MANHATTAN

*** A West Village woman was smashed in the face with a thick piece of wood yesterday as she left her building to take a jog, cops said.

The woman, whose name was withheld, walked out of her West 10th Street apartment just after 7 a.m. to jog near West Street when an unknown attacker pounced on her and hit her with a piece of lumber, police said.

The man ran off without taking anything from the woman in her late 20s. She refused medical attention.

Her attacker is described as a black man standing 6-feet tall with a muscular build. He was wearing a white T-shirt and baggy black pants.

*** Four Hasidim were ridiculed and harassed by two women as they rode a subway, police said yesterday.

The victims, a 24-year-old man, his two sisters, ages 23 and 22, and another man, 23, hopped on a southbound 4 train at Grand Central Station at around 9:30 p.m. Thursday.

They sat across from Jennifer Moore, 21, and Shamika Lawrence, 20, who threw a piece of candy at them, hitting one of the women in the neck, and began taunting them about their Orthodox Jewish dress, police said.

The derogatory comments and candy tossing continued until the victims got off the train at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall stop and pointed their aggressors out to cops.

Moore and Lawrence, both of Brooklyn, were charged with aggravated harassment.

THE BRONX

*** Two boys made a grisly find while playing in Throgs Neck yesterday – a woman’s badly decomposed body, cops said.

The two children were playing Frisbee near Bruckner Boulevard and the Hutchinson River Parkway when an errant toss led them to find the unidentified woman’s corpse in a wooded area at 1:45 p.m., police said.

The decomposed body appeared to have been there for at least a month, sources said.

The medical examiner will perform an autopsy to determine how the woman, believed to be 40 years old, died.

*** A dispute over drugs sparked a bloody melee that left one man dead and two others injured outside a South Bronx housing project, authorities said yesterday.

The violence began at about 3:55 p.m. Monday as a group of men were fighting in the courtyard of the Patterson Houses.

During the brawl, one of the men pulled a knife and pushed another man to the ground, a witness said. The witness said he heard the man who was shoved say, “I’ll be back.”

The man returned later with a gun and opened fire, hitting Kevin Freeman, 25, in the chest. Freeman later died at Lincoln Hospital.

Two other people were shot – Carlos Velez, 19, was struck in the head and critically wounded, and an unidentified man was hit in the leg. His injury was not life threatening.

BROOKLYN

*** Three men were busted for attacking a family with knives as they sat in front of their Cypress Hills home, law enforcement sources said yesterday.

Nelson Abreu, 28, Jose Abreu, 22, and Elvis Abreu, 20, walked up to the Elton Street home, where Malady Cruz, 39, her two sons, ages 14 and 16, and an 18-year-old friend were chatting on a porch.

The names of the youths with Cruz were not released. It was not immediately clear if the Abreus were related.

Elvis Abreu accused the 14-year-old of robbing him a few minutes earlier. Malady Cruz told Abreu that he was mistaken because her son had just came out of the house.

Brandishing knives, the three Abreus stepped onto Cruz’s porch. Elvis Abreu stabbed the 14-year-old in his leg and the 18-year-old friend in the back and leg.

The trio fled, but were later captured by police in a nearby park. They were charged with assault, menacing and endangering the welfare of a child.

The stabbing victims were taken to Jamaica Hospital. Their conditions were not available.

*** A 31-year-old woman threw a knife at the head of her mother and beat her, police sources said.

Victoria Sankar, 31, of Gerritsen Beach, was arrested at around 3:50 p.m. Thursday, 30 minutes after she went berserk inside her mother’s Gerritsen Avenue home, authorities said.

According to sources, Sankar and her mother, who have a history of domestic disturbances, began arguing at around 3:20 p.m. That’s when Sankar grabbed her mother by her hair, tore at her clothes and chest, and scratched her chest and the side of her face, authorities said.

After that, Sankar overturned her mother’s furniture and threw a steak knife at her head, but missed.

Her mother was able to lock her out of the house. That enraged Sankar even more, prompting her to hurl two bricks through her mother’s kitchen window and threaten to kill her, law enforcement sources said.

Sankar was charged with assault, menacing, criminal mischief and weapons possession. Her mother refused medical attention.

*** A Williamsburg man was busted for assaulting his pregnant wife and punching her 9-year-old son in the face, law enforcement sources said yesterday.

Zeader Rickman, 21, first attacked his pregnant 34-year-old wife on Sunday, punching and biting her at the family’s Humbolt Street apartment, authorities said.

At 9 a.m. Thursday, Rickman allegedly punched the woman’s legs during an argument. He then left the apartment.

At around 3:30 p.m., Richman returned home and began packing his clothes in his bedroom, telling his wife he was leaving her, law enforcement sources said.

Moments later he punched the 9-year-old in the face for knocking on the bedroom door while he was packing.

His wife locked him out and called cops. Rickman was charged with assault, menacing, harassment and endangering the welfare of a child.

STATEN ISLAND

*** A 24-year-old man was busted in the Staten Island Mall for snapping pictures of women shoppers’ private parts, law enforcement sources said.

Jonathon Arnez, 24, allegedly admitted taking photos of women’s buttocks on Wednesday and Thursday.

Arnez was caught Thursday evening snapping shots underneath an unsuspecting woman’s skirt inside Spencer Gifts, law enforcement sources said. He was charged with unlawful surveillance and attempted unlawful surveillance.