The branch broke on the victim's back.

An 11-year-old girl was raped in the bathroom in broad daylight of a Bronx park by another teen, police said. 

The girl was near Hilton White Park in Morrisania on Oct. 14 around 11 a.m. when she met with the assailant, who is believed to be between 14 and 16 years old, the NYPD said. Cops later said the girl told them she has seen the alleged rapist in the neighborhood before, but doesn't really know who he is. 

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Police are searching for one suspect in connection with a stabbing at the Todt Hill Houses in Castleton Corners Saturday night.

At approximately 8:50 p.m., police and emergency service units responded to a call at 246 Westwood Ave. that an individual suffered a stab wound to the chest, according to an NYPD spokesman.

Police are searching for a man who allegedly groped a woman, then fondled himself on the subway in Brooklyn last week.

The victim, a 25-year-old woman, was on the southbound F train in Park Slope during the evening rush last Friday when she said the man started rubbing her upper thigh, according to police. When she moved away from him, she saw that he was masturbating inside his pants.

A Manhattan man sucker-punched an on-duty NYPD cop and tried to steal the officer’s gun during a violent exchange in Midtown, authorities said.

It was the second time Sean Humphrey, 24, has been charged this year with assaulting an officer, the Daily News has learned. Eight months ago, he was accused of attacking an MTA cop near Penn Station.

A heartless purse snatcher snagged a 57-year-old woman’s handbag as she walked down a rain-swept Brooklyn street — pulling his defiant victim to the ground as they struggled over the purse, stunning video shows.

Police on Tuesday released the surveillance video in the hopes that someone recognizes the crook responsible for the Oct. 11 mugging.

A  man is clinging to life Wednesday after he was shot in the face and stomach during a clash in Queens, authorities said.

A Manhattan woman claims she was raped by a man who sneaked into her bed as she slept, police say.

The 25-year-old victim may have left a Chelsea door unlocked and investigators believe the attacker is somebody who recently moved into the building on 14th Street.

Police in Manhattan are on the hunt for a trio of violent subway robbers who cops say attacked and beat a woman inside a Chelsea station for money.

The 30-year-old woman was approached by the three suspects inside the 23rd Street C train subway station around 10 Monday night, according to the NYPD. As she was walking into the station, one of them kicked her in her back.

City police are investigating after they said a local rapper was killed in a drive-by shooting outside a lounge in Queens on Sunday morning.

"I just see chairs all over the floor and then I just see him on the floor, and then I didn't see anything until he starting gasping and blood just was going everywhere," said bartender Tieshajah Reynolds, who witnessed the shooting.

MARINE PARK, Brooklyn — An armed robber who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman and slashed her retired NYPD lieutenant husband in the face has been arrested, the NYPD said Friday.

Tyrique Rushing, 20, was apprehended in Missouri and extradited back to NYC where he is expected to face charges for the Oct. 7 attack.

A man leaving a pizzeria in the Bronx was punched so hard in the face that his eye socket cracked and a vessel in his eye burst, and police say they are investigating it as a possible hate crime.

Chris Bilcik, 60, was eating inside Ray's Pizza on East 138th Street in Mott Haven on Oct. 6 when another man began acting erratically and started speaking to himself, police said. 

EAST NEW YORK, Brooklyn — Authorities are looking for a male in a white SUV after a 21-year-old woman was shot and killed in Brooklyn on Friday, the NYPD said.

The incident happened just before 7 p.m. outside a house located on Van Siclen Avenue between Pitkin Avenue and Belmont Avenue.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A 35-year-old man was shot in the foot after a dispute in Stapleton Wednesday night, a spokesman for the NYPD said.

An unknown assailant fired the shot at the man in front of a store on the 500 block of Targee Street at around 2:45 p.m., the spokesman said.

A 64-year-old man was slashed on a bus in Queens after an argument with another passenger over one accidentally bumping the other, police said. 

The man got into the argument with a woman on a northbound Q3 bus near Farmers and Merrick boulevards in St. Albans shortly after 5 p.m. on Oct. 3. After, when the bus stopped, a man got on and slashed the 64-year-old in the head and face, police said.

COLUMBUS CIRCLE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Police say they have arrested a man who allegedly committed a disturbing lewd act on a Manhattan subway train.

The incident happened earlier this month, around 8 a.m. on Monday, October 1, on board a southbound D train on the Upper West Side.

BROOKLYN, NY — A 4-year-old boy was found dead in the courtyard of a Brooklyn apartment building early Saturday morning, according to the NYPD.

The boy's 20-year-old brother has been taken into custody, the NYPD said. The brother, Shawn J. Smith, is charged with second-degree murder.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Police are searching for two masked gunmen who allegedly robbed a Tompkinsville deli Friday afternoon.

The perpetrators entered the Abounaji Deli & Grocery at 87 Victory Blvd. at around 2:50 p.m. and displayed a firearm, said an NYPD spokesman.

The bigot who randomly attacked two gay men in Williamsburg — hurling a slur at them and then knocking them unconscious — is an Ernst & Young consultant who was arrested Wednesday, according to police and the company.

Brandon McNamara, 25, turned himself in at the Seventh Precinct — home to the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force — around 8 a.m. with his lawyer, police said.

NEW YORK — A woman stabbed five people — including three newborn babies — and then slashed her wrist early Friday inside a New York City home that was apparently being used as an unlicensed neighbourhood nursery for new mothers and their children, authorities said.

All of the victims in the attack, which happened before 4 a.m., were hospitalized but expected to survive.

NEW YORK — A man shot and killed a woman who is believed to be his ex-girlfriend and wounded the woman’s new boyfriend before turning the gun on himself inside a Queens apartment Friday morning, police said.

A 911 call from a neighbor led police to the residence on 77th Street, where the bodies of Regan Smith, 31, and the suspected shooter, 47-year-old Nelson Giron, were recovered around 7 a.m. The second man, identified as a 43-year-old off-duty Yonkers police officer, was found with a gunshot wound to the shoulder and what was believed to be two stab wounds, police said. He was transported to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he underwent surgery and was expected to survive.

A 16-year-old boy has died after he was shot in the head while playing basketball at a Brooklyn playground just after school let out Friday, and police say it appears he wasn't the intended target.

The teen is believed to have been an innocent bystander when he was shot on the basketball court behind P.S. 396 in Brownsville, just a few minutes after school let out, according to police. 

Police on Wednesday are looking for two men they said stole about $100,000-worth of jewelry from a Manhattan store.

"When I stood up, the guns were pointed at me, then I fell down," store employee Charlie Wont said. "In two minutes they took the things and jumped out. They shot the door and went out."

Police have arrested a man they say shot and killed an off-duty correction officer on Friday in Richmond Hill, Queens, the NYPD said.

Officers responding to a 911 call at 1:46 a.m. found Jonathan Narain, 27, unconscious in a red 2013 Honda Accord at 103rd Avenue and 120th Street, a department spokesman said. 

THE BRONX -- Police are searching for two men they say are behind two burglaries along Third Avenue in Belmont.

Officials tell News 12 the men got into one of the businesses, Royal Prestige, by breaking down the basement entrance at around 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 11.

A Bronx ex-con called his parole office and confessed to fatally stabbing his wife in the stomach, then fled, police sources said Monday.

Two men were attacked and slashed within 10 minutes of each other in unprovoked incidents Monday in the Bronx, police said.

A thief stole a man’s cellphone and wallet in a knife-point robbery in Central Park early Sunday morning, cops said.

Police are on the hunt for a man they say robbed two Manhattan businesses within an hour and a half, went on a liquor bottle-throwing tantrum and sent an elderly woman to the hospital.

A man was killed in a shooting on a street in Brooklyn Friday evening, police say.

Two people — including a woman who was pushing a child in a stroller — robbed a man at knifepoint in Harlem early Thursday morning.

A woman was shot in the face outside an unlicensed social club in Brooklyn early Thursday — and miraculously survived, police said.

Two early morning robberies on Staten Island involving a suspect armed with a hammer have officially been deemed a pattern by police.

Police are searching for a man they say tried to rape a 20-year-old woman while she was pushing her infant in a stroller in the Bronx, and they're hoping surveillance video will lead to an arrest.

A man was killed and another was shot in the hand when three gunmen opened fire in a Brooklyn housing complex early Tuesday, police said.

An 18-year-old male was shot in the hip during a fight after the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn on Monday, cops said.

A man was shot once in the back in Brooklyn on Monday morning, more than an hour after the annual J’Ouvert festival kicked off, police said.

The son of an aide to Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams was fatally shot in Bedford-Stuyvesant, sources told The Post on Monday.

Police nabbed the man accused of luring a woman outside of her apartment building's laundry room Saturday and trying to rape her, authorities said.

A Papa John’s Pizza deliveryman was fatally shot in the head in front of the Harlem pizzeria where he worked, police sources said.

A purported member of the MS-13 gang broke into the bedroom of a sleeping 11-year-old Brooklyn girl and raped her in her bed, cops said Saturday as the suspect was taken into custody.

This is the suspected burglar who leaped from the roof of a proposed Billionaires’ Row homeless shelter to the penthouse of a Paul Manafort-linked banker and ransacked the pad — the second apartment he cleaned out in a matter of hours, cops said Wednesday.

A good Samaritan fought off an attacker who started to sexually assault a woman after dragging her down an alley in Brooklyn, police said.

Police are searching for a ponytailed man who allegedly raped one woman on the Washington Bridge, and tried to rape another.

The NYPD is asking for the public’s help in finding a teen who spent some of his summer stealing cell phones from people in Flushing.

MOTT HAVEN - A man robbed the same Bronx MetroPCS in just a two-week span, police say.

The first incident happened on August, 10 inside the cellphone store on E. 138th Street around 5:50 p.m.

ALLERTON - Four people were shot and two others were stabbed outside of a club in the Bronx.

The incident happened Saturday near Radcliff Avenue and Colden Avenue just after 4 a.m.

EAST WILLIAMSBURG - Police say they're searching for a suspect behind a deadly shooting in East Williamsbury early Sunday morning.

They say 29-year-old Kevin Wood was shot in the chest on DeBevoise Avenue shortly after 4 a.m.

BROOKLYN - Police say a man is in critical condition after being stabbed inside of a subway station late Saturday night.

Authorities say the 32-year-old victim was arguing with someone at the Ralph Avenue subway station. 

A knife-wielding robber shoved a construction company boss into the side of a Brooklyn building and stole $3,300 in cash, police said Friday.

EAST FLATBUSH - Two men were stabbed and slashed inside of an East Flatbush playground.

The incident happened Thursday night inside of Nostrand Playground around 7:40 p.m.

CROWN HEIGHTS — Police surveillance video shows a man lunging towards and attacking a woman on the streets in Brooklyn during a robbery.

The Aug. 8 recording shows the incident outside of Bergen Street and Schenectady Avenue unfolding around 11:40 p.m.

PELHAM BAY -A woman was attacked and strangled by a man who followed her inside of her Bronx apartment building stairwell, police say.

