The Bronx

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Four hoodlums shot a man during a botched robbery, police said.

The 36-year-old victim was shot once in the torso as he entered his parked car in front of 3706 Third Ave. in Claremont at about 6 p.m. Tuesday.

The perpetrators ran off empty-handed and the man received hospital treatment.

A thief used stolen blank checks to take money from the bank account of an unwitting victim, authorities said.

A man told police he was robbed of his wallet, which contained the checks, on Jan. 14, court papers state. Two days later, $15,000 was withdrawn from his Amalgamated Bank account and deposited into an account at a Capital One branch in Flushing.

Later, Malik Gilkes, 17, was seen withdrawing $500 from that account, court records show.

Gilkes was picked up on Jan. 26, cops said.

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A failed reality-TV star from Arden Heights was among four people nabbed in car-insurance scams, authorities said yesterday.

Rebecca Kudryavsky, 27, allegedly filed a false report in May 2011 with GEICO stating that her Lexus SUV had been stolen.

Turns out the vehicle was being legally driven by a man who had co-signed the lease.

Kudryavsky, who had been slated to appear in a never-shown TV show chronicling her and her professional-poker-player beau, was busted Tuesday.

Also collared in separate scams were Sharon Sozio, 31, Jeremy Tighe, 35, and John Coscia, 42, said a rep for DA Daniel Donovan.

Manhattan

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The hard times for the Mets continue.

The robber pictured above was wearing a jacket emblazoned with the beleaguered baseball team’s logo when he knocked off the Apple Bank at 4 Irving Place in Gramercy at about noon Wednesday.

He passed a teller a demand note and made off with an undisclosed amount of moolah.

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The two suspects pictured above are wanted for targeting a pharmacy on the Upper East Side and a cellphone store in the East Village, police said.

One of the men took drugs at gunpoint from a worker at Health Source Pharmacy at 1302 Second Ave. at around noon on Dec. 12.

He and an accomplice held up a Metro PCS store on East 14th Street on Jan. 6 and Jan. 20, making off with cash and an employee’s cellphone.

Brooklyn

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This thief likes to fuel up on cash.

An armed crook targeted two Gulf stations in two boroughs in 30 minutes, police said.

The bandit first struck in Greenpoint at 3:20 a.m. Tuesday, shooting an attendant in the arm and torso as he fired at the locked glass door of the station at 176 McGuiness Blvd., police said.

The gunman climbed through the shattered door and took cash from the register.

He struck again just before 4 a.m. at a station on 21st Street in Astoria, Queens, police said.

He robbed the attendant and a cabdriver gassing up a taxi, police said.

The wounded Brooklyn attendant is expected to survive his wounds.

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Cops are hunting the burglar who broke into an auto-body shop in Gravesend.

The bandit slipped in through the garage door of Classic Car Care Center at 2944 86th St. at 5:40 a.m. on Jan. 21 and grabbed wads of money from the safe and register.

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Three punks bashed a teen in the head with a metal pipe outside a Gravesend high school yesterday morning, authorities said.

The hooligans, whose names were not released, attacked Lawrence Qui, 17, and A.J. Maldonado, 16, just before 9 a.m. across the street from John Dewey HS on Avenue X, cops said.

The young thugs allegedly smashed Qui with a pipe before one culprit tried to steal headphones and a cellphone from Maldonado, who fought back.

“I just kept hitting him until he ran away, and then the cops caught him,” Maldonado said. “It was self-defense.”

Qui was rushed to Lutheran Hospital and will require staples to close a head wound, education officials said.

The assailants, ages 17, 18 and 21, were charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon.