Wearing white coveralls, the girl stood before Judge Michael Hartofilis, at one point looking at her parents and smiling. She was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon and remanded without bail. She’s due back in court on Tuesday.

Police and prosecutors said Rivera and her accused killer both attended Queens Technical High School in Long Island City and knew each other. On Wednesday, the girls were hanging out together at a Wendy’s restaurant in Sunnyside, but got into a verbal disagreement that escalated when the 15-year-old took a knife from her bag and stabbed Rivera in the neck near the Queens Blvd. entrance to the 46th-Bliss Street subway station.

The girl dropped a kitchen knife at the scene and took off, police said. She was chased down by a witness, but she took out another knife and slashed at the man, according to prosecutors.

Officers nabbed her at the Flushing-Main St. station, her clothes covered in blood. Cops found a knife covered in blood at the scene, according to court documents.

Medics rushed Rivera to Elmhurst Hospital Center, but she could not be saved.

Rivera, a high school senior, was beloved by her two older brothers and one older sister, family members told the Daily News after her death.

“She wasn’t just a sister, she was a best friend to me. She was always listening to what I had to say. She would always tell me her problems,” said one of her older brothers, who did not want to give his name.

“Overall she was a good person. … Not every friend was there for her but the ones that were definitely friends for life,” he said.

“She loved to go outside, she loved to explore and travel to different parts of New York City.”

At a memorial for Rivera Thursday outside the Queens subway station where she was killed, friends of the slain teen broke down in tears.

“I’m sorry that this happened to you,” 19-year-old Jasaiah Ortega said, covering his face with his t-shirt as he cried.

On Friday afternoon, the accused girl’s mother sobbed quietly as prosecutors detailed the killing, at one point throwing her head back and opening her mouth in a silent cry, her arms splayed outward.

Prosecutors said the girl gave chilling statements to detectives the night of the stabbing.

“I promise you those b—–s are dead because they are f—–g b—–s not because of this,” she told police, according to prosecutors.

“I hope [Rivera] dies.”

The disgraced movie mogul is in no rush to return to Hollywood. Weinstein denied his consent for California’s extradition request during a brief hearing in Queens Criminal Court and will remain behind bars in New York for at least another 90 days.

Prosecutors said they plan to retry Harvey, whose New York conviction was overturned in the fall.

California authorities have requested that New York City law enforcement officials bring Weinstein, 72, back to the West Coast, where he was also convicted on rape charges, to start serving his sentence there in advance of his new Manhattan trial.

Weinstein was wheeled into the Queens courtroom more than an hour after he was scheduled to appear Wednesday. Wearing a suit and tie, he crouched in a wheelchair. His skin looked pale as he gazed furtively around the courtroom.

He did not speak in court beyond answering yes and no questions.

He was ordered held without bail on Rikers Island on the basis of a fugitive warrant out of California at least until he appears in court here again on Aug. 7. Weinstein was moved to an infirmary at Rikers Island late Monday from Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.

“They are not in a position to extradite Weinstein right now because they have not done what they needed to do,” Diana Fabi Samson, one of Weinstein’s lawyers, said outside court.

Fabi Samson said she also wanted to clarify some of the legal language.

“He’s not a fugitive in the colloquial sense of the word — that’s just the language they use,” she said. “Our main concern is that Mr. Weinstein is here in New York so that we can prepare for the trial.”

“He is holding up as well as he can be under the circumstances of being incarcerated and having the health issues,” she added.

The decision to retry Weinstein was announced earlier this month at a Manhattan Supreme Court hearing attended by the movie producer and Jessica Mann, one of two women he was found guilty of attacking more than four years ago.

A state Supreme Court jury determined Weinstein was guilty of criminal sexual act in the first-degree and third-degree rape in 2020, finding he forcibly performed oral sex on Miriam Haley in 2006 and committed third-degree rape in an incident with Mann in 2013.

He was sentenced to 23 years in prison, which he was serving at the Mohawk Correctional Facility in Rome, N.Y. — where he returned after facing another trial in California that resulted in his December 2022 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges and a 16-year sentence.

The stunning April 25 ruling by the New York Court of Appeals overturning Weinstein’s New York conviction found the trial court judge, James Burke, shouldn’t have permitted testimony by three women — Taralê Wulff, Dawn Dunning, and Lauren Young — about uncharged allegations of sexual violence.

Thursday’s extradition hearing could have taken place anywhere in New York City, a source said. While Weinstein was convicted in Manhattan, a Queens court was selected because of its proximity to Rikers Island, where Weinstein is currently incarcerated as he awaits his new trial, the source said.

Sara Rivera, 17, was knifed outside the 46th St.-Bliss St. subway stop in Sunnyside around 9:35 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.

Family had no idea what could have led to the slaying, allegedly at the hands of a classmate.

The killer dropped the murder weapon at the scene and ran off, cops said. A 15-year-old girl was later taken into custody at the Flushing-Main St. station and charged Thursday with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, according to cops. The two teens attend the same high school.

Cops did not release the suspect’s name since she is a minor. Prosecutors will determine whether to charge her as an adult.

The slaying had striking parallels to the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old girl, allegedly by a 15-year-old girl, at a Bronx building courtyard just last week.

In Wednesday’s slaying, medics rushed Sara from the scene at Queens Blvd. and 48th St. to Elmhurst Hospital Center, but she could not be saved.

The teen was remembered Thursday as outgoing and caring by her heartbroken brother at the family’s Jackson Heights home.

“She wasn’t just a sister, she was a best friend to me. She was always listening to what I had to say. She would always tell me her problems,” the 22-year-old brother, who did not want his name published, told the Daily News. “Overall she was a good person. … Not every friend was there for her but the ones that were definitely friends for life.”

“She would love to talk, she loved to express herself. Even if it wasn’t in the best of ways. She would still like to express herself,” he added. “She loved to go outside, she loved to explore and travel to different parts of New York City.”

The victim was a senior at Queens Technical High School and had two older brothers and one older sister, said the family. She was slain a block from school.

The victim’s brother said that Rivera sometimes had trouble getting along with other teens.

“Some of the kids that she would talk to she might not get along with,” he said. “She’s definitely had some problems in the past with many of her friends. And she would always still try to be friends with them no matter what would happen. And she would always argue and be overly expressive in a bad way sometimes.”

When asked if he knew the suspect in his sister’s stabbing, Sara’s brother said he didn’t recognize her name.

“I have no idea. As of right now we have no idea who the girl was. My sister has never mentioned the girl at all,” he said. “We’re still trying to figure things out and trying to get more information, because we just want to know why? How did it happen?

“My parents, they were just heartbroken and the rest of my family is the same as well,” said the brother. “They didn’t hold up too well. But, you know, we have to be strong together as a family.”

Outside the Riveras’ home, Sara’s friends gathered to mourn and console the victim’s family.

“She was very friendly. She was very lovable. She was a very hyper person. Always put a smile on peoples’ face,” said Natalia Carrillo, 17. “She always was there for people. Always, always, always.”

“She wanted to have her own hair salon,” said Natalia, tearing up. “She wanted us to grow and have our own apartment. Our birthdays are like literally two days apart, so we were gonna be 18 together. And she was like my sister.”

Natalia said the two teens would argue but always made up.

“We would not talk about it for days, and then I would say sorry to her and we would be fine,” said the friend. “I always had her back, and she had my back. We was always together. I don’t know how this happened!”

A 16-year-old friend said she wouldn’t know what to say to the girl who allegedly stabbed Sara.

“I don’t know. I can’t even look at her,” said the teen. “Because it’s like why would you do that? Like I would never.”

Commenters on the 15-year-old suspect’s Instagram page were more blunt.

“You took away a beautiful soul without thinking of the pain you have caused for her family. Hope you get the life sentence,” wrote one user.

“Rot in hell,” posted another. “Justice for Sara.”

Rivera’s brother, who grew up with her in Paterson, N.J., reflected on his sister’s ambitions and potential.

“She would’ve graduated this year. She wanted to go to college to be a psychologist or something along those lines, a therapist,” he said.

“She was still young, and she was just still trying to navigate through the world,” he added.

At an after-school vigil outside the subway station where she was killed, crowds of Sara’s friends and classmates came together Thursday to lay flowers, light candles and release balloons.

In front of the memorial, a teen called for a moment of peace for Sara and led a call-and-response chant. “Let me get a rest in peace for Sara,” the boy yelled.

Teens at the memorial said that Sara and the girl accused of killing her were best friends and that the altercation stemmed from a petty argument.

“To think that your friend is gonna pull up a weapon out of nowhere — it just seems preplanned,” said Balery Gonzalez, 18.

“The other thing was that she was jealous,” added Nathaly Barrera, 18, explaining that Sara was a very likable person who “fit into every group and school” and the suspect, who was younger than her, was envious of that.

Krystal Valentin, 38, has a daughter who was at school with Sara.

“She’s pretty broken up about it,” she said of her daughter. “It could have been my child.”

Teens broke out in tears at the gathering.

“I’m sorry that this happened to you,” 19-year-old Jasaiah Ortega said before he broke down, covering his face with his T-shirt as he sobbed.

Earlier this month, a 17-year-old girl was stabbed to death in the courtyard of a Bronx apartment building.

Emery Mizell was fatally knifed in the chest on Boynton Ave. near Watson Ave. in Soundview around 2:15 p.m. on May 2. A 15-year-old girl taken into custody at the scene was charged with murder.

On Tuesday afternoon, 16-year-old Mahki Brown was shot to death after intervening in an argument between two groups of girls in the courtyard of the luxury Dominick Hotel on Spring St. near Varick St. in SoHo. The gunman and an accomplice took off on one Citi Bike and are still on the loose.

Six hours before Wednesday’s fatal stabbing in Queens, two 15-year-old boys were stabbed in an unprovoked attack on Seabury Place near a McDonald’s on Boston Road in the Bronx.

One victim was stabbed in the chest, the other slashed in the hand around 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, police said. Medics took them to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition.

The students attend the Bronx Envision Academy less than two blocks away.

Relatives of Anthony Dwyer, who was killed in October 1989, said they don’t put any stake in claims by convicted murderer Eddie Matos that he has found God while serving his 25-years-to-life sentence.

“There’s not much else to do in prison except find God or fight the other prisoners,” said the slain cop’s mother, Marge Dwyer.

With a cane in her left hand and a picture of her son pinned to the lapel of her trench coat, Dwyer and her family delivered victim impact statements at the New York State Parole Board’s Manhattan office opposing Matos’ release.

Matos has been denied parole twice in the last 15 months and will receive another hearing next month.

“My son wasn’t given a second chance or a third chance or a fourth chance,” the outraged mother said.

She was surrounded by a cadre of cops, many of whom weren’t even born when her son was pushed off a Times Square rooftop while chasing an armed robbery suspect.

On Oct. 17, 1989, Dwyer and two other cops responded to a call of an armed robbery of a McDonald’s restaurant on Seventh Avenue and W. 40th Street and saw one of the suspects fleeing towards the roof, according to court records. Dwyer pursued him and when he reached the roof, he was pushed into an air shaft  40 feet deep.

It took cops and firefighters more than 30 minutes to pull him out, and he died a short time later at Bellevue Hospital.

“An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.” said Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry.

Hendry said the parole board was “torturing” the Dwyer family by making them relive the tragedy.

“How many chances did our hero Officer Anthony Dwyer get when he was dying at the bottom of an air shaft?” Hendry said. “This is a slap in the face.”

Candido Rodriguez, 51, could be heard wailing before he appeared in front of Judge Michael Ryan in Manhattan Criminal Court, where he was ordered held without bail on a murder charge.