The incident happened on July 5, inside an apartment building near Buhre and Mahan avenues around 9:05 p.m.

A man was shot during by two men in what police say may have been an attempted robbery.

The incident happened Thursday on Devoe Terrace around 11:50 p.m.

Police are looking for the person who robbed an 8-year-old boy of his cellphone in the Bronx on Monday.

The suspect followed the boy, whose mother says he was coming home from summer camp, into the vestibule of an apartment building in the area of St. Ann's Avenue and East 139th Street just before 6 p.m. and tried to snatch his cellphone from his hands, police said.

CYPRESS HILLS -An MTA subway conductor was punched in the face by two straphangers after he allegedly announced the train would be going express, officials say.

The incident happened Saturday at the Grant Avenue station in Brooklyn just after 4:30 a.m.

THE BRONX - Police are searching for men they say have been responsible for a string of robberies in the Bronx.

They say majority of those incidents happened in Bronx Park back in May.

BROOKLYN - Police are on the hunt for a man they say pleasured himself in public at the 7th Avenue subway station.

Police tell News 12 the man, who was spotted by a straphanger, was masturbating for about 20 minutes - while lying on a Q train platform bench.

An armed robber choked a Harlem man into unconsciousness as he tried to steal the man’s cell phone from his hand, shocking surveillance video shows.

The robber, who wore an “R.I.P. Youth” t-shirt, stalked the victim into the stairwell of his building on W. 147th St. building near Amsterdam Ave. at about 9:50 p.m. Friday.

Two men stabbed a Manhattan straphanger after they started an argument with him on a Queens-bound E train early Sunday morning, police said.

The two suspects approached the 29-year-old victim on the train near the Lexington Avenue stop at about 12:15 a.m. and barked: “What are you looking at?” the victim told police.

A 15-year-old boy shot and wounded by cops in Far Rockaway after he opened fire at an event honoring gun-violence victims was charged with attempted murder and weapons violations Saturday, authorities said.

Cops were breaking up a large disorderly group at a barbecue on Redfern Ave. near Nameoke Ave. late Friday when the 15-year-old, whose name wasn’t released because of his age, began firing off rounds, NYPD Chief David Barrere said.

BED-STUY - Police are on the hunt for three men they say got into a gun fight last week.

News 12 is told bullets went flying on Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Van Buren Street.

Authorities are looking for a woman who allegedly attacked a 26-year-old subway rider when she sat down next to her earlier this month, repeatedly nudging her and then yanking her hair and punching her multiple times in the head.

The 26-year-old woman grabbed a seat next to the suspect on a rush-hour northbound No. 1 train in the Bronx Aug. 1, and cops say the older woman got annoyed. First she just nudged the 26-year-old rider, over and over again.

A grandmother landed in the hospital early Friday after being stabbed in the chest while trying to break up a fight in Brooklyn between a group of teens, cops said.

The 61-year-old woman tried to intervene in the melee on Kosciuszko Street near Malcolm X Boulevard in Bed-Stuy just before 1 a.m., officials said.

EAST NEW YORK - A 15-year-old boy was stabbed multiple times inside of an East New York middle school, police say.

The incident happened Wednesday at I.S. 292 around 3:15 p.m.

A quick-thinking woman managed to snap cell phone pictures of a perv she says masturbated in front of her on a Queens street — and cops have released the images.

The 47-year-old woman was sitting in her car near 65th Ave. and 174th St. in Fresh Meadows when a man started masturbating in front of her about 3:40 a.m. Monday. She drove off to seek help at a nearby gas station and the creep followed her there, according to police.

A knife-wielding mugger has been targeting women in Astoria — and police have released a video of the creep wearing an “I Love NY” shirt in hopes of getting help in tracking him down.

The man’s crime spree began about 11:30 p.m. July 28, when he approached a 27-year-old woman in front of 34-19 33rd St. and made off with $120.

A serial robber has struck five Manhattan banks in the past week, police said.

The suspect — who was wearing sunglasses, blue jeans and a gray hoodie in one of the heists — began his spree on Aug. 2, hitting two Midtown banks in under 20 minutes.

A tourist from Florida died after he was attacked in Queens over the weekend, according to reports on Tuesday.

Boca Raton resident Sabor Szabo, 35, succumbed to injuries he suffered during an assault in Long Island City early Sunday, loved ones and co-workers told WPEC-TV.

WEST FARMS - A man waved a wad of cash at an 11-year-old girl walking on the sidewalk before exposing himself to her, police say.

The incident happened on July 30, in front of 1540 Longfellow Ave. around 2:30 p.m.

Two women — one a nail salon employee and one a customer — face charges in connection with a wild brawl that broke out a Brooklyn shop last week, allegedly over a botched eyebrow job, according to authorities and a published report.

Video posted to Facebook by another customer who happened to be inside New Red Apple Nails on East Flatbush's Nostrand Avenue when the chaos broke out around 9:30 p.m. Friday shows the worker wielding a broom and repeatedly whacking the customer in the back and shoulder area.

BAY RIDGE - A man robbed a TD bank in Brooklyn, according to police.

The incident happened on Sunday inside of the TD Bank at 9904 4th Ave. around 1:40 p.m.

KENSINGTON - Police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down the person who attacked a 70-year old in Kensington.

Police tell News 12 it all happened on June 1.

THE BRONX - Police are looking for the gunman behind an early morning shooting.

They say this man took out a gun and fired at least two shots Saturday just before 6 a.m. on the 900 block of Prospect Avenue.

THE BRONX - Police are investigating after a 42-year-old man was killed in an overnight shooting.

Officers found the victim, Edwin Cabrera around 11:30 p.m. on the 100 block of Tudor Place near the Grand Concourse with a gunshot wound to his chest.

The New York Police Department says an off-duty officer has shot and wounded a man who tried to rob him in Brooklyn.

Police say the 21-year-old man was in stable condition after he was shot in the mouth early Thursday. It happened at the intersection of Livonia and New Jersey Avenues.

Surveillance video released by the NYPD on Monday shows a gang of young men attacking another guy with sticks and a sword on a Queens street.

The 26-year-old victim was on 123rd Street near 101st Avenue in Richmond Hill at about 6:40 a.m. Sunday when he was approached by one of the toughs, who threatened him with a gun, police said.

THE BRONX - Police say two women were stabbed in an apartment building on Tuesday.

Officials say it happened around 4:30 p.m. on Aldus Street. They say the 73- and 61-year-old women were each stabbed in the chest inside of the building.

An off-duty NYPD sergeant shot a mugger in the jaw during a Thursday morning clash in Brooklyn, officials said.

The cop was walking along Livonia Ave. near New Jersey Ave. in Brownsville just before 6 a.m. when the mugger approached and demanded his property.

SUNSET PARK - A man was fatally stabbed Thursday morning in Sunset Park, police say.

The stabbing happened just before 10 a.m. on 59th Street. Police closed off part of the street, focusing their investigation on a minivan that sources say was the livery cab in which the victim and three suspects got into some sort of dispute.

Shots were fired near a busy Brooklyn subway station Wednesday morning, police said.

No one was reported injured in the mayhem around 11:10 a.m. outside the Jay St – MetroTech station in Downtown Brooklyn.

A 27 year-old male was gunned down in front of a Buddhist temple in the Bronx Tuesday night, according to cops.

The unidentified victim was found by police in front of the Chùa Thập Phương Temple on Andrews Ave N, in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx, with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso and head according to cops and witnesses from the scene.

A passenger on an MTA bus in Brooklyn punched another rider while shouting an anti-white statement in an unprovoked attack, police said.

The suspect walked up to the rider on the B25 bus and said, “I hate all you white motherf—–s,” as the bus drove down Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn on Monday morning, cops said.

Four people, among them a 5-year-old boy, were shot and killed at a small apartment building in Queens on Monday night in what investigators believe may have been a murder-suicide, the police said.

The shooting drew a herd of police cars and ambulances to a tree-lined residential block in Astoria and sent detectives scrambling to learn if a suspect was on the loose.

Gotham echoed with gunfire Saturday night into Sunday as 16 people were shot in 10 incidents over a span of less than seven hours — with one person dead and three others clinging to life after the overnight violence.

The carnage kicked off at 9:43 p.m. in the Bronx when a man wearing a red bandanna in a black sedan squeezed off six rounds at the corner of West 166th Street and Nelson Avenue, nailing an 18-year-old in the shoulder and a 20-year-old in the eye and abdomen, according to police. The eye-shot victim checked himself into Lincoln Hospital, police said.

A straphanger was pushed onto the subway tracks following an accidental run-in with a stranger inside Grand Central Station, police said Wednesday.

The 47-year-old was ascending the stairs to the 6 train platform around 4:15 p.m. Monday when he unintentionally bumped the unidentified man.

Dramatic video shows the moment a man pulled a gun and opened fire, striking two teens this week in broad daylight in Harlem.

In the 17-second cellphone video — which was taken by a New York state parole officer sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car and obtained by The Post — the red-shorts-wearing gunman can be seen running toward two boys before two shots ring out.

HARLEM - A young man from the Bronx was fatally shot in Harlem overnight.

The NYPD says a call came in shortly before 1:30 a.m. about a man who arrived at St. Luke's Hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest.

A woman told police she was sexually assaulted outside of an East Village bar by a man with a British accent early Sunday morning, police sources said.

The woman reported being sexually assaulted at about 4:30 a.m. outside of a bar near the corner of Avenue A and 7th Street in Alphabet City, police sources said.

A Bronx apartment stairwell looked like a scene out of a slasher flick Sunday after police say a drunk man stabbed his ex-girlfriend’s son in the neck and then fell off a fire escape.

Walls were caked with gore, and blood had pooled on steps in the grisly scene, photos show.

A Bronx man was arrested for bashing his girlfriend with a Bible on Sunday, police told The Post.

Daniel Laforge, 36, got into an argument with his girlfriend at his Parkside apartment on Bronx Park East at about 7 a.m., police said.

Two city Parks Department employees were arrested on Sunday for allegedly beating up a man who was urinating in a Bronx park, police sources said.

The victim was allegedly peeing in Jerome Park, which is next to the Bronx High School of Science in Bedford Park, at about 1:30 p.m. when the two workers confronted him, according to a law-enforcement source.

A home health aide can be seen on video staggering through a Bronx hallway while bleeding in a desperate attempt to get help after being attacked, a report said Tuesday.

The aide, 62-year-old Maria Rios, was attempting to flee after she was stabbed by the grandson of a woman she was helping on Sunday, according to WNBC-TV.

BROWNSVILLE - Police are investigating an early morning shooting in Brownsville.

The shooting happened around 4:30 a.m. near Glenmore and Van Siclen avenues.

CONEY ISLAND - A teen is recovering in the hospital after police say he was shot in Coney Island Saturday night.

It happened at the Gravesend Houses on West 33rd Street around 10 p.m. Police say the 18-year-old victim was shot in the chest.

