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Queens

Two goons jumped a man on a Fresh Meadows street and stole his cellphone, authorities said.

Khizar Habib, 18, and an accomplice pulled up in a Honda Civic next to a pedestrian near Booth Memorial Avenue and 175th Place at 3:45 p.m. Dec. 20, court papers reveal.

Habib jumped out and allegedly snarled, “Let me see your phone before I do something bad to you!”

The victim handed over his Motorola Sidekick, but Habib punched him anyway and the accomplice hit him in the head with an unknown object, sources said. Habib was arrested the next day.

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Booted from a Woodside bar for failing to pay for his drinks, Tenzin Kalsang, 25, took off his belt, then took out his anger on the next person passing by, authorities said.

He whacked the stranger in the face outside the watering hole near Woodside Avenue and 60th Street just before 2 a.m. Dec. 19, according to court papers.

Brooklyn

An armed teen and his accomplice tried unsuccessfully to rob a passer-by in Ditmas Park, sources said.

Louis Legendre, 18, pointed a gun at the victim near Flatbush Avenue and Vanderveer Place at 10:10 p.m. Wednesday, the sources said.

“Don’t run. Don’t move,” Legendre sneered, as his partner made a grab for the man’s cash and cellphone, the sources said.

But the victim took off and flagged down two plainclothes cops, and they arrested Legendre, the sources said.

The accomplice escaped.

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A man was killed by a vehicle early yesterday in Borough Park, cops said.

The unidentified victim, believed to be in his 30s, was found at 4:45 a.m. by a sanitation worker at 39th Street near 12th Avenue.

He was taken to Maimonides Hospital where he died.

Manhattan

A Harlem mother-and-daughter team defrauded the city Housing Authority of $2,400 over 2009 and 2010, authorities said.

Patricia Mitchell, 44, who lives in the Harlem River Houses on Seventh Avenue near West 151st Street, is charged with grand larceny and offering a false instrument for filing, the Department of Investigation said.

Her daughter, Erica, 25, of The Bronx, is accused of falsely claiming to be a victim of domestic violence to receive priority Section 8 status.

She wrongly received $30,000 in subsidies from September 2006 to December 2010 and is charged with grand larceny, authorities said.

Bronx

A truck barreling through a Hunts Point intersection sideswiped a police sergeant directing traffic, sources said.

Elliot George, 60, was behind the wheel of a Chevrolet truck as it hurtled toward Garrison and Leggett avenues at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, the sources said.

As the truck’s side mirror clipped the sergeant, he grabbed a hold of it and banged on the window to get George’s attention.

But the truck continued to plow on — dragging the officer for several feet before George finally braked to a stop, the sources said.

The sergeant suffered scrapes on the left side of his face.

Staten Island

An alleged drug dealer was nabbed doing a brisk business in West Brighton, authorities said.

Cops said they spotted Joseph Jackson, 38, peddling narcotics at Broadway and Henderson Avenue at 11:35 a.m. Wednesday.

A search turned up eight bags of cocaine and five bags of pot in his pants.

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