Melanie Woods, 33, was found Tuesday evening in the bathroom of her apartment on Second Avenue near E. 117th St. with more than 20 stab wounds to her neck, torso and legs, Assistant District Attorney Marcella Lupski said.

A panicked friend had called police earlier that day to request they check on Woods, who had planned a trip to California but missed her flight, according to a police source.

Lupski painted a portrait of Rodriguez as an angry ex-boyfriend who had been asked repeatedly by Woods to stay away but kept pursuing her.

Woods “reported to family and friends that the defendant had threatened her with a knife,” Lupski said, adding that there had been many “one-sided messages” from Rodriguez that portrayed him as “angry and hostile.”

According to friends and an online resume, Woods attended UCLA, worked at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and then received a graduate degree from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She also worked for NYC Test and Trace Corps and at the CDC Foundation’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Corps Workforce.

Her family has been inconsolable since learning about the young woman’s death.

“I go from tears to shock to tears to shock,” her sister-in-law Kelly Woods told the Daily News. “She was just such a loved individual. She was so well loved in her community.”

Rodriguez was said to have stalked Woods Tuesday morning, said prosecutors, waiting at the East Harlem building for Woods to come back from walking her dog Delilah.

According to police sources, Rodriguez showed up at the building at 6:15 am in a yellow cab and was seen less than two hours later, at 8:05 am, leaving in another yellow cab.

Loud crashes and raised voices heard by neighbors quieted down by 8 a.m., after which footsteps could be heard going down the stairs, Lupski said.

“The victim did not use her phone again,” said Lupski.

When questioned by detectives, Rodriguez told them he was sleeping Tuesday morning and had not been at Woods’ building, though he admitted they argued in the past about perceived infidelity.

Woods’ former boss Joe Hollendoner, CEO of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, said it was especially disturbing that she had met such a violent end when she was so committed and concerned about the safety of others.

“She was filled with such incredible joy, she was so compassionate, she was one of the most authentic people I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting,” said Hollendoner, who was CEO of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation when Woods oversaw fundraisers and other special events from 2016 to 2018.

“It’s not hyberbolic to say that she was the light in every room that she entered,” he said.

Emily Randall, who called Woods her dog’s “godmother” in a Facebook post, told the Daily News that her friend and former co-worker was “one of a kind.”

“She was funny and smart and really excited about almost everything she did,” said Randall. “She just felt so excited about making the world better and bringing other people along with her.”

On an online fundraiser held to pay for bringing Woods’ body home to California and for funeral services, dozens of people  posted their memories of her.

“To know Melanie was to love her,” wrote her family. “Melanie was a lover of traveling, a best friend to many, an adventure seeker, a loving dog mom, she was someone who always rooted for the underdog and loved to see people thrive and succeed. She was a vibrant soul who brought out the best in anyone around her, this we will never forget.”

Melanie Woods, 33, was found dead in the tub inside her home on Second Ave. near E. 117th St. around 6 p.m. Tuesday after a panicked friend called police asking them to check on her. Woods was planning a trip to California but missed her flight, the worried friend told investigators, according to a police source.

“It was known they were having problems,” a law enforcement source said of Woods and her boyfriend.

According to social media posts by friends and an online resume, Woods attended UCLA, worked at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and then received a graduate degree from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She also worked for NYC Test and Trace Corps and at the CDC Foundation’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Corps Workforce.

Woods made a lasting impression at the AIDS Foundation before moving to New York, a friend and colleague wrote on Facebook.

“When she left to pursue a degree at Columbia University, I made her promise me that we’d have the chance to work together again,” the friend wrote. “To know that her death was an act of violence likely committed by an ex is beyond comprehensible.”

The victim’s boyfriend, Candido Rodriguez, was seen in the apartment building hours before the grisly discovery was made, police said.

