Manhattan
A graffiti vandal did his dirty work at an Inwood church’s 9/11 memorial garden, police said.
The tagger sprayed paint on the walls of the site honoring neighborhood victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks, cops said.
The crime occurred sometime between last Wednesday and Friday at the Church of the Good Shepherd at 4967 Broadway. On Friday, a parishioner discovered the vandal’s handiwork.
The Catholic school next door was marred with similar markings, neighborhood leaders said.
Before the church member discovered the crime Friday, cops the day before busted Alex Fernandez, 27, a block away with a yellow can of spray paint in hand, police said.
Scrawls were on a wall in front of him as he stood at West 207th Street and Broadway, cops said.
Fernandez, of Teaneck, NJ, was charged with making graffiti and possessing graffiti-making instruments, police said.
“The garden memorial is a symbolic monument to the brave souls who gave their lives helping to save others on that infamous day,” said Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez.
“Therefore, this is an affront not only to the Inwood community, but to the city of New York.”
An Upper West Side resident was gunned down execution-style in East Harlem, police sources said.
Joseph Osbourne, 29, of West 104th Street, was standing with seven friends outside the Taft Houses on Madison Avenue near 112th Street at around 3:40 p.m. Monday when a gunman walked up and fired a single shot into Osbourne’s neck, cops said.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
Osbourne had had several run-ins with cops, mostly over narcotics, law-enforcement sources said.
No arrests have been made.
Brooklyn
A man shot dead in Bedford-Stuyvesant Monday morning struggled until his last breath, and then a heartless passerby grabbed something the victim had dropped on the sidewalk, police sources said Monday.
Corey Gouldbourne, 33, was shot several times in the legs and chest in front of the Tompkins Houses at around 6:10 a.m. Monday, cops said.
He dragged himself several feet toward the corner, where he collapsed and died, police said.
The passerby picked up an item that Gouldbourne had dropped in his final moments, the sources said.
Police do not believe the theft had anything to do with the shooting of Gouldbourne, who had walked from a nearby building with the man who then shot him dead.
The shooter ran back inside the Tompkins Avenue building and Gouldbourne was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The motive wasn’t clear Tuesday, but investigators believe it wasn’t robbery because the victim’s wallet hadn’t been taken.
Police aren’t sure what the passerby took from the victim.
No arrests have been made.
The fire that killed an elderly Borough Park woman Monday was caused by poorly rigged wiring in an illegal subdivision, authorities said Tuesday.
Yukyuen Ho, 82, died in the inferno that began in the basement at around 1:30 p.m. and tore through the two-story attached home on 57th Street, where at least 10 people lived, witnesses said.
Investigators found the victim in the basement, sources said.
The FDNY announced that the fire had been caused by connected power strips that snaked through the building.
The Bronx
Cops have nabbed two suspects in the fatal shooting of a man in Throggs Neck.
Jamel Taylor, 24, was killed in front of the Throggs Neck Houses on Schley Avenue near East 177th Street at around 8:50 p.m. on Nov. 22.
The victim was shot in the buttocks, and the bullet went into his body and exited through his naval, police said.
Taylor was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Police arrested Maliek Hill, 22, on Friday and Darrel Harris, 20, on Monday.
They were charged with murder and criminal use of a firearm.
The victim had been arrested 43 times for drugs and assault, among other charges, law-enforcement sources said.
Staten Island
A pickpocket was busted after riders on the Staten Island Ferry saw him take cash from a woman’s pocket, authorities said.
Allen King, 31, dipped his hands into a woman’s pocket on the ferry at around 12:15 p.m. Monday and pulled out cash, law-enforcement sources said.
Witnesses tipped off the woman and she realized she was missing $170, the sources said.
The woman alerted cops, who canvassed the area and found King with the cash, officials said.
King was charged with grand larceny, petit larceny and possession of stolen property, according to a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.