Manhattan
A man ripped off a woman’s fingernail during a fight that began when she started snapping pictures in their Hell’s Kitchen apartment building, police sources said yesterday.
Jacoby Fenner, 66, clashed with the 56-year-old woman in the hallway of the building on West 43rd Street near Eighth Avenue at about 5 p.m. Friday, the sources said.
Fenner, who is black, allegedly shouted at the woman, “You white bitch. Nobody is afraid of you.”
Then he phoned the building’s security desk and allegedly stated, “The Caucasian is taking pictures again,” before yanking a camera the woman was holding out of her hand, cops said.
The camera strap around the woman’s wrist snapped, tearing off her fingernail, sources said.
Responding cops arrested Fenner on charges of robbery and assault.
He was not charged with a hate crime.
Police are hunting for a would-be thief who tried to rob a Midtown bank.
The 5-foot-6 suspect approached an employee sitting behind a desk in the lobby of the Washington Mutual branch on Seventh Avenue near West 37th Street at 11:20 a.m. Saturday.
He held up a note that read, “Give me the money. Just hurry up.”
The employee pushed a silent alarm, and the crook, sensing trouble, ran away empty-handed.
Only four days earlier, another suspect, Thomas Slator, 47, was arrested for allegedly robbing the same bank.
In that case, Slator allegedly made off with $1,000 after passing a demand note to a teller.
The two robberies are unrelated, authorities said.
Three people were shot and wounded yesterday in Murray Hill, police said.
Two men, ages 17 and 38, and a woman, 21, were attacked by a gunman for unknown reasons at 4:05 a.m. on East 34th Street at Second Avenue, near the St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral.
The victims were rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where they were listed in stable condition.
Police said they were being uncooperative.
The shooter fled.
Brooklyn
The next stop was jail for a city subway operator.
Gregory Jones, 46, a five-year MTA veteran, was accused in a brutal attack that allegedly occurred at around 4 a.m. on Nov. 15, when he was slowly walking in front of Meyer Novitsky’s car on Stillwell Avenue at Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island, leaving the motorist simmering behind the wheel.
Fed up, Novitsky rolled down his window and made a snarky remark, prompting Jones to bash him in the face with a ratchet handle, authorities said.
Novitsky underwent surgery at Lutheran Hospital, where doctors inserted a pin in his broken cheekbone.
Jones was busted Tuesday after Novitsky, 43, spotted him wearing an MTA hat as he emerged from the Stillwell Avenue station, sources said.
Jones was charged with assault, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.
Queens
Two veteran firefighters captured a man who was trying to flee a car wreck in Jamaica, officials said yesterday.
The trouble began at 10:21 p.m. Saturday, when anti-crime cops were chasing two men driving an allegedly stolen vehicle on 183rd Street at Liberty Avenue.
The suspects slammed into another vehicle, triggering a five-car pile-up, police said.
Firefighters Billy Fitch, 35, and Robert Clappi, 38, were responding to the accident scene when they grabbed one of the suspects as he tried to run away, holding him until police arrived, sources said.
The charges against him were not immediately available.
His alleged accomplice managed to get away.
A hit-and-run driver struck and critically injured a man in Glendale early yesterday, police said.
A white SUV rammed into the 39-year-old victim as it headed east on Myrtle Avenue at 67th Street at around 4:30 a.m.
The victim was rushed to Jamaica Hospital.
The SUV sped off.
Bronx
A middle-aged man was found dead on a Fordham street, police said yesterday.
The 51-year-old man, whose name was withheld pending family notification, may have suffered a seizure on Valentine Avenue near East 183rd Street at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Cops responded to that location, finding the man lying face up on the sidewalk.
Sources said he had a history of health problems, and authorities were awaiting the results of an autopsy. Jamie Schram