THE BRONX - Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man they say robbed a teenager in the Bronx.

According to police, it all happened Friday onboard a southbound 6 train as it approached the Brook Avenue stop.

A straphanger with a man-bun stabbed a stranger in the mouth with a pen during a robbery in a Harlem train station, cops said.

The assailant approached his 36-year-old victim on a Bronx-bound 6 train and followed him onto the platform at the 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station around 10 p.m. on June 28, according to police.

PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS - Police are looking for four men in connection with the robbery of a livery driver in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.

It happened Friday shortly before midnight on Lefferts Avenue. Police say four men in their 20s approached the cab driver right after he had dropped off a passenger.

A man and a woman were fatally struck Thursday after he dragged her, screaming, in front of a Brooklyn subway train in what police believed was a murder-suicide, sources said.

Anthony Collins, 54, of Jamaica, Queens, grabbed his girlfriend, Cyntha Raiser, 42, of Brooklyn — who was struggling and shouting, “No, no, no” — at the Broadway Junction station at about 4:45 p.m. and pulled her along as he leaped in front of a Manhattan-bound C train, the sources said.

One person was dead after a shooting took place on a Brooklyn baseball field while young kids were playing sports Thursday, sources said.

The shots rang out at 6:30 p.m. in Bushwick Playground at Knickerbocker Avenue and Woodbine Street, according to law enforcement sources.

GREENPOINT - A road-raging driver slashed another man with a box cutter, snatched his keys and then hit him with a car in Greenpoint Tuesday, police say.

Witnesses took cellphone video of the altercation at the intersection of Norman Avenue and McGuinness Boulevard.

A Brooklyn man who rushed to help a woman who'd been attacked by another driver in a road rage incident was himself attacked by the aggressive driver, who allegedly hit him with a van, breaking the good Samaritan's legs.

Warren Thompson says he was getting pizza in Williamsburg Tuesday night when he saw a van sideswipe an older woman's car on Driggs and North Fifth. The woman got out of her car, and the van driver also got out, yelling and waving around brass knuckles, he said.

The NYPD is asking for the public’s help finding a woman accused of punching a 66-year-old man in the face following an argument on the 1 train in Washington Heights Monday, police say.

According to the NYPD, the suspect and victim were arguing on board the 1 train heading Uptown at approximately 6 p.m. on Monday. Once the train pulled into the station at 191st Street, the woman punched the man in the face and fled the scene.

Add black and blue to the palette of colors adorning rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine’s head.

The rainbow-maned rhymester — who also sports facial tattoos — told cops he was beaten, kidnapped and robbed in Brooklyn early Sunday.

A young man was slashed in the face in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge on Sunday, and police are looking for about a dozen men who ran from the bloody scene, cops said.

Police said the victim was slashed on South St. near Market Slip about 5:30 p.m.

Police are looking for a man who allegedly stalked a woman as she was going home from work in Brooklyn early Sunday morning, then forced himself into her apartment and tried to rape her.

The 30-year-old woman was walking home in the area of Hewes and South 3rd streets in Williamsburg at around 4 a.m. when the man began following her, police said.

ALLERTON - An 18-year-old boy was shot outside of the Pelham Parkway houses, police say.

The incident happened Sunday outside 955 Waring Ave. around 3 p.m.

An off-duty Long Island cop was hurt in a Bronx shooting during an attempted robbery early Saturday, police said.

The 33-year-old Hempstead officer was driving on Sedgwick Avenue near Hall of Fame Terrace in University Heights just after 6 a.m. when two men in a black Toyota Camry rear-ended him, cops said.

A man was stabbed in the head during a brawl in the food court at the Queens Center Mall on Friday, cops said.

The victim, in his 20s, was injured along with his brother during the fight at around 7 p.m., according to police.

A deranged husband accused of suffocating his ailing wife inside their Bronx apartment stabbed himself in the torso as police arrived to arrest him, cops said Friday.

Nelson Pena, 60, allegedly strangled Maria Pena, 62, inside their home in the Monroe Houses on Lafayette and Soundview Aves. in Soundview around 8:15 p.m. Thursday, cops said.

BROWNSVILLE - One person is in custody after an argument turned violent in Brownsville Friday morning, leaving two people injured.

Police say that stabbing was all over rent money.

Authorities are looking for a man who allegedly screamed profanities at an NYPD traffic agent who ticketed him for double parking, then followed her in his SUV and chucked a bottle with clear liquid out the window, hitting her in the back, last week.

The 55-year-old traffic agent had given the man a ticket on Steinway Street in Queens shortly before 5 p.m. July 20. Authorities say the suspect walked up to her, cursed at her and then got into the passenger side of his vehicle. A woman was driving.

FORT GREENE - Police are asking for the public’s help in finding two men accused of robbing a cab driver in Fort Greene.

Police tell News 12 two men hailed a cab Friday on Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street.

Authorities have uncovered a massive narcotics mill in the Bronx — and seized $7.5 million in heroin and fentanyl, including some labeled “Death” and “Kill.”

Investigators found the haul during a court-authorized search of the illicit packaging plant in the Soundview neighborhood, according to a statement from the city’s Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.

A Bronx man was found shot to death in a car on a Harlem street Tuesday night, cops said.

Police discovered Zuquone Lurk, 22, in a black sedan with bullet wounds to his head and chest just before 8 p.m. The car was parked on W. 154th St. at Frederick Douglass Blvd.

A Queens woman was strangled to death inside her home near Kennedy Airport — and discovered by her concerned brothers, who checked on her after she wasn’t answering phone calls, police and relatives said.

Cops found Samantha Stewart just after 9 p.m. Tuesday at her Jamaica home on 145th Road near 167th Street — with trauma to her neck and head, cops said.

An off-duty MTA worker was shot by a stray bullet while riding the subway Tuesday evening, according to police.

Carlo Thorne, 47, was riding a southbound 3 train when a fight broke out between two groups inside the subway car as it pulled into the station at Rutland Road and East 98th Street in Brooklyn at approximately 6:20pm, according to cops.

Three people were shot — one fatally — in a pair of incidents just blocks from each other in Brooklyn on Tuesday, police said.

A 15-year-old boy and another man, 42, were shot around 2:45 p.m. inside NYCHA’s Bushwick Houses complex at 370 Bushwick Ave in Williamsburg.

TREMONT - Police are looking for the men in connection to a home invasion and armed robbery in Tremont.

According to police, the trio entered a home located near Monterey Avenue and East 178th Street on July 17, where they tied up two women with duct tape.

A Brooklyn teen was beaten and fatally shot on Sunday during a vicious gang-related attack near his home, according to police sources.

Justin Richey, 16, was walking near the corner of Pine St. and Blake Ave. in East New York when members of the notorious Bloods street gang set upon him at around 5 p.m., the sources said.

THE BRONX - An 81-year-old man was sucker punched while walking in the Bronx during an unprovoked attack, police say.

The incident happened on July 15, in front of 698 Courtlandt Ave. around 11:10 p.m.

A man was fatally shot in his Bronx building Saturday in a love triangle gone wrong, according to cops and the victim’s fiancée.

The victim named his killer in his dying breath, his fiance said.

A 15-year-old boy was killed Saturday and two men hurt by a knife wielding man in Brooklyn, cops said.

The teenager was stabbed in the stomach; a 25-year-old who was with him was stabbed in the shoulder and an 18-year-old bystander knifed in his chest.

A sicko forced his way into a Brooklyn woman’s apartment and raped her at gunpoint, cops said Saturday.

The suspect knocked on the victim’s apartment door at 52nd Street and 7th Avenue in Sunset Park around 1 a.m. Friday, police said, then forced his way inside when she answered.

Police on Sunday released surveillance footage of several suspects wanted in connection to a shooting that injured three people — including two innocent bystanders — on the busy Fulton Mall in downtown Brooklyn.

The gunfire erupted on Fulton Street near the intersection of Gallatin Place at about 1:45 p.m. on Friday, police said.

A Bonanno crime family associate was critically wounded in an attempted hit steps away from his lavish Bronx home Wednesday morning, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Salvatore “Sally Daz” Zottola was shot multiple times — including once in the head and three times in the torso — when someone inside a dark Nissan sedan opened fire as he was walking to his car on Tierney Place near Longstreet Avenue in the Locust Point section of the borough around 6:40 a.m., sources said.

A woman was slashed several times by a complete stranger while they rode an MTA bus through the Bronx, police said Wednesday.

The 18-year-old victim and the man were riding a Bx 9 bus as it traveled on Fordham Road when he began arguing with her.

A 16-year-old boy was killed when a gunman shot him in the head in broad daylight as the teen walked with his girlfriend on a tree-lined Brooklyn block Wednesday, police said.

The victim was walking with his sweetheart on Macon St. near Stuyvesant Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant when he got into a war of words with the gunman who opened fire around 2 p.m., according to authorities.

A Bronx ex-con already wanted in the June murder of his lottery-winning uncle was busted for the lethal screwdriver stabbing of a Bronx secretary inside her company’s office, police said.

Outraged family and friends of victim Wanda Rios, 45, said the arrest of suspect Idris Abdul-Muhaymin did nothing to quell their heartbreak about Wednesday’s killing.

A 67-year-old woman was shot in the face Tuesday while waiting for a bus in New Brighton.

Police responded at about 12:30 p.m. to the intersection of Jersey and Pauw streets for a report of the shooting.

A person was killed and four were injured in a chaotic incident on Staten Island Tuesday morning that involved a car ramming into a home in the St. George neighborhood.

“It looks like there was someone chasing someone, fired some shots at him, and the car ended up crashing into someone, and there was one person that was dead on arrival over there,” NYPD Chief Terence Monahan said at an unrelated press conference. “We’ve made four arrests and recovered a gun.”

After fighting off a would-be rapist, the victim ran into her attacker a second time while trying to escape the Bronx park where she was jogging, police say.

The 35-year-old woman was jogging through a wooded section of Bronx River Forest Park at around 8 a.m. Monday when a stranger came up behind her, according to NYPD. The attacker tried to cover her mouth with his hand as he pulled her backwards, but she was able to fight him off and call out for help before running further into the park to escape.

A 46-year old man was shot and killed in a car parked near the Bronx Criminal Courthouse Monday, according to police.

The unidentified victim was sitting in a Honda Accord at East 161st Street and Sherman Avenue when the gunman rolled up on a bicycle and opened fire on the driver through a window, before fleeing.

A homeless man went on a drunken rampage and attacked three women in the East Village — knocking out on one victim’s tooth with a bike lock, law enforcement sources said Sunday.

The man went off the rails at about 11:15 p.m. Saturday, when he cut off a 20-year-old woman on his bicycle on E. 11th Street near Second Avenue — then allegedly shoved her to the ground and pummeled her in the face with his fist, cops said.

Staten Island saw 10 overdoses — three of which were fatal — over the Fourth of July holiday period, officials said.

The borough’s district attorney said the overdoses took place over four days from July 4 though 7 — with one victim found in a Burger King bathroom and another in the restroom at the Staten Island Ferry terminal.

