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Four suspects mugged a woman on the Upper West Side, cops said. The 27-year-old victim was at West End Avenue and West 74th Street at 11:10 p.m. Saturday when the attackers knocked her down and grabbed her purse containing debit and credit cards and an iPhone. The victim sustained pain and bruising to the face, ­elbow and foot. Her credit cards were later used at two Duane Reade stores, one on Broadway near West 102nd Street and the other on Broadway near West 94th Street.

Police arrested the man who fatally stabbed a Metro­Card-swipe seller who allegedly ripped off the assailant’s daughter in Harlem, police said. Herbert Burgess, 53, was illegally selling swipes at the turnstiles of the 116th Street station on the 2 line on March 16 when a woman made a deal with him to gain entry just before 9 p.m. But instead of swiping her through, Burgess snatched a dollar from her hand and told her to get lost, police said. The woman left the station but soon returned with her dad, 48-year-old Julio Velazquez, who chased Burgess out of the station and knifed him in the back at 116th Street and Lenox Avenue, investigators aid. Burgess then stumbled back into the station and hopped onto a downtown train but collapsed at the 110th Street station. Straphangers at that station called 911 and EMTs rushed Burgess to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds, according to FDNY para­medics. Velazquez was taken into custody on April 7 in Philadelphia at the home of a family member, cops said. On Tuesday, he was extradited back to New York and charged with second-degree murder and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.

The Bronx

Cops are looking for the two suspects who allegedly pummeled and robbed an elderly ­cabdriver in Clason Point, police said. The attackers were in the cab at about 1:50 a.m. Friday when one suddenly punched the 73-year-old driver repeatedly in the head, put him in a chokehold and demanded money, cops said. The thug also allegedly claimed to have a firearm, but did not display one. The second suspect removed an undetermined sum of cash from the cab’s center console, and the pair fled at O’Brien Avenue and White Plains Road, cops said. The victim was taken to Jacobi Medical Center for treatment of bruises.

A 24-year-old man was critically wounded when he opened his apartment door in Edenwald Wednesday and was shot in the gut by two apparent home invaders, police sources said. The suspects were trying to break into the victim’s home on East 224th Street near Needham Avenue at about 11:40 a.m. when the victim opened his door, cops said. The thugs shot him and fled empty-handed, police sources said. The victim was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center in critical condition. One of the suspects was wearing all black, while his accomplice was dressed in a gray hoodie, said police ­investigators.

Staten Island

The suspect who allegedly took cellphone video of a woman trying on clothes in a department-store chang­ing room at the Staten Island Mall surrendered to cops after seeing his picture accompanying news reports, according to police. The 35-year-old victim was in the JCPenney changing room on April 1 at about 7 p.m. when she noticed a cellphone camera pointing up at her from under the door, cops said. She shouted and scared off the suspect, 66-year-old Samuel Cruz. Cruz was arrested Tuesday and charged with unlawful surveillance, investigators said.

Brooklyn

An anti-Semitic vandal scrawled swastikas around Marine Park, police sources said. The alleged vandal used a white marker to draw the Nazi symbol on a garbage-can cover and a residential gate at Avenue S and Ryder Street in Marine Park at about 4:20 a.m. Monday. The suspect also scrawled swastikas on a traffic-control box at Avenue S and East 38th Street, a garbage-can cover at Avenue S and East 37th Street and the front door of a residential building at East 35th Street and Avenue S, cops said. Police describe the vandal as a Caucasian male between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-9. He was last seen wearing dark-colored clothing and carrying a dark-colored backpack.

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