When Woods failed to answer messages, her friend and Woods’ mother used an app to track her cell phone. The app showed the device was still in Woods’ apartment. Fearing the worst, they called police, sources said.

Woods was found in her bathtub with stab wounds to her upper body and several cuts on her neck, police said.

Her family has been inconsolable since learning about the young woman’s death.

“I go from tears to shock to tears to shock,” Woods’ sister-in-law Kelly Woods told the Daily News. “She was just such a loved individual. She was so well loved in her community.”

Rodriguez, 51, was seen in the building Tuesday morning, neighbors told police. Cops caught up with him Thursday and charged him with murder and weapon possession.

A neighbor who did not want to be named heard raised voices coming from the victim’s apartment the night before her body was discovered. The argument was so loud it interrupted a work-related phone call, the woman remembered.

“I thought it was an action movie. Like fighting, arguing,” said the neighbor, 27, assuming the argument was on Woods’ television. “I kind of stopped and was like, ‘What the heck is that?'”

The noises stopped in short order. The next morning, the neighbor’s wife heard what she thought was “furniture moving” in Woods’ apartment, along with more loud voices.

They gave it no further thought until Tuesday night, when their floor was swarming with cops.

“We heard (the police) break down the door and then break down another door,” the neighbor remembered. “It’s one of those things where you put it all together and you’re like, ‘Oh.'”

Cops had trouble gaining access to the victim’s apartment because a table had been positioned to block a door, NBC 4 New York reported.

Woods had lived in the building for about a year, said the woman. In hindsight, the neighbor wished she had taken action when she heard the argument.

“When you live in a big city, there’s so many things to explain it before you sit there and go, ‘Is something going on?’” she said. “Sometimes it just doesn’t hurt to just send a call out, just to say, ‘Hey, something sounds weird.’”

Other neighbors also heard the loud argument, as well as someone slamming the door as they left Woods’ apartment, police sources said.

The neighbor and her wife bonded with Woods over their love of dogs: Woods was fostering a dog in the apartment when she died. The dog, Delilah, was found unharmed.

“It’s a shame … because she was a very nice person, very cool,” the neighbor said of Woods. “You could tell she was a good dog mom. (My wife) trusted Melanie implicitly in that regard.”

The woman said Rodriguez appeared to be living with Woods and gave her and other neighbors a “weird vibe.”

“He told us that (Woods) was his wife and then he kind of made weird advances flirtatiously toward my wife,” said the woman. “It was just so contrasting to Melanie because she was so nice.”

Rodriguez would wait for the neighbor’s spouse to leave the apartment to walk their dogs so he could open his door and flirt with the wife.

“There has to be decorum,” said the neighbor, remembering how uncomfortable he made her wife feel. “It came to a point where I would make sure I was always with her. It was just one of those things where you got to be careful.”

Rodriguez’s arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court was pending Thursday.

Woods was “someone who always rooted for the underdog and loved to see people thrive and succeed,” relatives said.

“She was a vibrant soul who brought out the best in anyone around her, this we will never forget,” Melanie’s brother Stephen Woods wrote in a GoFundMe post. “In this difficult time we are left to remember the wonderful times and memories. By holding onto these memories, we can all remember her in our own way.”

With Roni Jacobson

After fleeing to Pennsylvania and crashing the victim’s Lexus they stole from outside the murder scene, Halley Tejada,19, of Manhattan, and Kensly Alston, 18, of the Bronx, used the victim’s credit cards to go on a spending spree that included Apple AirPods, clothing, food, a PlayStation 5 and the ring, according to prosecutors.

Alston, despite the trouble she was in, fancied herself in love, authorities said. The couple had just celebrated her 18th birthday and wound up engaged by the time they were apprehended.

Tejada and Alston were charged Thursday in the death of Nadia Vitels inside the victim’s late mother’s apartment on E. 31st St. near Third Ave. in Kips Bay.

Tejada was escorted out of the 17th Precinct stationhouse dressed in a black shirt, gray sweatpants and flip-flop sandals.