An unhinged panhandler bashed a subway rider’s head in with a metal pipe after they got into an argument, cops said Sunday.

The two men got into a dispute that turned physical on a southbound 2 train near the Chambers St. station Saturday around 11:15 p.m., police said.

An NYPD detective was shot in the leg by a career criminal Friday morning as he tried to serve a warrant for a domestic robbery involving a gun in Brooklyn, police sources said.

The wounded detective, identified by sources as Brooklyn North Warrant Squad member Miguel Soto, and two other cops in an unmarked car spotted suspect Kelvin Stichel, 33, going the opposite way on Decatur St. near Throop Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant just after 6:30 a.m.

Three people were shot early Thursday on a Brooklyn street, police said.

Cops rushed to the scene of the shooting on Herkimer St. at Brooklyn Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant just before 1 a.m.

She brought the fire and the fury before the Fourth of July.

A holiday reveler shot a blazing barrage of fireworks at a Brooklyn liquor store Wednesday night, blasting away as people scrambled for safety.

Police have arrested and charged a suspect in connection with a violent attempted rape in Manhattan late Wednesday.

The suspect, 32-year-old Desmond Smith, is charged with attempted rape, strangulation, sexual abuse, and assault.

WOODLAWN - Police are asking for the public's help in finding a pickpocket.

They say the man stole a wallet and iPhone 8 plus from a 26-year-old man while he was sleeping on a northbound 4 train.

A bandanna-clad shooter was caught on video blasting another man in the back in a crowded apartment building hallway, police said Thursday.

The shooter, wearing a light-blue bandanna tight around his head, can be seen lurking in the stairwell of a building on Kings Highway near E. 98th St. in Brownsville, Brooklyn, as a group of people pass at about 11:20 p.m. Tuesday.

A 40-year-old man was knifed in the shoulder during a squabble in a Harlem subway station Saturday, police said.

The man was stabbed during a fight out on the Manhattan-bound 2/3 platform at the Harlem-125th St./Lenox Ave. station around 5 p.m., according to authorities.

A 62-year-old man fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend inside an East Harlem cell-phone store — and then casually walked away to smoke a cigarette, police and witnesses said.

A surveillance video captured the moment Pedro Vinent-Barcia slashed away at the 51-year-old victim inside the East Harlem Wireless at the corner of Third Ave. and E. 123rd St. about noon.

A 27-year-old man was fatally shot on a Brooklyn street corner Thursday night, marking just the second murder this year in an East New York police precinct that saw triple-digit homicide numbers in the 1990s.

The victim was shot on the corner of Pitkin and Montauk Aves. at about 9:30 p.m., after getting into an argument with someone in a white luxury sedan, cops said.

The woman whose hacked up remains were scattered around a Brooklyn park was strangled, investigators have determined.

Brandy Odom’s body parts where found strewn about Canarsie Park on the morning of April 9.

A 58-year-old man was stabbed to death outside his own home in the St. Albans section of Queens on Thursday morning, police say.

The victim, later identified as Mario Cesar, suffered multiple stab wounds to the body. He was found unresponsive in the driveway of his home on 116 Avenue when NYPD arrived on the scene at around 9:30 a.m.

The woman whose hacked up remains were scattered around a Brooklyn park was strangled, investigators have determined.

Brandy Odom’s body parts where found strewn about Canarsie Park on the morning of April 9.

Police in Queens are searching for a suspect in an unprovoked attack on the street, and they're hoping surveillance video will lead to an arrest.

Authorities say the 50-year-old victim was walking on Liberty Avenue around 3 a.m. when he was approached by a man and punched in the face.

A baby reveal party turned bad when a 34-year-old man was fatally shot in a Bronx park Sunday morning.

Matthew Cruz was shot in the head and back on a paved path inside Rainey Park near Beck St. and Intervale Ave. around 7:35 a.m., police said. Medics rushed Cruz to Lincoln Hospital but he could not be saved.

Family members said Cruz was attending the party earlier in the night when he continued the celebration in the park.

The NYPD has named a suspect in a Bronx shooting that left three people dead — one of them a woman handing out flyers when gunfire erupted last week.

Investigators think the shooting was gang-related, and Tarver was the intended target.

A predator who tried to rape a woman at knifepoint in her Brooklyn home is off the streets, police said.

Darryl Williams, 25, was busted Saturday and charged with attempted rape, strangulation, assault and other charges.

A murderous band of Bloods gang members who treated shootings like a sports “scoreboard” were brought low in a sweeping, two-year investigation, Brooklyn prosecutors said.

Eighteen members of the Martense-Beverly Bosses were rounded up on a string of charges that linked gang members to two murders and six nonfatal shootings targeting their rivals in the Folk Nation.

A deranged husband hacked off his pregnant wife’s right arm below her biceps, and cut off two of the fingers of her left hand at their Brooklyn home on Thursday, police sources said.

The hubby, identified by sources as Yong Lu, 35, used a steak knife to chop off the arm and sever two fingers on her other limb in their apartment on 55th St. near Fifth Ave. in Sunset Park around 12:20 p.m., cops said.

Police are searching for a man in connection with an assault of several women with a cane in Queens.

Authorities say 50-year-old Jose Reyes is the man responsible for attacking three women on June 20 in the Pollo Camparo restaurant on Roosevelt Avenue in Corona.

A Bronx shooting victim made a final, desperate bid to drive away from his attacker before collapsing in his car Tuesday, cops said.

Jose Velez, 22, was sitting in his Honda Accord, with his girlfriend, when he started arguing with a man on Van Nest Ave. and Unionport Road in Van Nest just after 4:05 p.m., cops said.

The gang-related stabbing of a teenager on the Bronx River Parkway has been linked to the stabbing death of 15-year-old Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz, NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said Wednesday.

Shea said the incidents are connected beyond the fact that the same gang -- the Trinitarios -- was involved in both stabbings, but would not specify further. He did not talk about a motive or give additional details

A member of the same bloodthirsty gang that murdered a teenager outside a Bronx bodega and knifed another on the Bronx River Parkway has been charged with stabbing and robbing a man on the Upper East Side, cops said.

Missael Alvarez, 16, who cops describe as a member of the Trinitarios street gang, was busted Thursday night on robbery charges.

Police are asking for tips via social media for a burglary at a McDonald's restaurant in Dongan Hills.

The crime occurred on June 18 at about 1:57 a.m. in the McDonald's at 1388 Hylan Blvd., according to a post on the 122nd Precinct Twitter feed.

Police are searching for two men and a woman wanted for an attack on a woman and two teens in the subway.

It happened aboard a C train near the Jay Street subway station in Brooklyn on June 16.

A Staten Island man died Sunday after a brutal beating inside a Stapleton home about two weeks ago, authorities said.

Lionel Inocent, 68, was punched in the face multiple times at a Targee Street residence, near Laurel Avenue, at around 2:20 a.m. on June 16, according to an NYPD spokeswoman.

The NYPD is looking for a man they say exposed himself to a 14-year-old girl on a subway platform in Queens.

Police say it happened inside the J and Z train subway station at 75th Street and Elderts Lane in Woodhaven on June 14.

Homicides are down so far this year on Staten Island, except for one neighborhood where two were reported in less than two weeks.

Last month, investigators responded to a shooting and a stabbing in Stapleton, within blocks of each other. One outside of a bar on a public street and the other inside a luxury apartment building, respectively.

The NYPD is seeking the public's assistance in identifying a man sought for questioning in connection with a fist fight at a beach-side restaurant, which police say left a 62-year-old woman with injuries.

The fight was reported June 9 at about 12:30 a.m., when an unidentified man involved in a physical altercation with another man inadvertently struck a person in the face with a chair, according to a post to the 122nd precinct's Twitter account.

It’s game over for Robert Taylor, the man police say is wanted for a string of robberies at GameStop stores throughout Manhattan, officials said Wednesday.

Taylor, 48, was apprehended in lower Manhattan early Wednesday, according to the commanding officer of the 1st Precinct, who tweeted about the apprehension.

A stick-up crew scored more than $100,000 in a string of violent robberies in Manhattan and Queens this year, police said Wednesday.

Most recently, the crooks netted $60,000 in cash and $20,000 in checks when they robbed a construction company payroll in Corona, Queens, said cops.

A stick-up crew scored more than $100,000 in a string of violent robberies in Manhattan and Queens this year, police said Wednesday.

Most recently, the crooks netted $60,000 in cash and $20,000 in checks when they robbed a construction company payroll in Corona, Queens, said cops.

Cops seized 20,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills loaded with lethal fentanyl and arrested four suspected drug dealers in a multi-borough bust, the city's special narcotics prosecutor said Monday.

The pills, which bore markings commonly seen on prescription oxycodone, were discovered last week in a Bronx cellphone store and during a traffic stop in East Midtown.

The New York City Council's Committee on Public Safety convened on Thursday to discuss a sweeping package of bills to improve police accountability for officer misconduct, sparking impassioned testimonies from relatives of victims and accusations of apathy by police officials.

"I don't think the NYPD understands what they're doing to people," said Victor Dempsey, the brother of Delrawn Small, who was killed by off-duty officer Wayne Isaacs. "Not only are they murdering civilians--they're demolishing the trust people have in them."

In 2018, crime in New York City hit another record low. In 1990, there were more than 2,200 murders; last year, fewer than 300.

 The NYPD produced these historic gains with a systemic focus on the people and places driving crime.

 The next-level crime reduction will be achieved by working with community members, candidly discussing problems and sharing responsibility for safety together.

 This is the vision behind our neighborhood policing philosophy, and since its introduction in 2015, we have forged deeper connections with the people we serve, in every community.

After rolling out a feature on Google Maps and Waze to warn users of upcoming police speed traps and DWI checkpoints, Google has run afoul of the NYPD, who have sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the features be removed.

"The NYPD has become aware that the Waze Mobile application...currently permits the public to report DWI checkpoints throughout New York City and map these locations," wrote Ann Prunty, the NYPD's acting deputy commissioner for legal matters. "Accordingly, we demand that Google LLC, upon receipt of this letter, immediately remove this function from the Waze application."

In January, a sleeping rider was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver on New York City’s subway. A month before that, a police officer fended off five homeless men who attacked him on a train platform. And on Sunday afternoon, a man was fatally shot at a subway station in Queens, the first recorded murder on the system in six months.

The subway has come a long way since the dark days of the 1980s and 1990s when violence was rampant and riders felt constant dread. The system has become very safe, with just one murder on the subway last year compared with 26 in 1990.

The Upper West Side isn’t the only place where fed-up New Yorkers are turning to private security guards to deal with the city’s spiraling homelessness crisis.

Zeckendorf Towers at Union Square has a single guard patrolling around the complex from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. daily to roust vagrants and keep them from camping out on the sidewalks.

A courageous undercover NYPD detective sealed the deal on a big firearms bust in The Bronx — posing as a buyer for a delivery of 16 handguns and high-capacity “drum magazines” from Florida, officials said.

The two traffickers met with the undercover at an apartment on Tinton Avenue last August, and laid out six firearms and six magazines on a bed, according to an indictment announced Thursday.

ALBANY – Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday unveiled his plan to legalize and tax marijuana for adult use, vowing to wipe records clean for those previously convicted of possessing the drug.

Cuomo's long-awaited marijuana proposal calls for three separate taxes on the drug, all of which would be imposed at the cultivation or wholesale stage, not at retail.

The NYPD has never had a female top cop — but Police Commissioner James O’Neill could see a woman taking the reins once his tenure comes to an end.

“We have a lot of really great women leaders,” O’Neill told The Post on Monday in a wide-ranging, exclusive interview in his 1 Police Plaza office. “They could do the job just as well as any man could do it.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office planned — then abruptly canceled — a police raid on a South Bronx park that has been at the center of Post stories about public drug use and littered syringes, a report said Monday.

Politico New York reported that City Hall had been planning to step up enforcement at St. Mary’s Park in Mott Haven starting Monday following the series of articles, but the sweep was scrapped when the news site reported on the plan.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office decided to release one of two men caught on a wild video being assaulted by baton-wielding police in Washington Heights, officials said Thursday.

The DA will defer charges against Sidney Williams, 37, while seeking assault charges against his running buddy — and possible blood relative — Aaron Grissom, 36.

Police officers were captured on video repeatedly hitting two suspects with batons in a wild arrest on a Washington Heights street Tuesday — and the NYPD is investigating the incident, cops said.

The men were first seen squaring off with the two officers on Broadway near 169th Street at about 2:30 p.m., according to police and a video of the incident.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday called video of NYPD cops using batons against two men in Upper Manhattan “really troubling” — and a police source said the incident could get at least one officer arrested.

De Blasio said “very preliminary” information suggested “that the individuals involved were creating a real problem for neighbors” and may have resisted arrest.

A man with a long history of run-ins with the NYPD said Wednesday that cops clubbed him “like I’m Rodney King” during a caught-on-camera arrest in Upper Manhattan.

The incident, in which another man was also struck with batons and arrested, is under investigation by the Internal Affairs Bureau — and Mayor de Blasio called the video recording “really troubling.”

About 300 more people came forward to report they were raped last year in New York City than the previous year, a sharp increase that officials theorize was fueled in part by the #MeToo movement.

While other violent crimes like murder and assault decreased or remained relatively flat, the police said reported rapes increased 22.4 percent to 1,795 in 2018, up from 1,467 from 2017. A broader category of sex crimes that includes groping and forcible touching also jumped 8.4 percent to 3,873 in 2018, from 3,573 in 2017, according to police statistics.

The NYPD knows that legal weed is coming, but it’s top enforcer has fears about underage smoking and dangerous marijuana grow houses.

“We have to make sure that we’re able to address people that are under 21 that are using marijuana to make sure there are sanctions for that and also to keep young people safe,” NYPD commissioner James O’Neill said Sunday on radio host John Catsimatidis’ AM 970 show, The Cats Roundtable.

These guys are taking the “H” train.

Junkies have turned an upper Manhattan subway station into a squalid drug den — brazenly shooting up on the platform and littering the place with their used syringes.

Outraged neighborhood residents say heroin addicts have all but taken over the West 181st Street station at St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights, and complain that officials are ignoring the latest symptom of the city’s spiraling opioid crisis.

Recidivist criminals committed nearly one of every five New York City murders last year — leading Mayor Bill de Blasio to express “real concerns about the parole system” on Thursday.

NYPD statistics show that parolees and probationers were responsible for 19 percent of the 289 murders recorded during 2018, marking the second year in a row that percentage increased, officials revealed during a news conference at the 67th Precinct station house in Brooklyn.

“We have real concerns about the parole system,” de Blasio said.

NEW YORK — Roving gangs of pickpockets from South America were part of the reason crime spiked in the city's transportation system last year, a top police official said Thursday.

The NYPD recorded a 3.8 percent increase in overall transit crimes in 2018, police statistics show. Chief of Transit Edward Delatorre said the rise was driven by grand larcenies, which also increased citywide last year.

New York’s Muslim community has joined the ranks of minority groups who have organized their own security-based patrols.

Decked out with insignia identical to that of New York City police patrol cars (except for the name), the Muslim Community Patrol (MCP) is watching over parts of Staten Island and Brooklyn that have large Muslim communities.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered a crackdown on a drug-plagued Bronx park in the wake of a Post exposé — and cops are taking no chances.

Marco Lopez, 30, was taking his 6-year-old son, Mark, on a bike ride in St. Mary’s Park in Mott Haven when they stopped for a break at 12:15 p.m. Sunday.

Gov. Cuomo granted clemency to 29 convicts Monday — including four serving lengthy sentences for murder.

Twenty-two of the inmates won pardons, including several immigrants convicted of drug crimes who were facing possible deportation.

New York City Police are scrapping plans to deploy a drone to keep watch over the New Year’s Eve crowd in Times Square for the first time.

Monday’s damp weather is to blame.

That’s the sorry excuse a man arrested for allegedly beating and robbing an 88-year-old Brooklyn granny on Christmas Day gave for the vile crime.

In an exclusive jailhouse interview Sunday, career criminal Marc Malone admitted to The Post that he targeted elderly victim Lyubov Faynshteyn’s Coney Island public-housing building — because he heard its front-door lock was busted.

Former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Sunday morning that the state will be “opening up Pandora’s box” if marijuana is legalized.

“At this particular time, I still strongly oppose it. I think there are too many unanswered questions,” Bratton told 970 AM host John Catsimatidis on his morning radio show, “The Cats Roundtable.” “We still don’t have effective capabilities in law enforcement to deal with the issue of driving while impaired by the use of marijuana. It is as addictive as any other drug.”

A day after Mayor de Blasio promised to change the “reality” of syringe-strewn St. Mary’s Park “very, very quickly,” there was no panic in needle park.

Instead, junkies confidently shot up a storm at the Mott Haven green space on Saturday, brazenly tossing their used spikes on the ground instead of in the city’s special green disposal boxes.

Get ready for high times on the highway.

As New York moves toward legalizing recreational marijuana, the instances of motorists driving while stoned is likely to surge, if the past experience of weed-legal states is any indicator.

In Colorado, where pot sales began in 2014, 69 percent of pot users said they had driven while high at least once in the past year and 27 percent said they drove stoned almost daily, according to preliminary survey results released by that state’s transportation department in April.

A Bronx man stepped out of his home to talk to someone and was shot to death, police said Saturday.

Rodney Bennett, 32, left his apartment on Southern Blvd. near Jennings St. in Foxhurst about 10 p.m. on Friday, witnesses told cops.

The NYPD is ramping up security for the city’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square with more than 1,200 cameras — some installed on high-flying drones — to protect the nearly 2 million expected revelers, police officials said Friday.

One of the high-tech gadgets will be tethered to the top of a building to prevent potential attacks on the wild party below, Police Commissioner James O’Neill said at a press conference.

The city plans to hire six workers just to clean up the fields of syringes littering drug-infested South Bronx parks amid the failure of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s program to get junkies to toss their used needles in special bins.

Asked about The Post’s front-page story on the syringe-dropping plague, the Parks Department said Friday that the new workers — to be hired in January at an annual cost of about $350,000 in salaries and benefits — will be “dedicated to routinely canvassing and cleaning high-volume areas” favored by addicts.

Federal agents seized a record number of drugs in New York state in 2018, including more than half a billion dollars of the opioid painkiller fentanyl.

That’s enough to kill hundreds of millions of people, the DEA’s New York division said Thursday.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The NYPD reported no homicides for six straight days in New York City, and with the year wrapping up, the city may be on track to have fewer murders in 2018 than in 2017.

The five boroughs are on track to have fewer than 300 homicides this year: 283 people were killed in New York City this year. Comparatively, 286 were killed in the city in 2017.

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to have junkies toss their used syringes into special receptacles has failed to clean up drug-infested parks, and the bins are serving more as suggestion boxes — spreading the message that the city is OK with them shooting up there.

Official statistics obtained by The Post from the first six months of de Blasio’s controversial program show that parks in the Bronx are still littered with dangerous hypodermic needles, with nearly 60,000 found on the ground compared with just 7,000 in Hizzoner’s 44 locked containers.

Brooklyn is stayin’ alive.

The borough is on track to end the year with fewer than 100 homicides for the first time in nearly 50 years, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez announced today.

So far, there have been just 97 homicides in 2018, a record low since “modern” record-keeping began in 1970 — and a stark departure from the 800 reported slayings at the height of crack cocaine violence in 1992, his office said.

Police arrested two of the vagrants who were caught on video trying to attack an NYPD cop in a wild melee in a Chinatown subway station, authorities said.

Eliseo Alvarez, 36, was hit with attempted assault, riot, menacing, attempted criminal possession of a weapon and obstructing governmental administration charges, cops said.

The NYPD on Wednesday announced plans to arrest three vagrants in an attack on a lone cop inside a Manhattan subway station — and admitted it never told prosecutors about the incident when the men were later busted for sleeping on the platform.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. came under blistering criticism when prosecutors dropped illegal-sleeping charges against the three men and two others Monday night, with the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and various pols accusing him of turning the subways over to lawbreakers.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. on Wednesday said it’s the NYPD’s fault that his office cut loose the homeless men caught on camera attacking a cop in a Manhattan subway station — because they were only busted for illegally sleeping on the platform, which no longer gets prosecuted under a 2016 accord.

Vance spokesman Danny Frost said prosecutors didn’t know the vagrants “were suspected of anything other than sleeping on the subway” when they got hauled into court Monday night — even though video of the attack, first reported by The Post, prompted multiple news reports earlier in the day.

A New York City police officer is receiving praise for using nonlethal force to fend off five menacing, visibly drunk men on a subway platform, according to authorities and video of the incident.

A video of the confrontation Sunday taped by a bystander and posted on social media shows Officer Syed Ali shouting repeatedly: "Stand back. I don't want to hurt you," as the men approached him in unison. The officer brandished his baton, but does not appear to have reached for his service revolver.

NEW YORK — Bigotry against Jewish people has fueled a spike in hate crimes in New York City in 2018, police statistics show. The NYPD has recorded 352 hate crimes this year as of Sunday, up about 6 percent from 331 in the same time last year.

Jews have been targeted in more than half those incidents. There have been 183 anti-Semitic hate crimes so far this year, a 22 percent increase from last year and a 38.6 percent spike from around the same time in 2016, NYPD figures show.

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Bronx (WABC) -- The innocent woman hospitalized when police officers opened fire on a suspect in the Bronx is speaking out.

Forty-five-year-old Irene Perez was critically injured by NYPD Officer Juan Gomez's stray bullet during a shootout. It happened December 7 in University Heights as Gomez and his partner chased an armed robbery suspect, 36-year-old Edwin Castillo.

