MANHATTAN
* A Midtown bank teller passively but effectively thwarted a note-passing thief, police sources said yesterday.
The robber walked into a Valley National branch at 295 Fifth Ave. at 3:04 p.m. Tuesday and passed a teller a cash-demand note, sources said.
Rather than comply, the bank employee simply stepped away and alerted a supervisor, authorities said.
The rejected robber slinked away.
* An elderly man apparently threw himself from a Midtown office-building window yesterday, cops said.
The body of the 84-year-old man, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was discovered on a tin roof at 469 Seventh Ave. at 10:45 a.m., police said.
According to authorities, the dead man worked next door in an office on the 13th floor of the building.
* Police are investigating the claims of an Upper West Side woman who received numerous offensive late-night phone calls, authorities said yesterday.
The victim, whose name and age were not released, allegedly received the messages containing anti-gay statements at her West 77th Street home at 2:30 a.m. Aug. 26, but reported them only yesterday, cops said. It was not clear why the woman waited four months to alert police.
QUEENS
* Cops are looking for the vandal who scrawled Satanic graffiti on an outer wall of an Astoria church, authorities said yesterday.
The offensive scrawl – the number 666 – was discovered on the rear outer wall of the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church at 30-44 Crescent St. at 7 p.m. Saturday, police said. Authorities are investigating it as a bias incident.
THE BRONX
* A teenager was shot nine times and killed yesterday on a Melrose basketball court in a gang-related fight, police said.
The 17-year-old, who was not identified, was shot after arguing with the two gunmen at 5:30 p.m.
Cops are looking for the shooters. (lcf)
* A 66-year-old woman plunged to her death from her East Tremont apartment building yesterday in an apparent suicide.
The woman, whose name was not released, was found lying face down on the side of her home on Crotona Park North at 12:10 p.m., cops said. Police sources said the woman lived on the third floor.
* A 21-year-old man shot his boss to death in Soundview last week to get out of a job transfer, authorities said yesterday.
Johnathon Smith and pal Thomas Randolph, 17, shot Heriberto Hernandez, 32, to death at the corner of Rosedale and Lacombe avenues at 8 a.m. last Friday, cops said. Hernandez, of Mount Vernon, was rushed to Jacobi Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:48 a.m., authorities said.
Smith and Randolph fled on foot after the shooting, which police sources said was fueled by workplace rage.
Sources said Smith shot and killed Hernandez – his supervisor at their Hunts Point job – because Smith was unhappy about being transferred.
Police would not provide details about where the victim and suspects worked or the nature of the transfer.
Smith and Randolph, who both live on Commonwealth Avenue, are charged with murder.
BROOKLYN
* A one-year-old Bedford-Stuyvesant infant who died two days ago in the care of his baby-sitter, was beaten to death, the Medical Examiner’s office said yesterday.
An autopsy revealed that Josiah Bunch suffered “injuries of neck and torso, with multiple rib fracture and hemorrhages” said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the Medical Examiner’s Office.
The tot fell unconscious last Thursday inside the Albany Houses on Bergen Street while in the care of his baby-sitter.
Police said the sitter is not considered a suspect.
Cops plan to interview the baby’s mother. (lcf)
* Police are trying to unravel the mysterious death of a man on a Crown Heights rooftop yesterday.
The man, whose name and age were not released, was discovered with severe facial trauma on the roof of 764 St. Johns Place at 1:30 p.m., cops said.
Authorities said two shell casings were found on the ground next to the man’s body, but police were not sure if the man was shot on the face or was bashed in the head, sources said.
The man’s exact cause and manner of death will be determined by the medical examiner.
* A 22-year-old man was nabbed in the shooting death of a Brownsville man last month, police said.
Carlos Ward was arrested for gunning down 30-year-old Hector Negron inside 2192 Fulton St. at 10 p.m. on Nov. 16, cops said.
Negron was steps from his fourth-floor apartment when Ward shot him twice in the back of the head, killing him instantly, police said.
According to authorities, Ward killed Negron over a drug-deal dispute.
Ward, of Hull Street, is charged with murder.
STATEN ISLAND
* A Queens woman was busted for selling phony DVDs outside a Mariners Harbor shopping center, authorities said yesterday.
Jung Su, 48, was caught with $1,000 worth of counterfeit movies in front of 1756 Forest Ave. at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, law-enforcement sources said.
When officers set in to arrest Su, she allegedly flailed her arms violently and tried to avoid being handcuffed.
She is charged with trademark counterfeiting, failure to disclose the origin of a recording and resisting arrest.
* A 20-year-old man was arrested for DWI after he was spotted driving on and off the road in Sandy Ground, authorities said yesterday.
Michael McGuinness, of Great Kills, was stopped at the corner of Woodrow and Bloomingdale roads at 3:41 a.m. Wednesday, after cops witnessed his bizarre behavior behind the wheel, law-enforcement sources said.
According to authorities, McGuinness was driving erratically, and when he was pulled over he had slurred speech, watery eyes and a strong smell of alcohol on his breath.
His blood alcohol content registered at .138 when a Breathalyzer was administered at the scene.
* An Emerson Hill man was nabbed with $1,000 worth of counterfeit movies outside an Elm Park store, authorities said yesterday.
Chen Chun, 51, was arrested in front of National Wholesale Liquidators at 1565 Forest Ave. at 12:45 p.m. on Wednesday, law-enforcement sources said.
Police watched Chun sell several phony DVDs before they arrested him.
He is charged with trademark counterfeiting and failure to disclose the origin of a recording.