“I’m innocent, I’m innocent,” he told reporters.

“Never,” he said before he was driven away.

Cops believe that the squatters were in Vitels’ mother’s apartment, which had been vacant for a few months, when the 52-year-old woman showed up on March 10 to prepare the pad for a family friend to live in. The victim’s arrival apparently caught the squatters by surprise and they attacked her.

Vitels’ son found his mother’s body, her foot sticking out of the duffel bag in a closet, as they frantically searched the apartment four days later.

Police believe the squatters had been there for a few days before Vitels came to the apartment after arriving from Spain.

“Kensly Alston and Halley Tejada allegedly murdered Nadia Vitels in her own apartment while she was moving in to start a new chapter of her life,” said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. “I send my deepest condolences to her friends and family as they continue to mourn her loss. My office will secure justice for Nadia Vitels.”

After allegedly beating the woman to death, the couple stole her Lexus and drove to Pennsylvania, where they crashed the vehicle in Lower Paxton Township, Penn., about 30 miles from where they were apprehended, police said.

They spent the next week wandering around the area, going to “multiple car dealerships trying to purchase a car for $1,000 which they [were] unable to do,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.

Elizabeth Clerkin, an assistant district attorney, said Tejada yelled at Vitels that he would kill her after Vitels told the couple to leave the apartment.

The couple ended up chasing her into the bedroom.

“Tejada stomped on the head while [Alston] kicked the body,” Clerkin said. “She was still breathing.”

According to the prosecutor, Tejada stomped on Vitels’ head with his bare foot while Alston watched.

“You should put your shoes on before you hurt yourself,” Alston told him, according to Clerkin.

Alston confessed that after dragging Vitels’ body to the kitchen, “she held open the bag while defendant Tejada put Ms. Vitels’ body in the bag and that she was still breathing,” said the ADA.

An autopsy revealed Vitels died from blunt force trauma to the head, the city Medical Examiner said March 15, ruling her death a homicide.

Officials said Vitels’ wrists were bound with tape, her neck and ribs had cords wrapped around them and the Medical Examiner would ultimately find signs of blunt force trauma, rib fractures, bruising and a hinge fracture to the skull, Clerkin said.

Inside the apartment, officers found signs of a struggle, including a dented and broken sheetrock wall the victim’s head may have struck, police sources said.

After the Pennsylvania crash, authorities let them go because they did not know about the body in the apartment yet.

March 22, 2024: Squatters hunted in slay

The couple took advantage of the break and celebrated their nine-day Pennsylvania jaunt with a spending spree, courtesy of their victim, Clerkin said.

“Ms. Alston explained how good their life had been in Pennsylvania,” she said.

Clerkin said security footage captured Alston and her accomplice as they walked around the secure lobby to gain access to the building, pausing before entering the apartment “as if waiting to see if anyone was inside.”

The last time Vitels was seen on surveillance footage was March 12 at 11:30 a.m. She was walking with her dog.

The victim was “never seen alive again,” Clerkin said.

Alston and Tejada were each charged with second-degree murder, burglary, robbery, criminal possession of stolen property, grand larceny and concealment of a human corpse.

Jane Rose, who lives on the Upper East Side, remembers being in college and watching the Simpson murder trial religiously on television.

“I think his life was a tragedy of his own making,” Rose, 65, said on Thursday, a day after Simpson died of prostate cancer at the age of 76. “I believe he was guilty, you know, so I couldn’t applaud the fact that he was acquitted. I mean, two people were dead.”

Simpson, a popular crossover TV pitchman and broadcaster after his playing days, was famously acquitted in 1995 in the double-murder knife deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Both were found stabbed to death outside of Brown’s Brentwood home on June 12, 1994.

Their deaths, Simpson’s celebrity and the so-called “Trial of the Century” set the stage for a real-life reality television drama with Simpson in the role of a Black man accused of killing two white people.

“There was a very big racial thing involved,” Rose said, looking back. “It was a very touchy time.”

