MANHATTAN
* A Wollman Skating Rink employee was robbed yesterday as he left Central Park to make a bank drop, police said.
The 33-year-old man was carrying a bag containing $17,000 and walking south on Center Drive at 60th Street around noon, when an unidentified man in his 20s approached him and asked for directions.
The worker tried to walk by the man, who blocked his path. The man simulated a gun under his white T-shirt, threatened the rink employee, took the bag and fled with the loot. The victim was not hurt.
The rink is currently hosting a kids’ carnival with rides.
* Three New York State Park Police officers saved the life of an emotionally disturbed man who jumped into the Hudson River yesterday, authorities said.
The man, in his 20s, pulled a knife at Riverbank State Park on West 145th Street and Riverside Drive at around 1 p.m. and put the blade against his stomach.
He climbed up on a railing and leaped into the Hudson River. Witnesses called 911 and a patrol boat responded to the scene.
Officers Jamie Hardison, William Treat and Eric Rosario pulled the man from the waters. He fought with the cops, who had to restrain him.
No one was injured. The unidentified man was taken to Harlem Hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
* An e-mail containing racial insults was sent to an Upper East Side man, police said yesterday.
The man, who is black, received the e-mail at his apartment at around 11:30 p.m. on June 21 and reported it yesterday.
Police are investigating the incident as a possible bias crime. (m)
STATEN ISLAND
* A 30-year-old man was arrested for menacing another man with what appeared to be a gun on a Grasmere street, authorities said yesterday.
Edwin Reyes allegedly pointed the gun at his victim and threatened to kill him on Olympia Boulevard and Balfour Street at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Reyes was busted 30 minutes later and charged with menacing.
* Two pipe bombs exploded outside homes in Mariners Harbor, police said yesterday.
One or more assailants put the bombs in front and in back of two homes on Van Pelt Avenue at 4:30 a.m. Sunday and lit the fuses.
The explosions shattered a window in a house across the street and damaged a cement wall between two gardens. No one was injured in the blasts.
* A 28-year-old man was arrested for stealing a car on a Dongan Hills street, authorities said yesterday.
The victim spotted Robert Decesario behind the wheel of his 2002 Mitsubishi Galant on Hylan Boulevard near Naughton Avenue at 9:30 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
He called police, who pulled the suspect over near Clove Road and Targee Street. They said he had a plastic bottle of liquid methadone.
Decesario was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
QUEENS (m)
* Anti-Semitic slurs were spray-painted on the wall of a Rego Park apartment building, police said yesterday.
The vandalism was discovered at 66th Road and 99th Street around 10 a.m. Sunday.
BROOKLYN (s, lcf)
* Police yesterday released a photo of Frank Cintron, an alleged thief who carjacked two people at gunpoint in Sunset Park. On July 8, Cintron, 36, and an accomplice approached a 26-year-old man and 19-year-old woman who were in a 1999 Pontiac Bonneville on Third Avenue and 54th St. at 12:45 a.m., police said.
One of the thugs allegedly pulled a gun and demanded their car. The victims fled the vehicle. Then the suspects allegedly jumped inside and took off.
Later that day, police discovered the Bonneville in Bay Ridge. Cintron (left), whose last known address was 106-05 Flat lands Ave., is described by cops as armed and dangerous.
Anyone with information should call the 72nd Precinct Detective’s Squad at (718) 965-6336.
THE BRONX (s, lcf)
* A 20-year-old has been charged with attempted murder yesterday in the shooting of a man and a teenager at a Bronx housing project over the weekend, police said.
Jamell Wood, of East 140th Street, was arrested yesterday after he was positively identified by one of the victims in Saturday’s shooting at the Mill Brook housing project in Mott Haven. Police are still searching for the gunman. The unidentified assailant pulled a pistol and opened fire as Rashaad Conyers, 13, and Ronald Smith, 25, were watching a basketball game at around 6:30 p.m.
Conyers was hit in the back, the shoulder, and the chest and a bullet grazed his head. He was taken to Lincoln Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition. Smith was struck in the torso and rushed to the same hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.