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* A 23-year-old woman told cops she was hit by a stray shot as she walked out of a Longwood bodega, authorities said yesterday.

The victim realized she’d been hit at East 163rd Street and Simpson Street at around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, when she felt pain in her leg and saw blood oozing from her wound.

Sources said the woman was driven to Lincoln Hospital by her husband, who immediately left. She was listed in stable condition. No arrests have been made.

* A Swastika was spray-painted on a Kingsbridge street, police said yesterday. The graffiti was discovered on West 238th Street near the subway yards at around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

MANHATTAN

* Two Bronx men were arrested yesterday on charges of swiping $17,000 from a Wollman Skating Rink worker as he was leaving Central Park to make a bank drop, police said.

Maurice Bragg, 17, and Thompson Curvy, 26, were charged with robbery in Monday’s heist on Center Drive and 60th Street at around noon.

The 23-year-old worker was not injured.

BROOKLYN

* Police yesterday identified a week-old boy who died after he stopped breathing in his family’s Bushwick home.

Essel Dockery was discovered by his mother in the apartment on Flushing Avenue near Humboldt Street at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The baby was rushed to Woodhull Hospital, where he died. Police said his body bore no visible signs of trauma.

QUEENS

* A ski-masked gunman shot a man in the thigh yesterday on a Long Island City street, police said.

The shooting occurred at 12th Street near 40th Avenue at around 6 a.m.

The 23-year-old victim, whose name was not released, was taken to Elmhurst General Hospital, where he was in stable condition.

* A Department of Transportation worker was crushed to death early yesterday when a truck pinned him against a Dumpster in Flushing.

Walter Rogers, 46, was getting ready to pour asphalt on a highway at around 2:30 a.m., when his co-worker backed the truck into him at 30-01 Harper St., police said.

Rogers was pronounced dead at the scene. His 32-year-old colleague was not arrested and was not given any summonses.

* An off-duty city firefighter was arrested yesterday after his child was found with bruises at an undisclosed location in Rockaway, authorities said.

Christopher Coughlin, 41, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Further details were not available.

* A Far Rockaway man was arrested yesterday for fatally stabbing a young man over a prior argument, authorities said.

Carlos Polanco, 19, allegedly stabbed Michael Morales, 18, several times in the lobby of an apartment building on Cornega Avenue near Dickens Street at around 1 p.m. Tuesday.

Polanco was charged with murder and weapon possession.

* A 27-year-old man was shot twice during an argument on a Jamaica street, police said yesterday.

The victim was shot in the arm and leg at 164th Street and 89th Avenue at around 5 p.m. Tuesday, when an unidentified man pulled a gun and opened fire.

The gunman, whose motive was not known, fled. The wounded man staggered into his vehicle and drove to Mary Immaculate Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

STATEN ISLAND

* A 27-year-old man apparently leaped to his death from a structure in Moravian Cemetery in Grant City, authorities said.

The body of the man, whose name was not immediately released, was discovered at Richmond Road and Prescott Avenue at around 10 a.m.

* A man was arrested for stealing a $4,700 check and cashing it at a check-cashing service in Dongan Hills, authorities said yesterday.

Richard Griffin, 33, cashed the check at Hylan Check Cashing Service on May 5. It was not immediately clear how investigators learned the check had been stolen. Griffin was arrested Tuesday and charged with grand larceny.

* An eagle-eyed detective arrested a drug suspect after spotting him with crack on a Stapleton street, authorities said yesterday.

Detective Robert Antonelli saw Richard Diaz, 46, smoking crack-cocaine on Front Street near Prospect Street at around 6 p.m. Tuesday, police said.

Antonelli found two crack pipes and one-eighth ounce of crack in Diaz’s pant’s pocket and a bag of marijuana in his waistband, police said.

Diaz was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance.

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