Retired lawyer Hyman Silverglad said he had no problem separating the Hall of Fame football player from the man he thinks dodged two murder raps.

“He was a role-model football player, but he wasn’t a role-model human in general,” said Silverglad, 92, who lives on the Upper East Side.

“O.J. Simpson was a murderer. He killed his estranged wife — an innocent woman — and her friend. … He thought she was having an affair with this man and thought it was a blot on his grandeur as a football star.

“He belongs in a garbage can. He does not belong as a role model for American children. He should be dishonored.”

But did he do it?

“Probably,” said Alejandro Mendoza, 56, who lives in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park. “This guy was popular, with money. Money could do anything. I couldn’t say, I’m not even sure if he did it or not. But he really got a chance because he had money. If I did something like that, I probably wouldn’t have a chance.”

Bernie Heevedo of Sunset Park wasn’t shedding any tears, either.

“He went through hell, but he can’t complain,” said Heevedo, 65. “He had a good life. … Then he went to jail for stupid s–t. I think he did [it], and he got away with it.”

Mayo Wilson, 66, a porter from Harlem, prefers to remember the legendary football star.

“It’s not my place to judge,“ he said. “In fact, it’s nobody’s place to judge. We don’t know what happened with his ex-wife, Nicole, and that man, Ron. O.J. was acquitted. O.J. Simpson was one of the greatest football players ever. He ranks with Jim Brown and Joe Namath. He’s a legend. He should remembered for that greatness.”

But Deanna Corleon, 45, of Harlem, said she wasn’t ready to forgive him, not even in death.

“There is no expiration on disrespect,” Corleon said. “O.J. got to see his children grow up. Nicole did not. Karma comes back. And God sees everything.”

Two men were charged this week in separate incidents that were the subject of recent TikTok videos in which the victims said they were punched by strangers. At least four other attacks occurred on city streets this week, police said, causing worried women across the boroughs to take extra precautions when venturing outside.

“I definitely don’t go out at night. Past 8 p.m., I’m in my house unless I’m with somebody else,” said Christina Burke, 28, of Sunnyside, Queens.

“I was scared, because they’re hitting random people. So you don’t even know if it’s a specific type of person they’re looking for,” said Burke, who added that she drives instead of taking subways.

“That’s really bad, because women now can’t be safe outside,” said Karen Alexandra, 28, of Flushing, Queens, who runs a beauty studio. “So if it’s late, we can’t go outside. We have to always be with a lot of women, or men. We can’t be alone. Never.”

Catalina Prieto, 29, said the TikTok videos were circulating on a WhatsApp group she uses to message with friends when she learned a classmate was the victim of a random assault last week near Union Square.

“He just came to her when she was on the phone,” said Prieto of the classmate, who was hit in the arm rather than her face when she moved to avoid the stranger’s punch.

“She was just scared and kind of like, ‘This is happening, for real,'” said Prieto.

On Wednesday, cops arrested political gadfly Skiboky Stora, who they say assaulted TikTok influencer Halley Kate Mcgookin near W. 16th St. and Seventh Ave. in Chelsea at 10:20 a.m. Monday.

During his arraignment on Thursday, Stora, who has frequently run for political office as a fringe candidate, went on a prolonged rant, claiming that he had been framed.

“Now they bring me here and say they have video footage of me punching somebody that I never met and have never seen,” he said before a judge ordered him held on $10,000 bail. “That’s denying me due process, and the same officer is a white supremacist member who has arrested me.”

On Thursday afternoon, cops arrested Mallik Miah, charging him with assaulting TikToker Mikayla Toninato in Greenwich Village Monday.

Toninato was on Fifth Ave. and E. 12th St. at 2 p.m. when Miah struck her, said police. According to a criminal complaint, Miah, 30, identified himself in a still image taken from surveillance footage of the attack. Toninato posted a video to the social media platform right after being punched by Miah.

