MANHATTAN

* Cops are seeking the public’s help in capturing a vicious thug who has assaulted and robbed seven women on the Upper East Side. The six incidents occurred from Oct. 9 to Nov. 5. In each case, police said, a man followed his victims, punched them in the face and shouted at them, “Don’t you look at me.” He then snatched their wallets. He used two of his victims’ ATM cards to make cash withdrawals, totaling about $800, cops said.

The attacker is described as a light-skinned black or Hispanic man, 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-10, 160 to 180 pounds and 25 to 30 years old. Anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

* Police have busted up four Chinatown counterfeiting operations and arrested five people. At around 3:30 p.m. Monday, cops executed search warrants at two buildings on Broadway near Howard Street, where the alleged scam artists were operating.

Detectives recovered about $600 in cash and more than $500 in counterfeit handbags, DVDs, CDs and clothing. They also confiscated more than $150 in counterfeit watches. Four men and one woman, ranging in age from 21 to 30, were charged with trademark counterfeiting.

* A woman died in an apparent suicide yesterday after she plunged from an Upper West Side apartment building, a police source said. The body of Betti Jaker, 47, was discovered at about 6 p.m. on 96th Street near Riverside Drive, the source said. Jaker had a psychiatric history and previously attempted suicide, according to the source. (m, s)

* The body of a 70-year-old man was found yesterday on a subway train in Washington Heights, police said. The body of Arthur Darrington was discovered slumped in his seat at around 8:30 a.m. on a northbound A train at the West 168th Street station. Police could not immediately determine the cause of death, but said the body had no visible signs of trauma. (m, s)

BROOKLYN

* A man shot in Crown Heights over the weekend has died, and cops are searching for his killer. An unidentified gunman fired a bullet into Omar Warren at around 9 p.m. Sunday at the corner of Schenectady Avenue and St. John’s Place, police said. The assailant fled. Warren, 20, was taken to Kings County Hospital in critical condition.

* An off-duty NYPD officer plunged to his death from a ladder while cutting down a tree on Long Island, a police source said yesterday.

Peter Ferraro, 32, assigned to Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct, was working for a landscaping company on a private lot Monday at around 3 p.m. when he apparently lost his balance and fell, the source said. Ferraro was taken to St. Francis Hospital of Roslyn with head and neck injuries, and was pronounced dead.

* A 2-month-old boy died yesterday after he was found unconscious at his family’s East New York home, police said. Yasin Murray was discovered in his bed by his mother at around 2:30 p.m. on Dumont Avenue near Warwick Street. He was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The death has not been ruled suspicious. (m, s)

STATEN ISLAND (lcf)

* A teacher’s aide was charged with fondling a 12-year-old student in a Great Kills middle school, police said. Michael Doughtery, 55, allegedly touched a girl’s breast at IS 24 on Nov. 19. Doughtery, who was arrested yesterday at the Cleveland Avenue school, was charged with sex abuse and endangering the welfare of a minor.

* Homicide detectives yesterday said they had solved the 15-year-old murder of a West Brighton woman. Wayne Decker, 39, of Van Pelt Avenue, has been charged with the December 1987 bludgeoning death of 31-year-old Victoria Mason.

Mason, a barmaid, was discovered beaten to death on a sofa in her second-floor Post Avenue apartment. A bloodied baseball bat was found nearby.

It is unclear how authorities linked Decker to the crime.

THE BRONX

* A 21-year-old man was repeatedly stabbed early yesterday when a dispute erupted in Morris Heights, police said. The violence broke out about 2:30 a.m. on West Burnside Avenue near Jerome Avenue, where two unidentified men in the their late teens or early 20s stabbed the victim several times in the back, cops said. The attackers fled.

The victim, whose name was not released, was taken to Bronx Lebanon Hospital in critical but stable condition. Cops were searching for the assailants.

QUEENS

* A woman was fighting for her life yesterday after the car in which she was a passenger crashed into another vehicle in Rego Park, police said. The accident occurred about noon when a 54-year-old man driving a 2002 Nissan traveling west on Queens Boulevard collided with a 1995 Honda heading south on 62nd Drive, police said.

A 50-year-old woman in the back seat of the Honda was pinned inside, cops said. She was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in critical condition. No one else was injured.

Police were investigating the cause of the crash.