Manhattan

A man was found shot to death in Chinatown early yesterday.

The victim, who was said to be in his 30s, was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the basement of 288 Elizabeth St. at 1 a.m., police said. He was declared dead at the scene and a firearm was recovered nearby.

Queens

A man sexually assaulted a woman while she was talking on a pay phone in Jamaica Hills, police said yesterday.

The 23-year-old woman was using a telephone at the intersection of 164th Street and 82nd Road when a man came up to her, threw her to the ground and tried to molest her.

Cops who showed up at the scene broadcast a description of the suspect over their radios and detectives from the Gang Squad collared a man who fit his description blocks away.

Clifton Jackson, 43, who lives near the scene of the alleged attack, was charged with attempted rape and sex abuse, police said. The victim was taken to Queens General Hospital, where she was treated and released.

Brooklyn

A 17-year-old teen slashed a 60-year-old man’s hands, feet and torso during an attack inside a home at 1285 Schenectady Ave. in East Flatbush yesterday.

Police said it was not clear what prompted the 1 p.m. slashing, or how the men were acquainted.

An 11-inch kitchen knife was recovered at the scene.

Police said the victim’s injuries were not life-threatening.

A homeless man was arrested early yesterday for an anti-gay assault in East New York, cops said.

Darnell Dickerson, 38, allegedly attacked a 38-year-old man at about 4 a.m. as the victim was leaving a building on Liberty Avenue.

Dickerson shouted anti-gay slurs before striking the victim with a blunt object, police said. Dickerson was charged with assault, weapons possession and harassment. It was not immediately clear if he knew the man he allegedly attacked.

A gunman walked into a Brooklyn barbershop yesterday, drew a gun and squeezed off three rounds, hitting two men.

A customer and an employee of the Black and White barbershop on Bond Street in Boerum Hill were injured in the shooting.

The customer was hit in the lower back, and the employee took a round in the arm. Neither injury is considered life-threatening. Doctors at Bellevue Hospital were fighting to save a sanitation employee’s leg yesterday after he rear-ended another garbage truck in East New York.

Keith Bridges, a 31-year-old sanitation worker with 2½ years on the job, suffered “extensive damage” to his left leg during the mid-morning collision, an official said. The other driver, who was not identified, suffered only minor injuries.

STATEN ISLAND

An emotionally disturbed 29-year-old man died at a hospital early yesterday after cops were summoned to his home to subdue him, police said yesterday.

William Sawicki Jr. apparently became deranged shortly after 3 a.m. inside a home on Parish Avenue.

When his father had difficulty restraining him, cops were called to the scene. Officers requested the assistance of Emergency Service Squad personnel – standard policy in such cases – and Sawicki was taken to St. Vincent Hospital, were he was declared dead shortly after 5 a.m., police said.

It was not clear what caused Sawicki’s death and the Medical Examiner’s office is expected to conduct an autopsy.

(p. 10 Metro, Sports)