Staten Island
A construction worker fell and impaled his leg on metal rebar yesterday at the future home of the 121st Precinct station house in Graniteville, authorities said.
The hardhat fell at 1:15 p.m. at the job site on Richmond Avenue near Forest Avenue.
The worker, in his 40s, was admitted to Richmond University Medical Center in critical condition.
Manhattan
The body of a man between 30 and 40 years old was found floating in the Hudson between 86th and 87th Streets at 7:10 p.m. yesterday.
The medical examiner is investigating the cause of death.
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A confrontation in Inwood early yesterday ended with a man shot dead, police said.
Miguel Rodriguez, 21, was arguing with a group of foes on Dyckman Street near Vermilyea Avenue at 12:42 a.m. when shots rang out, sources said.
Rodriguez, shot in the head, was pronounced dead at the scene. The gunman fled and no arrests have been made, cops said.
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An ex-con drug dealer on parole fled from cops in a stolen minivan after allegedly being spotted peddling narcotics near Tompkins Square Park, authorities said.
At 7 a.m. on July 27, officers approached a 2008 Chevrolet Uplander on St. Mark’s Place near Avenue A and asked the man behind the wheel, Robert Ball, to step out, court papers state.
But Ball, 37, hit the gas and almost clipped a sergeant, cops said.
With police in pursuit, he sped for almost 10 blocks, blowing red lights, before getting caught in traffic, cops said.
He was cuffed, and a license-plate check revealed the minivan had been stolen that day, court papers add.
Bronx
A terrified 4-year-old child begged her brutish father to stop beating her mother in their West Farms apartment, authorities said.
“Stop hitting Mommy!” the child screamed at Jeffery DeJesus, 33, as he placed the woman in a headlock at 11:45 p.m. on July 24 in their home on Crotona Parkway near Elsmere Place, court papers state.
The couple’s 3-year-old daughter also witnessed the attack, cops said.
“If you try to call the cops again or if anyone comes upstairs, I’m going to kill you,” he allegedly snarled. The victim was hospitalized and DeJesus was arrested on July 27.
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A mentally disturbed mother critically injured her 3-month- old girl by throwing her to the ground in front of a hospital in Pelham Gardens, police said.
Miriam Garcia, 33, held the tot under her arm as she waved a cane and yelled incoherently Tuesday at 6:45 p.m. at a driveway at Jacobi Medical Center, cops said.
When cops approached, Garcia allegedly threw the child to the ground. The infant was rushed to the pediatric emergency room with a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain, and was listed in critical condition.
Garcia was charged with attempted murder and taken for a psychiatric evaluation, cops said.
Queens
Police are seeking the public’s assistance for help in identifying the shooter who killed a man in Jamaica on May 26.
Kyle Padmore, 30, was shot once in the back of the head in front of his home. He died at Jamaica Hospital.
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A bicyclist was killed by a car in the Rockaways, police said.
The 60-year-old victim was riding in the northbound bike lane on Cross Bay Boulevard near Beach Channel Drive at 9:20 p.m. Tuesday when he was hit by a 2011 Acura driven by Jonathan Rincon, 21, police said.
The victim died at Peninsula Hospital and Rincon was arrested for driving allegedly with a suspended license.
Brooklyn
Cops last night arrested the gutless creep who snatched a purse from a 78-year-old woman in a wheelchair, authorities said.
Cody Santiago, 18, allegedly walked up to the senior citizen being wheeled by a female aide down Wyckoff Avenue in Bushwick on July 20 at 1:10 p.m.
The perpetrator walked casually in front of the two women before turning to grab the purse out of the elderly woman’s lap and sprinting down the street.
He was busted at his mother’s home without incident.
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A school safety agent was caught selling drugs out of her East New York home, police said yesterday.
Tameeka Daniel, 36, was arrested after she allegedly sold ecstasy to an undercover officer Tuesday in a buy-and-bust sting at her Vermont Avenue residence, cops said.
Daniel has been suspended without pay.