An NYPD cop was honored Tuesday for single-handedly battling a group of hostile homeless menin a Manhattan subway station.

Officer Syed Ali got a Christmas Day visit from Councilman Chaim Deutsch (D-Brooklyn) at the NYPD Transit Task Force headquarters in Brooklyn.

New York’s Muslim community has a new security group watching over it.

A car from the new Muslim Community Patrol has been spotted around the city, joining the Jewish enclave’s Shomrim and the Brooklyn Asian Safety Patrol among New York’s culture-specific security groups.

New York’s Muslim community has a new security group watching over it.

A car from the new Muslim Community Patrol has been spotted around the city, joining the Jewish enclave’s Shomrim and the Brooklyn Asian Safety Patrol among New York’s culture-specific security groups.

As many as a dozen drug-sniffing NYPD pooches could be forced into early retirement when New York legalizes weed, the city’s top cop said Friday.

“We’re probably gonna have to end up getting new dogs,” Commissioner James O’Neill told reporters. “It is a concern of ours.”

NEW YORK (WABC) --Mayor Bill de Blasio has thrown his support behind legalizing marijuana in New York City.

At a news conference Thursday morning, the mayor endorsed what he called "the safe and fair legalization of cannabis in New York."

He also unveiled his plan for regulations he says will result in safer streets and more economic opportunities.

Hundreds of low-level marijuana convictions are going up in smoke.

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Wednesday that he’s following through on plans to wipe out more than 1,400 warrants in misdemeanor weed possession cases, as well as over two dozen past convictions.

“The majority of these warrants were issued to black and Latino New Yorkers, and many are remnants of stop-and-frisk policies that harmed many of our communities and that the city has since abandoned,” Gonzalez said in court.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say officers are using their Tasers far more frequently than their firearms.

The NYPD released its 2017 use-of-force report Wednesday. It showed officers opened fire 52 times last year.

That's the lowest number of police shooting incidents since the department began keeping track in 1971. But officers fatally shot 10 suspects in 2017, an increase from nine the previous year.

A client went berserk at a Manhattan welfare office Tuesday, attacking a city peace officer and resisting staff’s request to calm down by howling, “This ain’t f-----g Brooklyn!” — a reference to another recent brawl in a welfare office that ended with NYPD cops snatching a baby from his mother’s arms.

A peace officer suffered a broken wrist in the Tuesday fracas — and cops, when called, showed up but declined to get involved, according to an internal report of the altercation obtained by the Daily News.

Cops are firing their weapons less frequently but resorting to other uses of force more often, the latest NYPD statistics show.

And despite stepped-up training, officers still appear to be grappling with the complexities of dealing with the mentally ill, according to the department’s most recent Use of Force Report.

An NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau review concluded that police officers did nothing wrong when they dragged a one-year-old boy away from his mother at a Brooklyn public service assistance center earlier this month.

According to Politico, the Internal Affairs Bureau found no wrongdoing on the part of the officers involved in the brutal arrest of Jazmine Headley, which went viral earlier this month, and the officers are not expected to face any discipline or change of status.

New York's highest court last week declared that even heavily redacted police disciplinary records can be hidden from public view. It was a dark day for anyone who cares about holding the minority of cops who abuse their authority accountable — which should be everyone.

The dispute centers around a four-decade-old law referred to as 50-a, which limits public access to police and firefighters' disciplinary records.

New York may soon go up in smoke.

Gov. Cuomo on Monday said it’s time to legalize marijuana “once and for all” during a speech previewing his major policy initiatives for 2019.

“Let’s legalize the adult use of recreational marijuana once and for all,” Cuomo said at the New York City Bar Association in Midtown.

The head of the union that represents two Human Resources Administration officers suspended after the video-recorded wrestling of a baby from its mother demanded on Monday that Mayor Bill de Blasio reinstate them and apologize for making them his “sacrificial lambs.”

Teamsters Local 237 president Gregory Floyd has blasted Hizzoner repeatedly in the wake of the Dec. 7 arrest of Jazmine Headley while she was cradling her 1-year-old son in a Brooklyn public benefits office — both for the mayor’s slow public response and for his singling out of HRA officers for rebuke.

Two men were viciously attacked by white hatemongers in separate bias incidents in Manhattan early Monday, police said.

One of the attacks was so vicious that the victim, a 27-year-old aspiring musician, will need titanium plates to rebuild his broken jaw, the man’s family and girlfriend told the Daily News.

Bias crimes are up 5% in the city so far this year — 340 compared to 325 last year. Anti-black incidents are up 27% — 42 this year compared to 33 last year.

Victim advocates are concerned that the New York Police Department may be forcing rape victims to sign “withdrawal” forms that close their cases without ever investigating them, the Appeal reports.

Speaking with The New York Times, Headley opened up about the harrowing incident. 

Police officers might not face repercussions for aggressively handling Jazmine Headley and her 1-year-old daughter, but the 23-year-old is putting justice into her own hands by taking legal action.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Data from the NYPD shows that injuries to school safety officers have seen a decline in consecutive years citywide, down from 121 reported cases in 2016 to only 28 through three quarters of 2018.

While the 2018 statistics only feature 75 percent of the expected data for 2018, a drastic dip in overall injuries is evident.

However, the fourth quarter of the year has been known to see an uptick in overall injuries, according to NYPD data.

A year ago this week, a man detonated a pipe bomb during rush hour inside the passageway connecting the Times Square and Port Authority subway stations. It was the first attempted suicide terrorist attack in NYC since September 11th, although only two people, including the bomber, were hurt. Coinciding with the anniversary, the NYPD rolled out a new security pilot program inside Port Authority: a singular subway metal detector, manned by heavily-armed officers.

The metal detector was installed on Wednesday, the anniversary of Akayed Ullah's pipe bomb attack. As with the NYPD's bag search program, the department says subway riders are chosen randomly for the enhanced screening. NYPD Transit tweeted about it, along with the intimidating photo up above, "Our officers working with our @PANYNJ Police partners this morning at the Port Authority Bus Terminal / 42nd Street subway station in our constant effort to keep travelers safe." Twitter users immediately mocked it, calling it a "nuisance" and a "huge show of security theater."

NEW YORK (CBS New York) – The NYPD reports crime is down citywide, but crimes on the subway or buses are going up.

New York — Law enforcement authorities say a flurry of bomb threats sent electronically across the country are "NOT CREDIBLE," including those in New York City. Multiple reports Thursday said various states, businesses, medical offices and schools were the target of the alleged threats. Dozens of local police departments from coast to coast said they were investigating, but nothing had been found.

"Searches have been conducted and NO DEVICES have been found," NYPD said. "We'll respond to each call regarding these emails to conduct a search but we wanted to share this information so the credibility of these threats can be assessed as likely NOT CREDIBLE."

Police Commissioner James O’Neill is hoping to celebrate the new year in a big way — ending 2018 without New York City seeing a spike in murders or shootings from the previous year.

With roughly two weeks to go before the ball falls in Times Square, the city is poised to end the year like it did in 2017 — with the lowest number of homicides in nearly seven decades.

NYPD officers responding to a shooting in the Bronx opened fire on a suspected gunman, wounding him Wednesday night, police sources said.

Plainclothes officers with the 47th Precinct’s anti-crime unit were patrolling near Cranford Ave. and White Plains Rd. in Wakefield when they heard gunshots at about 7:45 p.m., police said.

They got out of their car and came upon a man toting a silver revolver, NYPD Chief of Patrol Rodney Harrison told reporters.

“The officers yelled, ‘Police, don’t move! Drop the gun!’” Harrison said. When the man pointed his gun at the officers, one of the cops fired a single round, hitting the man in the chest.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Video of the violent arrest of a young mother in Brooklyn is just one of several incidents over the past week weighing on the nation’s largest police force.

Is it just a string of bad luck? Or rather systematic problems finally coming to light for the NYPD?

Police brass can no longer bar officers accused of misconduct from earning overtime, the Daily News has learned.

An arbitration board has reversed the NYPD’s order that cops who have been stripped of their guns and shields and assigned to desk duty as they face internal disciplinary action are not eligible for overtime unless no one else is available to do their assignment.

Charges will be dropped against the mother whose 1-year-old son was forcefully yanked away by New York Police Department officers last week, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement on Tuesday.

Jazmine Headley, 23, was arrested Friday at a Brooklyn social services office and faced four charges, including resisting arrest and acting in a manner injurious to a child.

The latest legal effort by civil rights advocates to force the New York Police Department to make disciplinary records of police officers public failed on Tuesday in the state’s highest court.

The Court of Appeals ruled that the State Civil Rights Law, as it stands now, still allows the department to withhold certain records of misconduct to protect individual officers involved.

A distressing video shows officers trying to pull a baby from its mother during her arrest. Police are investigating the incident.

The New York Police Department said a "troubling" video showing officers trying to pry a 1-year-old from his mother's arms at a Brooklyn social services office is under review.

"They're hurting my son! They're hurting my son," the woman, Jazmine Headley, is heard screaming in the video posted Friday on Facebook.

The head of the NYPD’s sergeants’ union on Sunday blasted the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights charity for bailing out hundreds of accused criminals — many with histories of violence.

“It’s lunacy,” Sergeants Benevolent Association President Ed Mullins said on AM 970’s John Catsimatidis’ “The Cats Roundtable” radio show. “They are beginning to develop a history of posting bail for individuals who are not returning to court, who have a history of crimes.”

The foundation spent $1.2 million to bail out 105 women and teens from Rikers Island in October — despite their criminal histories or charges the faced.

Drones are coming to New York City, and that should worry you. 

So argues the New York Civil Liberties Union, which in a Dec. 7 statement blasts the forthcoming NYPD deployment of the flying surveillance bots as "a serious threat to privacy." The 14 police drones, which the New York Times reports had been acquired by city police in June, are ostensibly to be used for tasks like keeping an eye on large crowds or hostage situations. However, critics see the deployment as the start of a very slippery, privacy-eroding slope. 

After all, large crowds of people often gather together to lawfully protest something like, say, police brutality. Or, as the NYPD specifically notes as a drone-appropriate example (according to the NYCLU), the Women's March. 

KINGSBRIDGE - Deadly crime has more than doubled within the 50th Precinct over the last year, according to the NYPD.

The department says it has seen seven homicides in 2018 so far, compared to three in 2017.

Even though the territories held by extremist groups like al Qaeda and ISIS have been eroded, the groups' global propaganda reach is still proving to be an effective recruitment tool, inspiring uncomplicated but deadly terror attacks on U.S. soil, according to the head of the New York Police Department's Intelligence and Counterterrorism bureaus.

"[T]he unintended consequence of our effectively smashing ISIS and al-Qaeda – the pieces scattered," said Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller in a recent interview with Intelligence Matters host and CBS News senior national security contributor Michael Morell.

The NYPD is buzzing about it’s new fleet of drones — but not all of the buzz is good.

