The 29-year-old victim and the gunman got into a fight on an A train, which spilled out onto the corner of W. 145th St. and St. Nicholas Ave. upstairs, according to witness Rashard Flowers, who was in the same subway car.

“It was definitely four shots,” the 37-year-old told the Daily News. “He was shot in the arm and leg, his head was bleeding but he was able to get up.”

The victim ran into a Dunkin’ Donuts, where he collapsed.

“I’ve never heard gunshots so close and so loud,” said Flowers. “There are women and children out here — anybody could’ve gotten hit.”

The gunman took off on foot as cops raced to the scene just after 4:35 p.m., police said.

Medics took the victim to Harlem Hospital, where he was expected to survive.

There were no immediate arrests.

Employees at Rothschild TLV on Lexington Ave. near E. 79th St. arrived to work Wednesday morning to discover one of the tall front windows had been shattered overnight.

The manager and owner of the spot reviewed surveillance footage, which caught a man approaching the window at around 2:10 a.m., he said.

“We saw him on the footage,” Mike Kalbo told the Daily News. “His face was covered with a scarf. It was very difficult to see. He came with a tool in his hand to break the glass. We were targeted.”

The NYPD could not immediately provide details and it has not been determined the restaurant was targeted for serving kosher eats, though the department’s Hate Crime Task force has been notified of the incident.

The vandalism echoed a recent incident on the opposite side of town.

In March, Israeli restaurant Effy’s Cafe on W. 96th St. near Columbus Ave. on the Upper West Side was vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti.

The metal gate covering the cafe was covered with red paint at night, while “form line here to support genocide” was spray-painted in black on the sidewalk just outside the entrance. Another sidewalk message, painted green, read “Free Gaza.”

Kalbo believes his restaurant, named after a lively boulevard in Tel Aviv, was picked out by a vandal with similar intentions.

“What else could it be?” the restaurateur said. “A crazy person wouldn’t come with his face covered and a tool in his hand. It’s obvious. There is no doubt.”

The incident came on the heels of scores of protests across the city, including several pro-Palestinian encampments at city universities and colleges that ended in hundreds of arrests.

On Wednesday night, a small group of pro-Palestinian students said they were “occupying” the lobby of the CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown, though they left after declaring victory and saying administrators had agreed to forward their demands to the entire student body.

Meanwhile, antisemitism has surged in the city since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, prompting a ferocious war in Gaza. Antisemitic hate crimes more than doubled that month alone.

As of April 14, there were 96 hate-fueled incidents targeting Jewish people, according to NYPD stats. The figure marked a 45% uptick compared with the same time frame last year, when cops investigated 66 antisemitic hate crimes.

The attacks against Jewish New Yorkers made up 56% of all hate-motivated crimes across the five boroughs, the stats showed.

Wednesday’s incident left Rothschild TLV manager Deana Pekanovic rattled.

“I was shocked,” she said. “It’s really horrible this happened. It’s been a while since the war started, and we’ve never had any issues here. We’ve only had support. We’ve never had any problems.”

The two students, ages 15 and 17, faced off at the Stephen T. Mather Building Arts & Craftsmanship High School on W. 49th St. near 10th Ave. about 1:20 p.m. on Tuesday, police said. The younger teen was slashed in the face while the older boy was stabbed in the chest during the clash.

Both were taken to area hospitals with minor wounds, cops said. About three hours later, cops charged each boy with assault for attacking the other. The teens’ names were not released because of their age, police said.

The school was put into a soft lockdown following the clash, an Education Department spokesman said. Students were told to move out of sight and keep silent while teachers checked the hallway, locked classroom doors and turned off the lights.

The school is nonscanning, meaning students are not required to walk through metal detectors on their way in, sources said.

About the same time in the Bronx, a 15-year-old boy attending the Evander Childs Educational Campus on E. Gun Hill Road near Bronxwood Ave. in Williamsbridge was slashed in the back of the neck during a fight with an older boy.

The teen refused medical attention, and the 17-year-old who attacked him was charged with assault, cops said.

And about 2:40 p.m. on Tuesday, an 18-year-old student at the Queens High School of Teaching, Liberal Arts and Sciences was stabbed in the back and slashed in the left arm during a fight with a fellow student. No arrests have been made in that incident.

Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly occupied the lobby of the CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday night, about two weeks after big NYPD crackdowns at City College of New York and other campuses.

Roughly two dozen students demonstrated for several hours inside the lobby on Fifth Ave. near E. 34th St., hanging banners and dubbing the Center’s library “The Al Aqsa University Library.”

Al Aqsa University, the oldest public university in Gaza, has been destroyed during Israel’s war on Hamas.

About 75 protesters stood in the rain outside the Graduate Center waving Palestinian flags. Dozens of NYPD cops lined the street outside the building but did not breach the building. Meanwhile, students were seen diligently studying inside the library as the spring semester wound down.

Students involved in the demo called on administrators to negotiate a divestment from “Israeli weapons, tech and surveillance companies.”

Around 10:30 p.m., students emerged from the Graduate Center and declared victory, telling protesters on the street that after negotiations, CUNY administrators agreed to forward their demands to the entire student body.

The protesters lit a traffic flare and evacuated the library, which custodians immediately began cleaning up.

Organizers indicated they’d been motivated by campus crackdowns that made national headlines earlier this month.

“On April 30, the City College administration called the New York Police Department to dismantle the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment, resulting in brutalization of protestors and almost 200 arrests,” the students said in a statement before leaving the building. “On May 13, CCNY threatened pro-Palestine students with suspension for protesting on their own campus.”

On May 1, police made 173 arrests after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied a City College administration building, vandalizing offices and shattering glass doors, before CUNY called in the NYPD to clear the encampment, officials previously said.

A CUNY Graduate Center spokeswoman did not immediately requests for comment Tuesday night.

Clifton Williams, 50, is accused of socking “The Big Lebowski” star in the face as he walked on Third Ave. near E. 27th St. in Kips Bay  just before 11:50 a.m. Wednesday, police said.

Medics took Buscemi to Bellevue Hospital, where he was treated for bruising, swelling and bleeding to his left eye.

Buscemi was “OK” after the attack, according to the actor’s publicist.

Surveillance photos released by police Tuesday show the attacker, who is still being sought.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

Cops were called to the Stephen T. Mather Building Arts & Craftsmanship High School on W. 49th St. near 10th Ave. in Hell’s Kitchen around 1:20 p.m. after the fight.

They found the boys — one slashed across the face, the other, stabbed in the chest — cops said.

Both teens were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries and were taken taken into custody by police, they added.

Charges were not immediately filed.

The school was put into a soft lockdown following the knife attack, a Department of Education spokesperson said.

A “soft” lockdown means there’s no imminent danger, according to Education Department policy. Students are trained to move out of sight and keep silent and teachers check the hallway for students, lock classroom doors and turn off the lights.

The school is non-scanning, meaning students are not required to walk through metal detectors on their way in, sources said.

“The safety and wellbeing of our students is our top priority,” said Jenna Lyle, a spokeswoman for the public schools. “Violence has absolutely no place in our schools, and this behavior is unacceptable.”

The caught-on-video attack in Chelsea was at least the fourth unprovoked assault in the city in the past week.

The victim, sporting a backpack, was walking down Seventh Ave. when a lanky man lunged toward him near W. 23rd St. about 10:50 a.m. Monday, video of the incident obtained by ABC7 New York shows.

The victim winced and reared back just as the stranger, believed to be about 50, swung a plastic shopping bag in the air, striking the pedestrian in the head, the video shows. The assailant then ran off and has not been caught.

The victim was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital where he was treated for a deep cut to the back of his head and released.

While the assault appears random cops were trying to determine if the two men, who are strangers, had a brief interaction before this occurred.

Over the last week there have been at least four apparently random attacks in the city, beginning last Wednesday when someone whalloped “Boardwalk Empire” actor Steve Buscemi as he walked along Third Ave. in Kips Bay.

The attack took place around 11:50 a.m. near E. 27th St., cops said. Medics took the “Fargo” actor to Bellevue Hospital, where he was treated for bruising, swelling and bleeding to his left eye.

On Friday afternoon in Harlem, a stranger stormed up and struck an 11-year-old girl with a box cutter for no apparent reason, cutting through the child’s long black hair and slashing the back of the pre-teen’s head.

