Manhattan
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Police are searching for the knife-wielding thug (above) who has robbed four victims in Chelsea and Gramercy Park of cash and phones.
The crook most recently struck at the 23rd Street F-train station,, where he approached a victim, 36, on the Brooklyn-bound platform at about 2:50 a.m. on March 17, cops said.
The robbery spree began on Feb. 25 when the thug held up a 38-year-old man at West 26th Street and Broadway at about 12:15 a.m. authorities said.
No victim has been injured.
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A boozed-up teen driver rammed into a taxi in Midtown early yesterday, police said.
The 18-year-old woman drove a 2001 Kia the wrong way up Seventh Avenue near 39th Street and smashed into a taxi at about 7:20 a.m., cops said.
The 59-year-old cabdriver was treated at Bellevue Hospital for neck, head and back injuries.
The teen was taken there for psychiatric evaluation, authorities said, and DWI charges were pending.
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Cops are looking for a bike-riding crook who has snatched more than a dozen smartphones on the Upper East Side and East Harlem, police said.
The thief most recently grabbed the iPhone of a woman Tuesday at about 4:30 p.m. on East 94th Street near the FDR Drive, the latest in a string of 18 heists, cops said.
The bandit is believed to have first struck at about 3:45 p.m. on Jan. 23, grabbing the iPhone of a woman, 36, on East 91st Street near Third Avenue, authorities said.
Police say the suspect is between 30 and 40 years old.
Brooklyn
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A man’s corpse washed ashore near Floyd Bennett Field in Marine Park at about 4:15 p.m. Friday, police said.
The body of the man, believed to be in his 60s, was fully clothed, and there was no apparent sign of physical trauma, cops said.
The Bronx
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Police have identified a suspect in the slaying of a Soundview man last week.
Theodore Simpson, 21, allegedly shot Clayton Graham, 24, in the head in a stairwell at the Monroe Houses at about 8:50 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
Graham was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
Simpson goes by the nickname “Taz,” stands 5-foot-9 and weighs 160 pounds, police said.
