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THE BRONX

*** Police seeking to identify of a man whose corpse was torched near Yankee Stadium yesterday released a sketch of a tattoo found on his left arm.

The distinctive bicep tattoo (pictured above) shows a Grim Reaper with a gun and skulls.

The victim had been brutally beaten and dumped from a car in a parking lot at the stadium near the Major Deegan Expressway.

The body was then doused with an accelerant and set ablaze, sources said.

Children riding dirt bikes discovered the body under the Macombs Dam Bridge about 2:15 a.m. Friday.

*** A man was stabbed to death yesterday in a Tremont building, cops said.

The 39-year-old victim, whose name was not immediately released, was stabbed in the building at Ford Street near East 183rd Street about 1 p.m.

He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died.

BROOKLYN

*** A man was fatally stabbed yesterday in Bedford-Stuyvesant during an attack that left another man injured, cops said.

Melvin Reales, 23, was stabbed several times about 4:40 a.m. on Clifton Place near Bedford Avenue in what may have been an attempted robbery, sources said.

In addition, a 22-year-old man was beaten about the body, including the face.

The stabbing victim died later at Kings County Hospital, and the other victim was released after treatment for cuts and bruises.

*** A worker has been arrested for threatening to kill a supervisor and beating him with a metal pipe in an East New York company, authorities said yesterday.

Sources said worker Jeffrey Browne, 26, got angry at his 41-year-old supervisor about 8:20 a.m. Thursday after the man told Browne to get to work while Browne was looking for a fan.

Browne allegedly grabbed a jig, a fixture in manufacturing, and swung it at the supervisor, but missed.

Browne then repeatedly shoved the man and threatened to kill him in Bridge Metal Industries on Newport Street, the sources said.

The supervisor reported the incident to his boss, who ordered him to fire Browne.

The supervisor did just that, prompting Browne to pick up a metal pipe and hit him in the left hand, sources said.

The victim refused medical attention.

Browne was arrested that day and charged with assault, menacing and weapons possession, sources said.

QUEENS

*** Three teens were arrested for robbing a youth at a Jamaica subway station, authorities said yesterday.

Brandon Hamilton, 18, Allah Tubar, 18, and Francuisco Colon, confronted an 18-year-old man at 11:10 a.m. Friday at the Van Wyck-Briarwood station, which covers the E and F lines, sources said.

The trio allegedly stole the teen’s iPod and headphones.

After the victim screamed for help, police caught the trio in the act and charged them with robbery, sources said.

The victim suffered a bruised right knee.

MANHATTAN

*** The body of an unidentified man was discovered in a lower Manhattan building, cops said.

The man, in his 30s, was found with no apparent signs of injuries to his body in the lobby of the building at 52 Broadway about 1:15 a.m.

The medical examiner will conduct an autopsy.

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