Manhattan

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Cops have identified a man wanted for questioning as the “Vaseline Bandit.”

Beginning last September, 40-year-old Luis Gonzalez has allegedly smeared Vaseline on the peepholes of 14 Inwood apartments and knocked on the doors.

Responding occupants aren’t able see him, and he quickly departs. But if no one answers, he tries to break in, said cops, adding that in most cases, he has made off with jewelry and electronics.

Brooklyn

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A sicko sexually preyed on three teen girls in Bushwick, cops said.

The unidentified perv walked into a Laundromat on Knickerbocker Avenue near Bleecker Street at around 8 p.m. Sunday and rubbed up against a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old, authorities said.

He later went to a second Laundromat, on Broadway near Reid Avenue, where he exposed himself to a 13-year-old.

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Police have released photos of a bandit wanted for targeting three Apple Bank branches last year in Crown Heights and Clinton Hill.

The crime spree started last year on Jan. 1 at the branch on Flushing Avenue, when the crook pulled a gun and demanded cash from a teller at 12:20 p.m., authorities said.

On Feb. 1 at 12:14 p.m., he knocked off the Albany Avenue branch at gunpoint, cops said.

He returned to that branch on June 23, passing a note to a teller and escaping with cash, cops said.

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A 72-year-old man killed a neighbor who shared a kitchen and bathroom with him in an East Flatbush home, police said.

Ronald Black allegedly shot Cornell Heslop, 43, in the chest at around 10:15 p.m. Wednesday.

Black was charged with murder and weapons possession.

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Sacrilegious vandals damaged four statues and stole two plaques from a church in Bay Ridge, police said.

The hateful miscreants slipped into the garden of the Visitation Academy RC Church on Ridge Boulevard sometime between 5 p.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. yesterday and committed their despicable crime, police added.

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A thief was as cool as a sea cucumber as he pocketed packages of the seafood delicacy from a Sunset Park grocery store, authorities said.

A manager at the Lucky Star Market on Eighth Avenue was reviewing video surveillance when he spotted a customer filching three packs of sea cucumber and walking off without paying on Feb. 29 and March 5, cops said.

When suspected thief Kin Cheng, 46, returned to the store Tuesday, the manger recognized him and turned him over to police, cops added.

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A pawn-shop employee was busted for twice offering to purchase what undercover cops told him was stolen jewelry in Mount Eden, authorities said.

Francisco Perez-Cabrera, 38, gave a plainclothes officer $95 for a bracelet that the undercover claimed to have swiped on March 8, according to court documents.

“I had a fight with my sister’s boyfriend and I stole it from him,” the undercover told the worker, who allegedly made the deal at G P Pawn Brokers on Mount Eden Avenue.

On March 9, a second undercover attempted to hawk a supposedly boosted ring and Perez- Cabrera allegedly offered him $30.

Perez-Cabrera was busted on March 16.

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A Soundview man was busted for biting his ex-girlfriend in his apartment in violation of a court restraining order banning contact with her, authorities said.

Wesley Williams, 31, sank his teeth in the forehead of ex-girlfriend Michelle Brooks, 33, amid a violent argument at 9:25 a.m. on March 14 in the Monroe Houses on Story Avenue, court records state.

He was charged with assault, menacing, harassment and criminal contempt for allegedly ignoring the order of protection.

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A busy bandit robbed two bank branches in a span of 90 minutes this week, cops said.

He first struck at a Chase branch in Fresh Meadows at around 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Then he resurfaced to pull a heist at 4:30 p.m. at a Capital One branch in Astoria.

No tellers or customers were harmed during the robberies, cops said.