The department announced Tuesday that it has acquired 14 drones that will be soon be deployed across the city during emergencies, officials said.

The NYPD’s Technical Assistance and Response Unit will be utilizing the drones to assist in rescue missions, inaccessible crime scenes and hostage situations.

“As the largest municipal police department in the United States, the NYPD must always be willing to leverage the benefits of new and always-improving technology,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said in a statement. “Our new (unmanned aircraft system) program is part of this evolution.”

The NYPD enjoyed a November to remember as monthly crime figures indicated that 2018 could set a record low for crimes in a calendar year.

The safest November in modern NYPD history ended last week with a 5% overall decrease in crime compared with November 2017. Police said the drop was spurred by a 15.8% drop in burglaries and an 11.8% plunge in robberies.

“The NYPD has once again done what a lot of people said was impossible,” said Mayor de Blasio. “(Last year) was a record year for lower crime — and the NYPD is starting to surpass that record.”

Critics of the NYPD’s handling of disciplinary cases want a panel reviewing the system to give the task to an outside agency.

But moving NYPD administrative trials to the Office of Trials and Hearings — which conducts hearings for all city workers except police officers and teachers — would face multiple hurdles, including either a legal change, or deputizing the agency’s judge to preside over NYPD trials.

And it’d likely spark stiff opposition from the city’s biggest police union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, whose president, Pat Lynch, defends police administrative judges as the best arbiters of NYPD rules and practices.

Hundreds of crimes occurred in and around a handful of stops last year, a recent report shows.

NEW YORK — Riding the subway can often be a pain, but certain stops can be downright dangerous. A handful of the city's bustling transit hubs saw hundreds of crimes last year, a recent report shows.

The Auto Insurance Center used publicly available 2017 crime data to create a list of the city's most crime-ridden subway stops and determine which offenses were most common within the transit system.

Women generally experience more forms of harassment than men and it’s costing us: Data from a new study shows that, on average, women pay more to get around New York City than men do due to safety reasons. Looks like there’s a Pink Tax on transportation, too.

A new study from the New York University Rudin Center for Transportation suggests that the median extra transportation cost per month for women, due to safety reasons, is between $26 to $50.

'It All Has To Stop': Mayor De Blasio, NYPD Commissioner O'Neill Discuss Rash Of Attacks That Have Rocked Jewish, Black Communities

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The NYPD released its latest crime statistics on Wednesday, and they show a disturbing increase.

While overall crime is down, the department says bias attacks are on the rise.

Murders, rapes and the Manhattan crime rate are up, the NYPD revealed on Wednesday.

At the same time, however, fewer people have been shot this year citywide and the crime rate for the city — comprised of rapes, murders and five other major crimes — is down 1%.

The close of the third quarter saw homicides in New York City spike by six percent over the same period last year, despite a relatively safe summer and a small drop in overall serious crime from 2017, according to the latest NYPD statistics.   

Homicides through Sept. 30 totaled 228 compared to 215 in the same period for 2017, a year that ended with 292 homicide and manslaughter cases — a record low for killings in the modern era of police record keeping.

— NY Times: “Here in New York, a range of changes in the criminal justice system will touch every corner of the city — from those caught smoking marijuana on the street to neighborhoods that may soon host new jails.”

— NY Times: “Nearly two decades ago, in a Manhattan subway station, a mentally ill man shoved Kendra Webdale, a promising young writer, to her death in front of an oncoming N train. It was a horrific crime that shocked the city and the nation, highlighting deep flaws in the care of seriously mentally ill people and spurring a wave of state laws that use court orders to move them into outpatient treatment.”

— NY Daily News: “Outraged community leaders on Monday demanded action after five people overdosed during the weekend on the same Brooklyn streetcorner where more than 100 users have fallen victim to a crippling K2 epidemic.”

— NY Post: “A Bronx teen who became the poster boy for citywide bail reform could have his police misconduct lawsuit against the city tossed as soon as this week — because no lawyer wants to touch it.”

— NY1 News: “Neighbors weren't surprised Saturday to hear another group of people overdosed on K2 at the corner of Broadway and Myrtle Avenue in Bushwick in the morning.”

— New York Post: Erase your pot past — by going to church! Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on Friday announced a first-of-its-kind program that gives people with low-level marijuana convictions the opportunity to have them expunged from their records forever.

— NY Times: “Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, is expected to announce next week that his office will vacate misdemeanor marijuana warrants dating to 1978. In Brooklyn, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez is going further, offering people with low-level convictions for marijuana possession the chance to have them vacated and the underlying charges dismissed.”

— New York Post: One teen stabbed another with a hair pick, an enraged mom pulled a knife on a school safety agent, and 12 weapons were seized at security checkpoints on a violent first day of classes in the Big Apple on Wednesday, officials and sources said.

— AM NY: “New York City’s long hot summer of 2018 turned out to be cooler when it came to serious crime. July and August of 2018 were the safest summer months in modern city history in terms of homicides and shootings, officials said Tuesday.”

— New York Post: “A woman went berserk on cops in Midtown on Tuesday afternoon — biting one, assaulting two others with a chemical spray and waving a hammer around, according to police and...”

— New York Post: “If the NYPD keeps letting loudmouths harass cops, disaster is sure to follow. As The Post has reported, vulgar tirades against officers are on the rise, and cops are ignoring...”

— New York Post: “Several videos of people berating and taunting our police officers have recently appeared on social media. For the public, viewing this ignorant spite might come as a shock. But for...”

— New York Post: “Mayor de Blasio on Monday told loudmouths subjecting NYPD officers to brazen bouts of nasty verbal abuse to “knock it off,’’ but police insiders dismissed the support as “too little...” 

— New York Post: “City criminals are getting so bold that one even whipped out and racked his gun while standing next to an NYPD patrol car, then went across the street and shot...”

— New York Post: “Warning: Graphic language Cops are increasingly being subjected to vicious verbal abuse on New York City streets — and doing next to nothing about it — because of a hands-off...

— CBS News: “First on 'CBS This Morning,' a new report released Friday reveals how some of America's police academies are addressing racial bias in the wake of controversies over shootings and the use of force.”

— New York Daily News: “An NYPD sergeant was left stammering as a man began cursing him out inside his Harlem police precinct, according to a new viral video showcasing the continued disrespect of police.”

— New York Post: “The number of city students charged with felony sex crimes skyrocketed by 138 percent during the last academic year, according to a Post analysis of NYPD school-safety data.”

— New York Daily News: “deadly force by police officers across the United States, we can confirm that the killing of black suspects is definitely a police problem.”

— New York Post: “For the second time in days, the NYPD has hurriedly reopened a criminal investigation after cops’ initial inaction was splashed across The Post’s front page.”

— New York Post: “A self-described “schizophrenic” threw a brick at his Washington Heights neighbor this week and lunged at her with a knife, yet was back on the street less than 24 hours after cops picked him up.”

— New York Daily News: “Several NYPD cops called to a Bronx home for a dispute were heckled and cursed out of the building by enraged residents, shocking Facebook”

— New York Post: “The NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund is suing the NYPD for information about the classification of gang members.”

— New York Law Journal: “A Manhattan judge has ordered the New York City Police Department to release a trove of documents from the case of Ramarley Graham, who was shot and killed in 2012 by an officer who has since left the department.”

— New York Post: "Dozens of widows of NYPD officers slain in the line of duty joined the department’s largest union Tuesday to demand that the government fix a loophole that lets paroled cop-killers back on the streets."

— NY1: Police precincts across the city took part Tuesday in the National Night Out Against Crime, held every year on the first Tuesday of August.

This year, there was a special focus on the 48th Precinct in The Bronx, where 15-year-old Lesandro Guzman-Feliz was stabbed to death by alleged gang members in June. 

— AMNY: “The latest NYPD data showed that major felonies — including homicide, rape and robbery — decreased about two percent in July compared to the same period in 2017.”

— NY1: “Inside a steamy parking garage on the Fordham University Campus, the Explorer Academy is in session.”

— Patch: “Four kids age 16 or younger were slaughtered in Brooklyn gang violence last month, the NYPD said.”

— NY1: “The NYPD announced Wednesday that it will no longer arrest people who jump subway turnstiles and have a low-level summons warrant on their record.”

— AMNY: “There are legitimate concerns in terms of not portraying information that interferes with the work of the NYPD,” the mayor said.”

— NBC New York: “"There has to be a culture of consequence," said Mayor de Blasio. "There has to be a realization that anyone who thinks that they can get away with having an illegal gun in New York City, that that is not going to work."

— NY1: "NEW YORK - The New York City Police Department is ramping up policing efforts, this time below city streets.

Fifteen percent more uniformed officers will start patrolling trains and subway platforms.

They're expanding policing to four transit districts and eventually to all 12 districts by 2019."

— Wall Street Journal: Politicians and advocates in major cities are scrutinizing police departments for the way they label and track suspected gang members, saying the methods lack oversight and unfairly expose minorities to the criminal justice system.

Police departments in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago use databases that include thousands of people, mostly minorities, some of whom haven’t been arrested for a crime.

More than a half-dozen Trinitarios gang members went berserk in a city jail on Saturday, smashing windows and toppling furniture after one of them learned a friend would be moved to another facility, sources told The Post.

The mini-riot — on the 800-bed Vernon C. Bain Center jail barge — was so violent that a correction officer tried to break it up using pepper spray, but wound up fleeing for her life, the sources said.

Wall Street Journal: “The NYPD is slowly embedding analysts into specialty squads as well. Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea, who is doing a “top to bottom” review ...”

"There's stuff you see and stuff you don't see," he said of NYPD's ongoing efforts. The park, the sergeant said, has seen improvements, but”

New York Daily News: “A federal judge Thursday ordered the NYPD to start a pilot program that could force officers to document hundreds of thousands of more street encounters.”

New York Post: “supported the facilitator’s recommendations, with some minor tweaks, while the NYPD has rejected it, saying that it “is neither practical”

“Like all successful politicians, Mayor Bill de Blasio knows how to present bad news as good news. To aide him, he has enablers at the NYPD.”

THREE WEEKS INTO his new job as commanding officer of Manhattan’s 20th precinct, Captain Timothy J. Malin stared at a map on his computer screen, puzzled. It showed his jurisdiction carved up by streets and parks, with the southern edge encased in an ominous shade of red.

For decades, the New York Police Department has used real-time statistics to chart spikes in violence and calibrate police activity across the city. This map, however, displayed not crime data but something new in the arsenal of police metrics: public approval. The crimson on Malin’s map indicated that some residents in his precinct, the Upper West Side—one of New York City’s wealthiest and safest neighborhoods—reported feeling little trust in his officers. It was Malin’s job to figure out why. “I look at that, and I am like, ‘Okay? What’s causing this?’” he said.

The NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s office are locked in a bitter standoff over what information cops will turn over to prosecutors, and when and how that handoff happens.

The DA wants systematic electronic access to police disciplinary records and investigative files, including witness reports, to understand cases’ strengths and weaknesses, drop charges when appropriate, and, when the law requires, share evidence with defense attorneys. The police say they’re already being perfectly responsive, and claim Vance is overreaching dangerously by trying to get an unfiltered pipeline into the most sensitive files.

An unarmed black man holding a cellphone, Stephon Clark, is fatally shot in his grandmother’s backyard in Sacramento and residents ask whether the officers only saw race when pulling their triggers 20 times.

Saheed Vassell, a mentally ill black man waving a pistol-shaped metal car part at pedestrians, is gunned down by police officers on a street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and the outrage focuses on whether deep-seated prejudices fueled the quick use of deadly force.

Two black men are led in handcuffs from a Starbucks in Philadelphia and alarm bells go off: Had the officers unconsciously adopted the racial bias of the store employee who called the police?

While explicit bias remains part of the fabric of life in the United States, elected leaders and chiefs of police have increasingly focused on what is often called implicit bias, inherently unintentional yet more pervasive.

Ever wonder why Bryant Park and Union Square are junkie-free but not always Washington Square Park?

That’s because New York University, which owns most of the buildings surrounding the park, has a love/hate relationship with the community.

We sure hope the whiplash didn't hurt state Sen. Marty Golden too much.

Golden — a Brooklyn Republican whose political shenanigans at the end of session in Albany last month helped deep-six widely supported plans to reup, much less expand, life-saving speed cameras on city streets — succumbed to political pressure Wednesday, finally urging Senate leader John Flanagan to convene a special session to right the wrong before the cams go dark July 25

An 8 percent jump in homicides citywide is troubling; more worrisome is that it’s driven by a nearly 65 percent spike in the Bronx. We trust the NYPD to turn the numbers around — but can only hope it will have the full support of local politicians.

To be fair, the percentage increase is so big mostly because New York’s Finest have brought crime so far down over the last quarter-century: The 51 homicides in the Bronx in the first six months of the year is up just 20 over the same period in 2017.

Mayor de Blasio attended a police-statistics briefing Tuesday detailing the city’s gang-driven murder spike, and invited two fellow pols — who blindsided the NYPD’s top cop with gripes about crime in their districts.

Just as Police Commissioner James O’Neill opened up to media questions about his department’s latest stats — including an 8.1 percent rise in slayings — de Blasio interrupted to turn the mic over to his guests.

New York Post: “Warring gangs have driven New York’s murder rate to an 8 percent spike through the first half of the year, authorities said Tuesday. The city saw 147 murders through the...”

Gothamist: “While the city's overall crime rate continues to drop, the first six months of this year saw a spike in the number of rapes and murders, the NYPD announced on Tuesday.”

Wall Street Journal: “Murders and rapes have increased in New York City so far this year, even as overall crime continues to fall to historic lows, the NYPD said Tuesday.”

New York Post: “The NYPD on Tuesday defended their use of a $3 million counterterrorism plane to shuttle Mayor Bill de Blasio back and forth between the city and his Canadian vacation. “

New York Post: The NYPD told Bronx precinct bosses to make sure there are no prisoners in their station house for Mayor de Blasio's Tuesday press ...

New York Post: “A 12th suspect in the brutal slaying of a Bronx teenager was picked up in Connecticut on Monday, law enforcement sources said. Luis A. Cabrarasantos, 25, was pulled over by...”

NY Post: “New York started following San Francisco’s lead in 2016 when Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. announced his office would no longer be prosecuting offenses such as public urination. Both cities have accepted that they’ll continue to have a large number of people living on their streets and inevitably using their sidewalks as a toilet.”

The Crime Report:  “New York City will spend $1.8 million this year to roll out “mobile trauma units” — buses filled with counselors and peacekeepers — to crime scenes throughout the city in an effort to ease tensions in communities after acts of gun violence”

AM NY: In June, New York City just missed matching its lowest crime report ever for that month by 28 incidents, a top NYPD official said Wednesday.”

NY Daily News: “A training curriculum could turn witnesses to crimes into proactive good Samaritans, a Bronx City Council member proposed Monday in the wake of allegations that bodega workers didn’t do enough to help a teen who was dragged from their store and fatally stabbed.”

NY Daily News: “Gang violence is ugly in any form, but the killing of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz was an unspeakably savage act. The images of him being dragged from a store and then repeatedly stabbed and hacked are the definition of horror. The depraved indifference to this boy’s life is made all the worse in that the child who the gang was destroying wasn’t even their intended target.”

NY Post: “The Bronx teen who became a cause célèbre for bail reform has been arrested — for the 12th time — for driving offenses, sources told The Post on Monday. Pedro Hernandez was nabbed Sunday night at Jerome Avenue and 170th Street in the Bronx for weaving in and out of traffic, sources said.”

NY Post: “NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill called on Bronx residents to help clear the borough’s streets of bloodthirsty gangbangers — like the Trinitarios thugs behind the “unspeakable” murder of young Lesandro Guzman-Feliz.”

NY Daily News: “Let there be no misunderstanding, now that young Lesandro Guzman-Feliz lies in the earth, the blood let from his neck like an animal: The slaughter of a promising 15-year-old Bronx boy known as Junior at the hands of criminal gang members who mistook him for their intended target cannot be left to melt in the heat of passions over the proper reach of the criminal justice system into the lives of young men of color.”

NY Post: “One of the most scrutinized police forces in America — the NYPD — is facing yet more oversight: An outside panel is launching a 120-day review of the department’s discipline policies. This time, for a change, it’s warranted.”

NY Post: “Murders in the Bronx have skyrocketed in 2018, nearly doubling compared to the same period last year, according to newly released crime statistics from the NYPD.”

WSJ: “The New York Police Department said Tuesday that its Special Victims Division will carry out all acquaintance and domestic sex-crime investigations even after an immediate arrest is made, no longer relying on precinct detectives to gather evidence and complete such investigations. The department announced the change in its response to a highly critical report by New York City’s Department of Investigation in March that accused top brass of failing to adequately staff the division.

NY Daily News: “One tragedy of the recently ended state legislative session is that New York has again failed to take action on a basic penal reform that should have been fixed decades ago: the indefensible practice of jailing people accused of minor crimes simply because they lack a few hundred dollars to make bail.”

NY Post: “The NYPD released a response to a scathing Inspector General’s report on Tuesday, stating that they were working to “strengthen and bolster” the Special Victim’s Division while taking issue with some the IGs findings.”

NY Post: “A trio of City Council members says the deli owner who didn’t intervene when gangbangers dragged an innocent teen from his deli and slaughtered him should have his store shuttered.”

AM New York: “Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday signed seven bills intended to broaden access to antidotes that reverse drug overdoses and teach medics, schoolchildren and the public more about opioids. The law covers schools, homeless shelters, needle exchanges and other places where the city’s anti-opioid message can reach drug users, and prospective drug users.”

NY Daily News: “A Bronx teen whose jail horror story became the backdrop for a debate on reforming the city’s bail system will likely have a traffic case against him dismissed. Pedro Hernandez, 18, was picked up in Washington Heights earlier this month and brought to Manhattan Criminal Court after he made an illegal U-turn while driving on a suspended license, authorities said.”

NY Daily News: “A Bronx teen whose jail horror story became the backdrop for a debate on reforming the city’s bail system will likely have a traffic case against him dismissed. Pedro Hernandez, 18, was picked up in Washington Heights earlier this month and brought to Manhattan Criminal Court after he made an illegal U-turn while driving on a suspended license, authorities said.”

NY Daily News: “The city released thousands of pages of incident reports Friday to state overseers, documenting everything from assaults to drug dealing to arrests inside homeless shelters. The release followed a Daily News expose in May documenting how the city Department of Homeless Services had stopped reporting hundreds of arrests for a wide variety of criminal activity inside shelters across the city. That included not reporting assaults that didn’t result in visible injury.

NY Daily News: “The city released thousands of pages of incident reports Friday to state overseers, documenting everything from assaults to drug dealing to arrests inside homeless shelters. The release followed a Daily News expose in May documenting how the city Department of Homeless Services had stopped reporting hundreds of arrests for a wide variety of criminal activity inside shelters across the city. That included not reporting assaults that didn’t result in visible injury.

Staten Island Advance: “A neighborhood watch group promises to transform a plagued Staten Island park into a scene from the war-torn Middle East if officials don't crack down on the blatant lawlessness.”

City Limits: “Official stop numbers have plummeted since a groundbreaking federal lawsuit in 2013 ruled the NYPD’s stop and frisk tactics unconstitutional. But those statistics only reflect the most serious type of stop. Other encounters which don’t meet the standard of a high-level stop take place without leaving a trace in the public record. While the NYPD calls such stops “low-level,” advocates say they can still leave residents feeling intimidated and targeted, such as when the officer approached Dister and his friend.”

NY Post: “Gangbangers peddle drugs in plain sight, hustlers resell cheap booze on the street corner — 50 cents will get you a capful — and prostitutes lead johns to the boarded-up husk of what used to be a Taco Bell. This is Tompkinsville Park on Staten Island’s North Shore in 2018 and, to area residents and merchants caught in its heroin- and K2-infested vortex, this is a battlefield.”

Wall Street Journal: “New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new marijuana policy was met with a backlash from the Manhattan district attorney and advocates, who said the change wouldn’t do enough to diminish racial disparities among those who face punishment for the low-level crime.”

ABC 7 News: “New York City unveiled a major new plan concerning marijuana enforcement Tuesday. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O'Neill discussed the new policy, which for some people means they won't be arrested if they are caught with pot. It comes after critics accused the prior policy of targeting minorities and for being too harsh.

NY Daily News: “Never mind the “gang database” alarmism. That the NYPD keeps a list of members of groups thought to be involved in street crime — the better to prevent violence and catch perpetrators — should comfort New Yorkers.

ABC 7 News: “The NYPD is rolling out its plan to counter the typical summer spike in crime. "Summer All Out" is a program the NYPD launched four years ago. It calls for putting more police officers in the streets during the hottest months of the year.”

CBS 2 News: “The NYPD’s gang database is a list designed to fight gangs in the city, but some argue it’s being used to brand the innocent.”

NY Times: “By a slim margin, the New York City Council on Tuesday approved two bills requiring changes to day-to-day interactions between police officers and those they encounter on the street, measures that drew strong opposition from both criminal justice reform groups and the city’s largest officers’ union.”

NY Post: “The NYPD slammed a City Council bill that encourages citizens to sue the city when cops stop them from recording police activity or seize their recording equipment. The proposal, sponsored by Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn), would create a city law recognizing people’s right to record police activity and would allow them to sue for damages and attorney’s fees for interference.”

NY Times: “A new law enacted in June gave New York City police officers the discretion to issue a civil summons, rather than a criminal one, for offenses such as public urination and public drinking. It appears that many officers have opted to do neither.”

NY Times: “After years of public debate and months of negotiations, New York City began directing its police officers on Tuesday to issue civil tickets rather than criminal summonses for petty offenses such as public drinking and public urination.”