Manhattan–The bundled-up bank thief pictured above got away with nearly $2,000 after claiming he had a gun in an Upper West Side branch.

The bandit passed a demand note to a teller in the Citibank branch at Broadway and 86th Street at 2 p.m. Wednesday, police said.

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A thief who burglarized a Chelsea office last month was busted Monday after he was picked up for a second robbery, cops said yesterday.

Kevin Edmonds, 41, was busted after cops recognized him from surveillance video taken from the Dec. 23 crime at the office on 30th Street near Eighth Avenue.

On the video, Edmonds was seen leaving the building with a laptop computer and a briefcase, cops said.

He was linked to that crime after getting caught in a burglary nearby, sources said.

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Cops busted two thieves who preyed on a straphanger in a Greenwich Village subway station.

Lamar Long, 18, approached a rider on the northbound platform of the N train at Canal Street at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, police said.

“Give me the money,” Long allegedly snarled at the victim, who turned over his wallet containing $400.

Long’s accomplice, William Rivera, 21, then snatched the victim’s music player and the pair boarded a train, cops said.

The victim called police from an emergency call box, and cops were waiting for the menacing pair at the 8th Street station.

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A patient who escaped from a New Jersey mental institution was nabbed for robbing a Chelsea bank, cops said yesterday.

John Pheffer, 63, who recently escaped from Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, walked into the Citibank branch at Seventh Avenue and 17th Street at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday, sources said.

He handed a teller a demand note and claimed he had a gun, sources said.

Pheffer fled with $4,100, but was quickly nabbed by anti-crime cops, police said.

Brooklyn

A thug who robbed a faith-based counselor at gunpoint in Crown Heights was captured after the victim identified him from a police photo array, authorities said yesterday.

Courtney Griswold, 21, and the 33-year-old victim were seated in the victim’s car on Bergen Street near Vanderbilt Avenue at 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 9, cops said.

Suddenly, Griswold pulled an apparent firearm and swiped the victim’s rings, BlackBerry and $10, sources said.

Griswold was busted Wednesday and charged with robbery.

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Hats off to the arresting officers.

An argument over headwear landed a woman behind bars for stabbing a man in Bedford-Stuyvesant, authorities said yesterday.

Ruby Smith, 22, clashed with the 48-year-old victim at Stuyvesant Avenue and Broadway at 3:05 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.

Sources said the victim had lent a hat to Smith, who never returned it.

So the victim snatched the hat right off Smith’s head.

Enraged, Smith pulled a knife, stabbed the victim in the back and fled, but was quickly arrested.

The victim was not seriously injured.

Staten Island

Talk about a back stabber!

A man knifed his mother from behind in their Oakwood home, cops said.

For unknown reasons, Erdzan Alla, 27, repeatedly plunged a sharp object into his mother’s back in the kitchen of their home on Milton Avenue near Ebbits Street at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.

Police arrested Alla on assault charges, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

The victim was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

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It’s back to the Big House for a parolee who got caught using a phony name.

Rasheen Hackney, 21, showed up at Richmond University Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the leg at 9 a.m. Monday, cops said.

He claimed to be his brother, but cops investigating the injuries recognized Hackney and confronted him over the phony name.

Cops learned Hackney had been shot in Mariners Harbor early Monday and was on parole for shooting a man outside a nightclub in 2006.

He was arrested and charged with criminal impersonation, said a DA’s spokesman.