Manhattan
Police yesterday were searching for the woman pictured above who robbed a Harlem bank.
The suspect, wearing a black beret, large sunglasses, a black hooded sweatshirt and dark pants, walked into the Chase branch at 55 W. 125th St. at 4:20 p.m. last Friday.
She slipped a demand note to a teller and fled with an unknown sum of cash.
Three 15-year-old boys were arrested for beating and robbing two older teens near the Guggenheim Museum, authorities said yesterday.
The suspects confronted the 18-year-old male victims at East 88th Street and Fifth Avenue at 9 p.m. last Thursday.
The trio assaulted the victims and grabbed a wallet and cellphone, sources said.
Cops arrested the muggers, who were charged with robbery, a DA spokeswoman said.
In a wrinkle on purse-snatching, an Upper East Side man was busted for swiping $4,400 worth of fancy pocketbooks from a Barney’s, authorities said yesterday.
Joseph Giacchi, 63, grabbed four Givenchy pocketbooks in the store at Madison Avenue and East 61st Street at noon Saturday, a court complaint says.
A security guard saw Giacchi leaving with the upscale goods and grabbed him.
The suspect was charged with grand larceny and possession of stolen property, the DA’s spokeswoman said.
A prolific pickpocket was busted at an East Village bar, authorities said yesterday.
Nathaniel Green, 44, allegedly was spotted putting his hand inside the purse of a patron in Dempsey’s, at Second Avenue and East 2nd Street at 1 a.m. Sunday.
An eagle-eyed bartender grabbed Green and found him in possession of three other wallets and an iPod belonging to patrons, sources said.
Green was charged with grand larceny, possession of stolen property and petit larceny.
Brooklyn
An intoxicated knife-wielder was arrested after threatening a Park Slope car-service dispatcher, authorities said yesterday.
Gerard Gilchrist, 26, walked into the car-service office at 4th Avenue and St. Marks Place at 2:17 a.m. Sunday and tried to hire a car to take him home, cops said.
When the dispatcher told him there’d be a 30-minute wait, Gilchrist pulled a knife and menaced the dispatcher, sources said.
Gilchrist was busted on charges of menacing, harassment and weapon possession.
Two Flatbush burglars were busted for break-ins at two businesses, authorities said yesterday.
Alain Desravines, 22, and Jeffery Reader, 17, forced their way into a Bally’s gym on Tilden Avenue near Flatbush Avenue at 11 p.m. on July 14, cops said, and swiped several T-shirts.
The duo allegedly struck again just after midnight Monday, climbing a ladder to slip through a second-floor window at an athletic-shoe store on Flatbush Avenue near Snyder Avenue.
Police busted the pair on burglary charges.
A man was found dead in the bedroom of a Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment yesterday, police said.
The man, in his 40s, was discovered unconscious in the apartment on Macon Street near Stuyvesant Avenue at 10:30 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Staten island
Three assailants brutally beat a man who had slashed two of them during a brawl outside a Mexican restaurant in Port Richmond, authorities said yesterday.
Suspects José Pineda, 41, Octavio Reyes, 33, and Gilberto Salazar, 28, clashed with the 31-year-old man at Port Richmond Avenue and Anderson Avenue at 10:20 p.m. Monday, cops said.
The man allegedly pulled a razor and slashed Salazar and Pineda, police said.
The slashing victims, along with Reyes, then punched and kicked the slasher into unconsciousness, sources said.
Cops arrested the three men, who were charged with assault and gang assault, a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said.
The beating victim was hospitalized in the intensive-care unit.
A smash-and-grab thief has been arrested for swiping a GPS system from a car in Princes Bay, authorities said yesterday.
Kevin Carey, 33, allegedly smashed the passenger-side window of a 2007 Lexus at Hylan Boulevard and Holdridge Avenue at noon on Aug. 6.
A witness saw Carey remove the navigation device and flee in a black Nissan, sources said.
Some time later, the witness’s brother saw a man fitting Carey’s description and alerted cops.