Manhattan
A pack of thugs punched, kicked and stabbed a teen for his bike in East Harlem.
The five assailants accosted the 16-year-old on East 120th Street at about 10:20 p.m. May 31, pummeling him and stealing the bicycle.
The victim took a cab to North General Hospital.
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A thief pistol-whipped a parking attendant after he refused to give the thug the keys to cars in an Upper East Side garage, cops said yesterday.
Jeffrey Green, 20, allegedly pulled the gun on the attendant in the garage on East 64th Street near Third Avenue just after midnight Sunday.
After demanding the keys, Green got into a struggle with the worker and pistol-whipped him in the head, police said.
Green fled, but was soon busted and charged with assault and attempted robbery.
Brooklyn
A man leaving a building at a Greenpoint housing project was ambushed and shot, police sources said yesterday.
The 29-year-old man was coming out of the Cooper Park Houses on Morgan Avenue near Frost Street at 7:30 p.m. on May 31 when the gunman confronted him and shot him in the chest and right hip. The shooter fled.
The victim was treated at Bellevue in Manhattan for injuries that were not life-threatening.
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A thug shot a man in the foot in East Flatbush, police said yesterday.
For unspecified reasons, the assailant trained a handgun on the 23-year-old victim at Troy Avenue and Avenue I at 9:50 p.m. on May 31.
The victim pushed the gun down and away as the perp opened fire, grazing his right foot.
The shooter fled.
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A teacher at a Greek Orthodox elementary school in Midwood was charged with sexually assaulting a student in a classroom, police sources said yesterday.
Dimitrios Chantzis, 56, was arrested Monday for the alleged assault at the Three Hierarchs Parochial School.
Chantzis, a Borough Park resident, allegedly exposed himself to the 7-year-old girl, forced her to touch him and kissed her on the mouth.
The school, on Avenue P, has about 100 students.
Bronx
A disturbed man jumped off the 145th Street Bridge yesterday.
The unidentified man plunged into the Harlem River at around 6:30 p.m. then swam out and rode a bicycle down a set of inactive railroad tracks.
Cops nabbed him 30 minutes later and took him to Lincoln Hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
In a bizarre twist, a witness told cops that a woman and a baby also plunged off the bridge.
NYPD divers did not find anyone and the search was called off, police said. They would not say if the search would continue today.
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Talk about adding insult to injury.
Emilio Reyes, 41, shot himself in the hand — then got busted for gun possession, police said.
Reyes was feeling dejected after clashing with his girlfriend in a building on Sheridan Avenue near East 172nd Street in Mount Eden at 4:30 p.m. on May 30, sources said.
He allegedly retrieved a .22-caliber gun and shot himself.
He tried to go to sleep on a couch, but the wound hurt too much and he went for treatment at Bronx Lebanon Hospital.
Police recovered the gun and arrested Reyes.
Queens
A Jersey City man was arrested after he stabbed a straphanger on a subway train in Howard Beach, police said yesterday.
José Torres, 26, clashed with the 22-year-old victim aboard a Manhattan-bound A train at the Howard Beach station at 6:30 p.m. on May 31, police said.
Torres allegedly pulled a knife and poked the victim in the side, causing minor injuries.
Torres left the train, but was soon apprehended and charged with assault.
It was unclear what the dispute was about.
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Police yesterday discovered the body of 75-year-old Flushing man who had been missing since Saturday.
Koon Kwan Li, who sources said had been battling depression, was found dead just after 3 p.m. in Flushing Meadows Park.
Cops said there was no criminality suspected.
Staten Island
He must have rocks in his head.
Ruben Rivera, 19, was busted after he smashed two windows with concrete blocks in New Dorp, authorities said yesterday.
Rivera got into a beef with an acquaintance’s grandmother and allegedly shattered a window on her car with a cement block on Cuba Avenue near Ebbitts Street at about 6 a.m. on May 31.
He then allegedly broke a window in her house with another concrete block and fled.
A witness spotted Rivera and called police, who tracked him down Monday.
Rivera was charged with criminal mischief, a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said.