The Bronx
The suspect pictured above picked the wrong time of day to rob a Foxhurt dry-cleaning store at gunpoint, fleeing empty-handed because the place had just opened up and had no cash on hand, authorities said. He walked into Kathy’s Dry Cleaners on Westchester Avenue near Bryant Avenue at about 10 a.m. Monday and pointed a semi-automatic handgun at an employee, cops said. He took the 57-year-old worker’s wallet but found it contained no cash. He then ordered the employee to open the register, but learned that it, too, was empty. The worker explained that the store banked its cash nightly and opened daily with an empty till. The gunman then fled with nada. He was described as about 6 feet tall and was last seen wearing blue jogging pants with white stripes, a brown coat with a turtle neck covering his face and a black skull cap, authorities said.
Queens
Police released new surveillance photos of a suspect (above) wanted in the robbery of a Rego Park bank. According to cops, he walked into the Astoria Bank branch on Queens Boulevard near 64th Avenue at about 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 21 and handed the teller a note demanding cash, authorities said. The employee pushed out $2,600 to the robber, who fled with it. The perpetrator is described as about 5-foot-10 and 200 pounds and was last seen wearing a black leopard-print jacket with a hooded sweat shirt underneath.
A bouncer at a Corona bar slashed a patron with a knife, police said. The altercation started when the bouncer for undisclosed reasons attempted to eject the 33-year-old customer from Mala Noche Bar on 104th Street near Roosevelt Avenue at 4 a.m. Monday. The men ended up outside where they squared off, and then the bouncer pulled a knife, sliced the foe’s chest and fled. The victim was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital in critical but stable condition, police said. Police were working to identify the bouncer.
Manhattan
Police are looking for eight suspects (one pictured above) who were involved in the shooting early Christmas morning of a man in Harlem, said law-enforcement authorities. The 34-year-old victim was approached by the group on West 116th Street near Manhattan Avenue at about 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 25, cops said. After a brief argument, one of the suspects pulled a gun and fired several shots, one of which struck the man in the right leg. The group then beat the wounded man for a few minutes or so, then fled. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was reported in stable condition. The suspect seen in the surveillance photo was described as in his late teens or early 20s with a scar under his eye, authorities said. He was last seen wearing a black hooded sweat shirt.
Police arrested the driver who fatally struck a pedestrian in Gramercy Park, sources said. Mirsad Dzaferovic, 34, was charged with running over 29-year-old Anthony Pham, who had been crossing the FDR Drive roadway near East 28th Street at about 1 a.m. last Friday, cops said. The driver fled the scene in a gray sedan, leaving Pham in the roadway with severe head and body trauma. Pham was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital. Dzaferovic was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, police said.
Brooklyn
A man assaulted and robbed a 67-year-old woman an the elevator of her Downtown Brooklyn apartment building, authorities said. The victim was on board the lift when he entered on the second floor of the building on Navy Walk at the Ingersoll Houses at about 7:40 p.m. Monday. As the woman tried to exit the elevator, he forced her back, knocked her to the floor and punched her in the face repeatedly, cops said. He then snatched her purse containing $200, a cellphone, keys and a benefits card. He got off the elevator on the fourth floor and fled the building by a stairwell. The victim was rushed to Brookdale Hospital where she received 10 stitches for a busted lip, said law- enforcement authorities.