NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN
*** A Westchester man was shot in his car after he left a SoHo nightclub early yesterday, police sources said.
The victim, 27, told cops he was going home from Club NV on Spring Street when he was shot at the corner of Varick and Canal streets at 4:10 a.m. by a gunman who was in a tan Lincoln Navigator, the sources said.
He was hit in the abdomen and right arm. The gunman sped off, authorities said.
The bleeding man drove a few more blocks until he was able to flag down a patrol car. He was rushed to St. Vincent’s Hospital, where he was in stable condition.
*** Police are investigating an act of vandalism at an Upper West Side synagogue.
A passer-by noticed a huge, 8-foot-by-8-foot swastika drawn on the front door of Congregation Shaare Zedek, at 212 West 93rd St., at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Police have no suspects.
*** Two masked men robbed an Upper East Side parking garage at gunpoint early yesterday, police sources said.
The bandits walked into the underground GGMC garage at 220 E. 92nd St. at around 1:30 a.m., pulled out handguns and took money from the 23-year-old and 58-year-old parking attendants, the sources said.
The workers were not injured and the robbers fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
*** Gun-toting thugs robbed an East Harlem grocery early yesterday, police sources said.
The two bandits strode into the Madison Star Grocery at 1782 Madison Ave. at around 5:20 a.m. One pulled out a black handgun and announced a robbery, sources said. They forced the 30-year- old manager into a back room and made him open up the safe.
The manager handed over an undisclosed amount of money and hid in a rear room until he was sure the thieves had left.
*** Fast-acting cops thwarted a robbery at an East Harlem check-cashing place yesterday, police said.
Officers responding to a report of a robbery in progress at the store at Fifth Avenue and East 111th Street saw the two would-be bandits in the store and arrested them when they tried to flee, authorities said.
The armed assailants had gotten inside by accosting a 35-year-old worker as she was opening the store for the day and forcing her inside. She was not hurt.
Police recovered two guns.
The suspects, Rodney Mitchell Bobbitt, 42, and Damien Moore, 26, were both charged with robbery and weapons possession.
QUEENS
*** A student was arrested on weapons charges yesterday after police found him with a gun in a Fresh Meadows high school, cops said.
Richard Gamarra, 16, was nabbed with a loaded, 9mm semiautomatic inside Holy Cross HS on Francis Lewis Boulevard at about 2:30 p.m. after someone phoned in a tip.
*** A 43-year-old man was punched in the face and subjected to anti-Indian epithets outside his Glen Oaks church, police said yesterday.
The victim, whose name was withheld, had attended services at a Lutheran Church on 263rd street near Union Turnpike when Clifford Schwartz, 42, attacked him at around noon on Sunday, cops said.
Schwartz, who lives across the street from the church, allegedly stood on his porch and taunted the victim with offensive racial remarks before he crossed over and punched him, inflicting a black eye and a small cut.
Schwartz was charged with a hate-crime assault, and could face up to seven years in jail.
*** Two thugs held up a Jamaica grocery at gunpoint, police sources said yesterday.
The duo walked into the Pricemart at 165-24 Jamaica Ave. at 8:50 a.m. Sunday, pulled a gun and forced the shop’s 20-year-old manager into a back room, where the safe is kept, the sources said.
There, one of the bandits pistol-whipped him and demanded he empty out the safe, authorities aid. He complied.
While the pistol-packing thief was in the back, his accomplice was cleaning out the register.
The suspects fled with an undisclosed amount of money.
THE BRONX
*** A group of hoodlums attacked a 19-year-old man inside a Morris Heights building, police sources said yesterday.
The victim, whose name was withheld, was surrounded by six teens, who stabbed him inside an elevator at 135 W. 175th St. at 8 p.m. Sunday, sources said.
The wounded man was rushed to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.
The victim said he does not know who attacked him or why, and has been described as uncooperative, according to the sources.
*** A young man was shot as his brother watched in horror in a Morrisania building, police sources said yesterday.
The brothers, 20 and 16, were riding an elevator in a building on Home Street when an armed assailant grabbed the older youth from behind at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, the sources said.
The victim began to struggle with his attacker, and they spilled out into a fifth-floor hallway, where the gunman shot him in his upper right thigh.
As the brothers tried to get away from the thug, he continued firing.
After they made it to the eighth floor, the siblings called 911 and the wounded man was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he is listed in stable condition. The assailant remains at large.
*** A man was hit in the face with a hammer and stabbed in the shoulder – by a friend – inside an 11th-floor apartment on Havemeyer Street in the Castle Hill section yesterday, police sources said.
The victim, 37, whose name was withheld, was sitting and talking with his friend at about 3:30 a.m. when the attacker got up to go the bathroom and returned with a hammer and a knife, the sources said.
It was not immediately clear what sparked the bloodshed. The wounded man was in stable condition in a hospital.

