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Manhattan — It was her worst nightmare. A woman told cops her ex-boyfriend abducted her from an Upper West Side street, brought her to his Staten Island home, and terrorized her for more than 12 hours, police said yesterday.

Anthony Bowden, 21, allegedly brandished an ice pick and grabbed the woman on Broadway at 79th Street at around 1:20 p.m. Dec. 29. Threatening to kill her, he forced her to go with him to his home on Bradley Avenue in Emerson Hill, where he pummeled her face, pulled her hair and threw her to the ground, cops said.

He then allegedly ordered her to remove her clothes at knifepoint and sliced up the garments.

After more than half a day, the woman managed to escape. Bowden was arrested shortly afterward and charged with kidnapping and assault.

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Shelter, yes; safe haven, not so much. Levonn Allen, 23, got into a violent argument with a 47-year-old man in a shelter on East 30th Street near First Avenue in Kips Bay at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 9, authorities said.

Allen struck the victim in the head, shattering his jaw and possibly breaking his eye socket, cops said. He then allegedly swiped $300 from the victim and fled.

Authorities nabbed Allen on Dec. 29 and charged him with robbery.

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One reveler started the new year with a sick off-stage performance at the Times Square Arts Center, police said.

Mohammed Alnafjan, 23, of Brooklyn, was charged with molesting an apparently passed-out woman at the center, which features comedy shows, at around 3:15 a.m. on New Year’s Day.

Alnafjan allegedly kissed the woman and fondled her — although she was slumped over a table at the theater.

Witnesses who saw the incident called 911, and Alnafjan was arrested for sexual abuse.

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An electronics thief was busted in a string of Manhattan commercial and residential burglaries, police sources said yesterday.

Ivan Deleon, 35, began his mini-crime spree at a commercial building on Ninth Avenue near West 35th Street on Dec. 14, swiping an iPod, police said.

Five days later, he got into an apartment on West 21st Street near Eighth Avenue through an open door, and took another iPod, cops said.

Last Wednesday, he allegedly stole a laptop from a commercial building on West 18th Street near Sixth Avenue.

Deleon was arrested on burglary charges the next day.

Staten Island

Her copy workload must have been huge. Iesha Dunn, 18, was busted for shoplifting more than $5,000 worth of ink cartridges in the Target store on Veterans Road West near Arthur Kill Road in Charleston at around 8:30 p.m. last Thursday, cops said.

Store security agents saw Dunn load the cartridges and other merchandise into a car seat she had taken from elsewhere in the store, police said.

She then paid for the car seat, but allegedly tried to leave the store without paying for the other items. Security nabbed her before she could get away.

Dunn was charged with grand larceny, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

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Three men stabbed a young man during a botched robbery outside the Staten Island Ferry terminal, police said yesterday.

James Turner, 21, and two cohorts ordered the 20-year-old victim to hand over his money outside the St. George terminal at 2 a.m. Saturday.

The victim took too long to respond, prompting the thugs to set upon him, authorities said.

Turner then allegedly stabbed the victim in the torso and rummaged through his pockets, but came up empty-handed.

Police were called and Turner was busted on charges of attempted robbery and assault. His alleged cohorts are still at large.

The victim was released after treatment at a hospital.

Queens

Undercover cops yesterday arrested a senior citizen for going to meet someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl for sex in Elmhurst, officials said.

Andrew Cullen, 69, believed that he’d been having sexually explicit online conversations with the “underage girl,” but was actually chatting with detectives from the Vice Enforcement Division, cops said.

Cullen, from Oceanside, LI, was arrested at 3 p.m. when he arrived at the meeting spot at Queens Boulevard at Broadway. He was charged with attempted rape, attempted sodomy, endangering the welfare of a child and disseminating indecent material to a minor.

A gun-toting bandit roughed up a man during a mugging in Astoria. The unidentified thug shoved the 55-year-old victim into a driveway at gunpoint on 23rd Avenue near 28th Street at 5:20 a.m. on Dec. 8, then fled with his wallet. The victim was not seriously hurt.

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