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* A man was arrested for driving while intoxicated on the Upper East Side, police said yesterday. On Monday, Jeffrey Fleming, 45, of Macdonough Street, Brooklyn, was driving south on Second Avenue around 11 p.m. when his car slammed into a parked vehicle for reasons that were not immediately clear, cops said. His car mounted the curb knocking over a parking meter and a support pole for scaffolding and causing the wall of a pharmacy to collapse. Fleming and a 49-year-old man sitting in the car’s passenger seat were treated at New York Hospital for minor injuries. A 35-year-old man seated in back was also treated for minor injuries at Lenox Hill Hospital.

* High school horseplay turned violent in a Washington Irving HS classroom yesterday. Law-enforcement sources said a 15-year-old girl became enraged after a 14-year-old boy put chalk on her jacket – retaliation for her doing the same to his coat. That’s when the girl allegedly used a pencil sharpener as a weapon – slashing the boy’s left forearm with the razor inside, the sources said. The victim was taken to Cabrini Hospital where it took 14 stitches to close his wound. (lcf replate)

* A woman was burned in a Murray Hill apartment yesterday after her robe caught fire near a stove, EMS officials said. The incident occurred at 9:15 a.m. in a building on Park Avenue near 34th Street. The woman, whose name was not released, was taken to New York Weill Cornell Center. It was not immediately known the extent of her injuries.

* A thief fled empty-handed from an Upper West Side bank yesterday after he passed a teller a note demanding money, police said. It was unclear why the thief did not receive money. The attempted robbery took place at the HSBC branch on 96th Street near Amsterdam Avenue at 10:12 a.m.

BROOKLYN

* A teenager was killed yesterday when he was shot twice in Crown Heights, police said. The violence erupted about 1 p.m. on the corner of Montgomery Street and Washington Avenue. An unidentified assailant approached an 18-year-old man, pulled a gun and shot him in the chest. The assailant fled. The victim died at Kings County Hospital.

* A 23-year-old Virginia man leaped to his death in a Bay Ridge subway station yesterday evening, police said. Witnesses said the man, whose name was not released, jumped in front of a northbound R train at the 77th Street station at 6:15 p.m. (s, lcf)

* A thief fled with cash from a Williamsburg bank yesterday after he handed a note demanding money to a teller and she complied, police said. The robbery occurred at 10:35 a.m. at the Banco Popular branch on the corner of Graham Avenue and Debevoise Street. The thief was described as a slim man, in his 20s, and was last seen wearing black clothing.

* A fire erupted in a Flatbush apartment building yesterday but no one was seriously injured, investigators said. The blaze broke out at 10:41 a.m. on the second floor of the four-story building on Clarendon Road near Bedford Avenue. It was brought under control at 10:55 a.m. Investigators were trying to determine the cause of the blaze. (m)

QUEENS

* Five people were injured yesterday when their van collided with a school bus in Elmhurst, police said. The accident occurred about 3:30 p.m. when the bus carrying no passengers and heading west on 30th Avenue crashed into a Dodge Caravan traveling north on 87th Street. Two adults and two children in the Dodge were taken to Elmhurst General Hospital in stable condition. A 15-year-old girl was brought to the same hospital in serious condition.

* A 15-year-old student has died from injuries he suffered when a fellow student hit him with a baseball bat outside a Ridgewood school, police said yesterday. Brian Rivera of Queens died early Monday morning at Elmhurst Hospital. Rivera was involved in an argument with another student, aged 14, outside IS 77 at the corner of Cypress Avenue and George Street at about 3 p.m. on January 14. (lcf replate)

* The classmate, whose name was not released because he’s a juvenile, smashed Rivera’s head with an aluminum bat, police said. He was arrested immediately after the attack but charges against him are still pending.

* A robber walked into a St. Albans bank yesterday, slipped a note demanding money to a teller and escaped with an undetermined amount of cash, police said. The robbery occurred at the Fleet branch on Linden Boulevard near 205th Street around 10 a.m. The thief was described as a man, in his 30s, 6-foot-0 and of medium build.

* A 23-year-old man was arrested yesterday on a robbery warrant. Police executed a 7:50 a.m. arrest warrant at the apartment of Thomas Singleton at 4109 Vernon Boulevard in connection with a robbery, the details of which were not revealed. Singleton injured his leg after he fled the apartment, but was collared by police in the rear of the building, cops said. He was taken to Elmhurst General Hospital in stable condition.

* A swastika was spray-painted on a wall of PS 159 in Bayside yesterday. The vandalism was discovered around 5 a.m. in the rear of the school at 205-01 33rd Ave. (m)

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