MANHATTAN
* A just-released parolee who tried to rob a Midtown Starbucks yesterday could wind up serving a Grande sentence.
The suspect, Chris Rhodes, 38, walked into the upscale java joint at 39th Street and Ninth avenue near the Port Authority Bus Terminal at around 7:30 a.m. and gestured to a worker that he had a gun in his pocket, cops said.
The employee ran and the suspect fled empty-handed.
Ten minutes later, the suspect walked into a deli on 40th Street, jumped the counter, rifled the register and fled with an undisclosed sum of money.
Rhodes was soon arrested on charges of armed robbery, criminal mischief and resisting arrest.
* A man was shot dead on a basketball court at the East River Houses in Harlem early yesterday, police said.
A 911 call reported gunfire at the housing development on East 102nd Street near First Avenue shortly before 2 a.m., and when cops arrived they found Stanley Hudson, 46, mortally wounded with four shots to the chest.
He was taken to Metropolitan Hospital, where he died.
Hudson, who had 21 arrests on his record, lived at the nearby Woodrow Wilson Houses on East 105th Street.
QUEENS
* A teen tried to ditch a stolen cellphone as cops moved in to grab him in Astoria, police said.
Imani James, 18, allegedly swiped the phone from the knapsack of a passer-by at 21st Avenue and 31st Street at 3 p.m. last Sunday.
The suspect ran and the victim alerted cops.
Armed with a description, police moved in to grab James and he allegedly tossed the stolen phone into a bush.
Cops arrested James and recovered the phone.
He was charged with petit larceny and possession of stolen property, said a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown.
* A belligerent Hollis woman was arrested for tossing food and feces onto her neighbor’s patio, police said yesterday.
The neighbor spotted Dawn Ritzie, 50, tossing the garbage out of her second-floor apartment window at 198th Street and 90th Avenue last Monday, police said.
The neighbor called police and Ritzie was charged with criminal mischief.
* A man wielding a meat cleaver chased a young man after they argued over a parking space in Flushing, authorities said.
Lian Yong, 41, approached the 18-year-old victim parking his car at Haight Street and 41st Avenue last Sunday and instructed him to leave, police said.
When the teen declined to vacate the space, Yong left, returned with the cleaver and chased the young man, who outran him, cops said.
Yong was busted on charges of menacing, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment.
* The long arm of the law caught up with a freeloading restaurant patron after he walked out of a Jackson Heights eatery without paying his tab.
Abraham Rodriguez, 25, had run up a $107 tab for dinner and drinks at the Taqueria Coatzibgo restaurant on Roosevelt Avenue near 76th Street last Sunday when he abruptly got up and walked out the door shortly after 10:30 p.m., sources said.
The manager called cops, who grabbed Rodriguez nearby.
Cops searched him and found cocaine and marijuana in his pockets, sources said.
He was arrested and charged with theft of service and drug possession.
BROOKLYN
* A man was shot and wounded on a Coney Island street yesterday, cops said.
The unidentified man was hit once in the shoulder as he argued with someone at West 28th Street and Mermaid Avenue shortly after noon, cops said.
The victim was hospitalized in stable condition.