The day after Toninato was assaulted, Miah was arrested for punching a 53-year-old woman in Fort Greene, said cops. He was arraigned and released in Brooklyn on Wednesday.

Miah was arraigned Friday in Manhattan Criminal Court for the attack on Toninato and released without bail — with Assistant District Attorney Johnathan Leventhal noting he wasn’t able to request bail despite Miah’s arrests for multiple attacks because the Brooklyn arrest happened after the assault on Toninato.

Police are looking into a flurry of other random assaults on women in Manhattan, some of which have been posted about on TikTok.

On March 17 at 11:48 a.m. on Kenmare and Mulberry Sts., TikToker Olivia Brand, 25, was struck by a man who initially apologized to her, she said.

“He goes ‘sorry’ and punches me in the head,” said Brand on a video she posted afterwards. “What the hell is happening?”

A 36-year-old woman was punched in the back on Monday at 10:15 a.m. while walking on Rivington and Chrystie Sts. in the Lower East Side, cops said.

On Tuesday at noon, a 24-year-old woman was attacked by a man who slammed the left side of her head with his elbow while she walked on Seventh Ave. near W. 39th St., according to police.

Also on Tuesday, a 24-year-old woman was hit in the head by a stranger in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, police said Friday.

The victim was walking along Sixth Ave. near W. 23rd St. about 12:45 p.m. when the stranger stormed up and punched her in the head, then ran off without saying a word, cops said.

The woman wasn’t seriously injured. Cops scouring the area found surveillance video of the attacker, who was wearing a black bubble jacket and a hooded sweatshirt.

Cops on Friday could not say if Tuesday’s attack in the Flatiron District was linked to one of the TikTok videos.

Police on Friday released images of the suspect in the Flatiron attack in the hopes someone recognizes him. He’s described as Black, about 35 years-old, 5-foot-10 and 180 pounds with a medium build.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is urged to call NYPD Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.

Adones Betances was convicted last month of first-degree murder in the death of Winston Ortiz, 18, who had been dating the killer’s sister.

Prosecutors said Betances, 26, stabbed the teenager three times in the torso before dousing him with gasoline and setting him ablaze in the hallway of a Highbridge apartment building.

Neighbors smelled fire and heard Ortiz scream, police previously said.

Bodycam video captured Ortiz naming Betances as his killer in the moments before he died on Aug. 12, 2020.

“Winston Ortiz was killed in a torturous manner; stabbed and then set afire while he was still alive, because the defendant was upset that his sister and Winston had had a relationship,” said Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark. “He will be remembered as a caring, family oriented young man and it’s unfathomable to think he was killed in such a horrific way.”

Winston Ortiz

In a courtroom filled with Ortiz’s family and friends, his mother Joan Tamarez spoke of the pain she still felt over her son’s horrible death.

“I still close my eyes and open them hoping this is all a nightmare,” Tamarez said.

She said her father-in-law died a week after Ortiz and her own mother suffered a stroke a short time later.

“This trauma has made us suffer, sick in grief and horror,” she said.

Tamarez was so overcome with emotion that she could not finish her statement. A grief counselor picked up where she left off.

“The defendant is a coward,” the counselor said, reading the statement on Tamarez’s behalf. “I can hear Winston crying out when I lay awake at night.”

She said Ortiz was active at his church and had survived a brain aneurysm.

Ortiz’s father, who is also named Winston, said the murder had “broken us into different pieces and we’re trying to put these pieces back together.”

He said no member of Betances’s family had apologized in the years since the murder, least of all Betances himself. Betances refused to enter the courtroom during the sentencing.

“We can’t have people like that in the street,” the father said.

Ortiz had been dating Betances’ younger sister, who was 14 when she met him at church, authorities said.

Ortiz’s family said the couple had broken up in the days before he was killed.

Judge Jeanette Rodriguez-Morick said the murder was “was carefully thought out and planned.

“So when Adones says he’s innocent,” she said, “it rings hollow and shows a continuing lack of any remorse.”