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*** A Crown Heights man was arrested for slashing his landlord’s son during an argument over computer games, authorities said yesterday.

John Harden, 47, was busted Thursday and charged with assault, menacing, weapons possession and marijuana possession, sources said.

The attack occurred after Harden walked into the 20-year-old victim’s Rogers Avenue apartment near Union Street about 5:50 p.m. that day to collect his computer games, sources said.

The pair got into an argument in which Harden allegedly pulled a boxcutter, sliced the victim’s middle finger, and fled.

The victim called cops and told them where to find Harden, who lives in the same building. While Harden was being arrested, cops found him with a plastic baggie that had pot in it.

*** Detectives were investigating the vicious stabbing of a man found on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street yesterday.

Police received a report of an assault and arrived at Bainbridge Street near Malcolm X Boulevard at about 4:56 a.m.

There, cops found the 40-year-old victim with several puncture wounds to his head, chest and neck.

The victim, whose name was not immediately released, told police that an unknown black man had stabbed him, possibly with an ice pick, for reasons that remain unclear.

The wounded man was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.

*** A man was shot and critically wounded by a gun-toting thug who tried to rob him on a Crown Heights street, police said.

The 23-year-old man was accosted by at least one gunman on East New York Avenue near East 47th Street at about 9:10 p.m.

The suspect shot the man in the back during a stickup and then fled. It was unclear whether the attacker got any property.

The victim was admitted to Kings County Hospital.

MANHATTAN

*** The body of a man was found yesterday in a room at the Four Seasons Hotel, police said.

The man, whose name was not immediately released, was found in bed at the posh hotel on East 57th Street near Madison Avenue at about 8:40 a.m. Police do not suspect any criminality.

THE BRONX

*** An elderly man was found dead yesterday in a Bruckner apartment, police said.

The body of the 85-year-old man was discovered in the apartment on Bruckner Boulevard near Beach Avenue at about 9 a.m., cops said.

His name was not immediately released. The Medical Examiner’s Office will perform an autopsy to determine cause of death.

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