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MANHATTAN

* Cops are searching for two men who have robbed at least six fast-food restaurants and a dry cleaner over a two-week period.

The first robbery took place in a Gramercy Park fast-food restaurant on Nov. 4 at 7:05 p.m. The men pulled a gun and ran off with an undisclosed amount of cash from the shop at 55 W. 14th St., cops said.

Six days later, the pair robbed a dry cleaner at 220 Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village at 7 p.m. and a Flatiron fast-food eatery an hour later.

Similar stick-ups occurred at four different restaurants over the next week at about the same time of day, with the final two occurring on Monday at 237 Park Ave. and 261 Fifth Ave. In three of the robberies only one stick-up man would enter the shop, police said.

The two men are described as black, in their 30s. One is between 5-foot-10 and 6-foot-0, weighing between 185 and 200 pounds. The other is 6-foot-2 tall and weighs 250 pounds. (lcf)

* Five teens were injured in a fight between groups of schoolkids on an uptown No. 9 train in Harlem yesterday, police sources said.

A 16-year-old and two 18-year-olds were taken to St. Luke’s Hospital with minor stab wounds, as were two other teens who suffered minor bruises.

It wasn’t clear what sparked the dispute between students from different schools as the train passed West 125th Street and Broadway at 3:51 p.m.

Five other teens were taken into custody but weren’t immediately charged. (lcf)

* Three men were arrested after cops found illegal weapons in two Lower East Side stores, police said yesterday.

Cops executed search warrants at 3 p.m. Tuesday at a general-merchandise store on Clinton Street and an Army/Navy Store on East Houston Street.

They recovered 240 gravity knives, 21 daggers, 13 brass-knuckle knives, 26 pairs of handcuffs, two switchblades and one baton, authorities said, as well as fake brand-name merchandise.

Police arrested Robert Shin, 65, Zygmunt Majcher, 53, and Hector Celero, 24, and charged them with weapons possession and trademark counterfeiting.

* An NYPD cop has been suspended for failing to secure a fare-beater who managed to flee police custody from a Harlem jail cell, police said yesterday.

Transit officer Rene Mendez left Elbrin Evangeliste, 19, unsupervised in an unlocked Transit District cell at West 145th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue around 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Evangeliste, who was not cuffed, managed to slip out of the station undetected. Police are continuing their search for Evangeliste, who had been arrested for jumping a turnstile at West 181st Street station. (m, s)

BROOKLYN

* Vandals shattered two windows at a Jewish community center in Sheepshead Bay, cops said.

The vandalism took place between 6 p.m. Tuesday and 7:30 a.m. yesterday at the Madison Jewish Community Center on Avenue T.

* A Rikers Island worker and two other people were arrested for pummeling a man on a Brownsville street, authorities said yesterday.

Kenneth Alexander, a maintenance worker, and Michael Ross, 20, and Sherrill Williams, 22, accosted Damon Smith as he walked with his girlfriend on Fulton Street near Van Sinderen Avenue at 9 p.m. Tuesday.

When the suspects asked, “What’s up?” the couple started walking away.

The trio followed them and pounced on Smith.

THE BRONX

* Four men were arrested in connection with the shooting of an 18-year-old man on a Tremont street, police said yesterday.

Danny Martinez, 16, Edward Monel, 21, Jose Raposo, 19, and Jean Flores, 17, argued with the man at Webster Avenue and East 180th Street around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The dispute escalated into a fight involving a baseball bat and a gun. The man was hit in the leg and taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition.

The four suspects were charged with assault and weapons possession.

QUEENS

* City Parks Department workers found a badly decomposed body near Brookville Park yesterday, police said.

The workers saw legs dangling from a 55-gallon cardboard drum in a wooded area near 149th Avenue and Huxley Street around 11:30 a.m.

Investigators said the body appeared to be that of a black male.

* An auxiliary officer and two other people were arrested in Sunnyside yesterday after cops pulled them over in a stolen vehicle, police said.

Michael Caeser, 23, assigned to the 115th Precinct, and Angelo Pittif, 20, and Ivonne Betancourt, 18, were driving at 37th Street and 48th Avenue around 3:30 a.m. when police stopped their vehicle for an undisclosed reason.

The suspects were charged with grand larceny-auto and criminal possession of burglar tools. (m, s)

* Three white men spewed racial slurs at a black man during a fight near a basketball court in Astoria, police said yesterday.

The trio were playing basketball on a court at Broadway and 32nd Street around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday when a passer-by waved at one of the players he thought he knew.

The three then made the disparaging remarks, engaged in a brief fight with the man and fled.

The victim suffered minor injuries. (m, s)

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