Manhattan

A gunman has been busted for shooting a man in both legs at a Washington Heights restaurant, police said yesterday.

Pedro Tejada, 52, confronted his 20-year-old victim standing in the doorway of Caridad Restaurant on Amsterdam Avenue near West 168th Street at around 9 a.m. on Jan. 23, cops said. Tejada allegedly snarled, “You remember me?” then shot the victim and ran.

Tejada was tracked down Thursday and charged with assault.

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Five hoodlums swiped $150 from a food-cart vendor at knifepoint in Central Park, cops said yesterday.

The thugs confronted the 25-year-old vendor on North Drive at East Drive near the Harlem Meer at 1:45 p.m. Wednesday.

One of the muggers pulled a knife, reached into a drawer in the cart, removed the money and fled with his accomplices.

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Police yesterday identified the man fatally stabbed outside a Wakefield apartment building Saturday.

Bruce Asante, 29, was stabbed in the head and stomach by an assailant on East 223rd Street near Needham Avenue at 5 p.m., cops said. Asante took a cab to Montefiore Hospital, where he died.

A relatives yesterday told The Post that the victim worked construction and “[was] a great guy . . . a responsible father, a family man. We are very sad.”

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A crazed man was busted after twice breaking into his estranged wife’s Mount Hope apartment and terrorizing her, authorities said yesterday.

In the first incident, March 9, Marcos Ortiz, 24, barged through the door of the apartment on Monroe Avenue Place and whined, “I want to be with you,” police said. He then pummeled his wife in the face, destroyed a wall unit and smashed a TV with his fist before fleeing, cops said.

Two days later, Ortiz climbed a fire escape and kicked in a window gate to enter the apartment, but changed his mind and fled to a neighbor’s flat, authorities said. Police were called and arrested Ortiz.

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One of three thieves has been nabbed for beating and robbing a man near Van Cortlandt Park, authorities said yesterday.

Nicholas Paulercio, 19, phoned the victim, whom he knows, and invited him to a Burger King on Broadway near West 246th Street at about 2:10 a.m. on Feb. 16, cops said.

When the victim arrived, Paulercio and two accomplices allegedly jumped him and beat him. They then took his cellphone, iPod and $200 in cash before fleeing, cops said.

Paulercio was grabbed Thursday and charged with robbery and assault.

His alleged cohorts are still at large.

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A thug stuffed a sock into his ex-girlfriend’s mouth and repeatedly stabbed her with a butcher knife while keeping her trapped for 12 hours in an Edenwald apartment, authorities said yesterday.

Jason Hall, 36, allegedly attacked the woman in the apartment on Baychester Avenue near Edson Avenue between 5:30 p.m. March 10 and 5:23 a.m. March 11.

Someone notified police, and Hall was arrested.

Brooklyn

Burglars drilled two holes into a roof and slipped inside a Gravesend bank yesterday, but fled empty-handed, police said.

After breaking in, the crooks crawled through a heating vent in the Sovereign Bank on McDonald Avenue and Avenue U at about 5 p.m.

But they were unable to gain access to the vault and decided to leave.

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Police responding to a call of a “suspicious bag” in East New York discovered a man shot to death in a shopping cart.

Cops were called at about 3 p.m. Saturday to the corner of Schenck and Pitkin avenues, where they found the unidentified man with a gunshot to the head.

His body had been wrapped in a black plastic bag.