MANHATTAN
* This is the man being sought for stabbing a 71-year-old retired nurse during a robbery outside her Upper East Side home.
The suspect accosted Barbara Mirbt on East 83rd Street, near her apartment, shortly after midnight on Wednesday.
The suspect demanded her bag – and when Mirbt was slow to comply, he stabbed her in the abdomen before making off with approximately $1,500 she was planning to use for a trip, sources said. Mirbt was taken to New York Hospital, where she was treated and released.
BRONX
* An armed robber forced his way into the cafeteria of Bronx Community College just before closing time last night and forced the manager to turn over approximately $12,000 in cash.
The robber surprised four workers, ordering them to lay on the floor in a locked storage room. He then led a frightened manager to a safe at gunpoint, demanding the day’s receipts. After the manager complied, the suspect forced him to join the other employees.
Brooklyn
* A man was shot dead in the hallway of a Crown Heights building, police said yesterday.
Cops went to Montgomery Street near Rogers Avenue shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday and found the body of the 41-year- old man. His name was withheld pending family notification.
* A teen was stabbed to death in Crown Heights, cops said yesterday.
The 17-year-old had been standing on St. Johns Place near Troy Avenue shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday when the attacker pulled a knife and stabbed him once in the chest.
The youth died at Kings County Hospital.
* An employee was arrested after he attacked a man with a hammer at a downtown Brooklyn car wash, cops said.
Colby Baboucar, 23, witnessed a kid toying with the air pump while filling a bike tire at the car wash on Flatbush Avenue Extension near Willoughby Street at 8 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
He got angry and pushed the boy, and the youngster’s uncle stepped in, cops said. After a brief argument, the uncle and the child left – but the kid soon returned after with another uncle.
The uncle confronted Baboucar and a fight ensued, sources said, then Baboucar struck his foe in the head with a hammer.
Cops broke up the melee, and the injured man was taken to Long Island College Hospital.
Queens
* Police are hunting for a killer who gunned down a man in Kew Gardens Hills.
Cops said the 24-year-old victim, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was shot once in the face and once in the chest on 157th Street near Jewel Avenue shortly after 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. He died at New York Hospital Queens.
Staten Island
* A squabble over a woman between two former friends in Midland Beach landed one in the hospital and the other behind bars.
Last Saturday at 2 a.m., William Bergsma, 47, went to the home of the 49-year-old victim on Colony Avenue, entered through an unlocked front door and broke three of his foe’s ribs with a metal baseball bat, sources said.
On Monday, Bergsma left a threatening phone message for his former friend, threatening, “I’m coming back to finish you off,” court papers allege.
The victim called cops and Bergsma was arrested Wednesday, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
* A man wanted for shooting and robbing a man in Stapleton was nabbed when he showed up for a visit with his parole officer.
Ibrahim Black, 29 had accompanied a 28-year-old friend to a fifth-floor apartment in the Stapleton Houses to buy marijuana shortly after 3:30 a.m. on Aug. 28, authorities said. The friend went into the apartment while Black waited outside. When his pal returned, Black allegedly pulled a gun and tried to rob him.
As the friend fled, Black allegedly fired three shots, hitting the man once in the lower back.
The friend was hospitalized but has since recovered. Black, on parole following a 2002 robbery conviction, was arrested Wednesday when he showed up for a scheduled meeting with his parole officer.
* A New Jersey man was busted for swindling a woman he met via the Internet, cops said yesterday.
Jared Winans, 28, had met the 30-year-old woman online, and they agreed to meet for a date on May 31, sources said.
They had dinner in New Dorp, and the woman used her credit card to pay the bill.
When she got her card statement, she saw that several unauthorized charges had been made by someone using her card number in New Jersey and Massachusetts, sources said.
Winans was arrested Tuesday.