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A woman was slashed in a savage attack yesterday inside a Harlem building.

The 20-year-old victim was jumped at 1 p.m. by a knife-wielding maniac in the hallway of the building on First Avenue near East 101 Street, police said.

The victim suffered multiple slash wounds to the face and body, police added.

She was taken to Metropolitan Hospital and was expected to survive, according to sources.

A bloody knife was recovered at the scene.

It is unclear if the woman knew her assailant, who is on the lam, sources said.

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Cops were questioning a man last night in connection with a broad daylight sex attack on a college student.

The development comes after cops released surveillance footage from a neighborhood bodega where the thug was caught using a debit card belonging to his 21-year-old victim minutes after the attack.

The brute claimed to be packing a pistol and trailed the woman into her Hamilton Heights apartment at 1:30 p.m. Thursday and forced her to perform oral sex.

Queens

A man in a motorized scooter was mowed down by a minivan yesterday in South Richmond Hill, sources said.

Nasir Mohammed, 78, was in his electric vehicle crossing 114th Street at 103rd Avenue about 12:15 p.m. when he was struck by a Nissan Quest being driven by Jodh Singh, 57, according to sources.

Mohammed was taken to Jamaica Hospital and was in stable condition.

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The person pictured here is the thief who cops say robbed a man asleep on a train stopped in a Long Island City station.

The suspect snatched the 28-year-old victim’s backpack and wallet at about 5 a.m. Oct. 9 as he dozed on a Queens-bound E train at the 23rd Street/Ely Avenue subway stop, police said.

Brooklyn

A prankster falsely reported flames and an explosion yesterday inside a condo building in Fort Greene.

An anonymous caller dialed 911 at about 7 a.m. and said there was a fire on the second floor and a bomb on the third floor of a warehouse converted into a residential loft on Washington Avenue.

The bogus call drew a small army of emergency crews, but within half an hour officials had found no trace of fire or explosives, said authorities.

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A cabdriver and his passenger fought over a fare in Cypress Hills, sources said.

The money dispute went down when Amadou Bah, 51, dropped off Bonita Moore-Addae, 27, at the corner of Fulton Street and Pine Street at 9 a.m. Thursday, according to sources.

Moore-Addae allegedly tried to pay the $15 fare with a $100 bill, but Bah didn’t have change.

A nearby deli refused to change the $100, and Moore-Addae tried to walk off without paying, sources said.

Bah grabbed her coat, and she pushed him to the ground, sources added.

The cops were called, and both were arrested, sources said.

Staten Island

A 47-year-old sicko is accused of raping his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter in her Mariners Harbor home.

Calvert Garraway sexually attacked the victim twice between 1 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. on Feb. 13, 2009, in the residence on Harbor Road near South Avenue, according to court papers.

Garraway was babysitting the victim and at least one other sibling, whose mother he was dating at the time, sources said.

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This hardhat is a real blockhead.

A construction worker used his father’s van to swipe $2,000 worth of tools and $13,000 in landscaping equipment, police said.

Liman Vrlaku, 21, stole a chipping hammer and a jigsaw from a South Beach construction site on Piave Avenue, near Argonne Street, at 4 a.m. Nov. 7, according to court papers.

After being caught, sources say, he confessed to the crime and was linked to taking a lawnmower on Oct. 15 from a storage yard on Van Buren Street, near Lafayette Avenue, in New Brighton.

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Now he has two new titles: crook and tax cheat.

A businessman illegally transferred $227,000 from his real-estate title company into his private bank account and then blew $135,000 on personal expenses, authorities said.

Joseph Burzo, 40, who owns NQT Land Services on Annadale Road, near Sheridan Place in Annadale, pulled the switcheroo sometime between Jan. 1, 2008 and April 16, 2009.

And he is accused of taking more than $200,000 from clients and never buying title insurance for their properties.

Burzo is charged with grand larceny, failure to pay taxes, and fraud, according to a spokesman for DA Dan Donovan.

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