Manhattan
Cops were grilling a man suspected of killing his wife in East Harlem after he stumbled drunk into a swank Fifth Avenue apartment building yesterday and refused to leave, cops said.
Building staff called police after the intoxicated man wandered into a luxury residential high rise near East 84th Street, across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shortly after 6 a.m., sources said.
He took a seat in the lobby and refused to leave, the sources said. Cops arrived and he was taken to New York Hospital, where he said he had hurt his wife, the sources said.
Cops rushed to the couple’s fourth-floor apartment on East 104th Street near Madison Avenue and found a 31-year-old woman on the bedroom floor stabbed repeatedly, authorities said.
She was dead at the scene. The man, who has been investigated for two prior domestic incidents, was still being questioned last night.
Police yesterday were searching for two Upper West Side bank robbers.
The apparently unarmed bandits, described as black men in their mid-20s, slipped a demand note to a teller at the TD branch at Broadway and West 68th Street at 10:40 a.m. Friday.
They fled with an undisclosed sum of cash.
A building handyman nabbed a stealthy burglar brazenly trying to steal a jewelry box from an occupied Murray Hill apartment, authorities said yesterday.
Michael Green, 52, got into a 10th-floor apartment of the doorman building at East 28th Street and Lexington Avenue at 12:40 p.m. Friday, sources said.
The tenants, a man and woman, were in the apartment and caught Green reaching for the jewelry box atop a bedroom dresser, cops said.
Green tried to flee but was captured by the handyman, said a DA spokeswoman.
Police easily spotted a teen mugger running half-naked from an Upper West Side crime scene after his victim ripped the shirt off his back, authorities said yesterday.
Argenis Perez, 16, and two cohorts surrounded a young man outside a Game Stop on Broadway near West 85th Street after the victim made a purchase around 5:40 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
The trio allegedly grabbed the victim’s wallet as Perez struck his face.
The victim fought back and tore off Perez’s shirt, said cops, who quickly nabbed the fleeing suspect.
Brooklyn
Cops are hunting for a suspect in a Sunset Park stabbing attack.
The 18-year-old victim was stabbed once in the chest on Fifth Avenue near 51st Street shortly before 5 p.m. Monday.
He was taken to Lutheran Hospital and was in stable condition. Police said the attack appeared to be gang-related.
Law-enforcement authorities caught up with a suspect in the stabbing of an East New York restaurant patron, cops said.
Hector Mota, 40, who was arrested Sunday, allegedly attacked a patron in the El Gran Mar De Plata on Fulton Street near Logan Street shortly after 1 a.m. on Dec. 26.
The victim suffered chest and arm wounds, said a spokesman for DA Charles Hynes.
A man was arrested for hitting his girlfriend in the face in East New York, police said.
Gregory Weaver, 34, allegedly punched the woman as they argued in her home on Georgia Avenue near Blake Avenue shortly after 7 a.m. on Dec. 28.
Weaver was arrested Sunday, said a DA spokesman.