Shaquan Cummings was arrested after Malgorzata Sladek, the child’s outraged mother, and a mob of witnesses cornered Cummings in a doorway near E. 116th St. and Lexington Ave. Several cops saved Cummings from the mob and charged the assailant with assault, endangering the welfare of a child and weapon possession. He was ordered held without bail when he was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court Saturday.

On Saturday, 36-year-old Amber Lohr was knifed in the chest in Times Square as she chaperoned a group of students from western Pennsylvania.

Lohr stumbled backwards from the 6:15 p.m. attack outside the Port Gourmet Deli near W. 43rd St. and Eighth Ave. but managed to protect the children she was watching from any harm.

The accused attacker, Cyril Destin, sat back down and was taken into custody. Destin was hospitalized after his arrest. His arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court was pending Tuesday.

Just last month cops investigated a spree of unprovoked attacks on women, some of which were detailed on Tik Tok.

On April 23, cops arrested Daquan Armstead, 31, for a violent spree of unprovoked attacks, which began on Feb. 12 and continued until a week before his arrest, police said.

He was charged with multiple counts of assault as a hate crime and aggravated harassment for targeting women in Greenwich Village, Tribeca, the Lower East Side and the Bowery.

With Rocco Parascandola

Trump’s ex-lawyer reads disparaging posts to his boss’s face

Defense lawyer Todd Blanche, straight out of the gate, gave the jury an idea of what they’re in for — starting his cross-examination by asking Cohen if he’d recently referred to him on TikTok as a “crying little s–t.”

“Sounds like something I would say,” Cohen retorted.

Justice Juan Merchan then sustained an objection from the prosecution, held a sidebar, and struck the question from the record.

Moments later, Blanche went in again, asking if Cohen had called Trump a “dictator douchebag,” to which Cohen again replied that it sounded like something he’d say.

Confronted later in the questioning with previous statements he’d made praising Trump — calling him “a good man” in 2015, saying that he “cares deeply about his country” and “he’s a man who tells it straight” — Cohen said, “At that time I was knee-deep into the cult of Donald Trump.”

Cohen denied that he was “obsessed” with Trump, as the defense has oft-alleged, instead saying he admired him.

Trump closed his eyes for long periods during his lawyer’s questioning, leaving spectators wondering if he was dozing off.

Blanche later asked Cohen if he had called him a “boorish cartoon misogynist” or a  “Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain,” which he agreed he likely did.

How Cohen turned on Trump

Cohen told the court that, in the months before his guilty plea in August 2021, he felt the need to stay loyal to Trump — but his family started urging him to step out of “the fold.”

“My wife, my daughter, my son, all said to me, ‘Why are you holding on to this loyalty? What are you doing? We’re supposed to be your first loyalty,” Cohen remembered.

“It was about time to listen to them,” Cohen said.

After this, on Aug. 21, 2018, he pleaded guilty to eight federal charges, including violating campaign finance laws, tax evasion, and bank fraud, before deciding that he “would not lie for President Trump any longer.”

The day after his August plea, Trump raged against him in a Twitter post: “If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!”

Cohen said he engaged in the “catch and kill” scheme to buy and bury Karen McDougal’s story at the behest of the then-president to smooth the path to the presidency for Trump.

He said that he regrets his work for Trump.

“I regret doing things for him that I should not have — lying, bullying people in order to effectuate a goal. I don’t regret working with the Trump Organization, ’cause, as I expressed before, some very interesting, great times. But, to keep the loyalty and to do things that he had asked me to do, I violated my moral compass. And I suffered the penalty. As has my family.”

‘Everything’s going to be OK’

After the FBI raided his residences in April 2018, Cohen said he felt frightened and “concerned, despondent, angry.” During search warrants executed on his Manhattan hotel room, apartment, and office, his phones and electronic devices were seized, along with other materials related to the hush money payment to Daniels, Cohen said.

He told the jury that the last time he communicated directly with Trump was on the phone just after the raids.

“He said to me, ‘Don’t worry, I am the president of the United States. There is nothing here. Everything is going to be OK. Stay tough. You are going to be OK,’” Cohen recalled, adding that others told him he was “loved” by Trump.

In the immediate aftermath, Cohen said he felt “reassured, because I had the president of the United States protecting me.”

Trump kept his eyes closed for much of Cohen’s testimony. Cohen sometimes exhaled audibly, once shaking his head, between questions. The jury also heard details of Cohen being a convicted perjurer — which Trump’s defense has repeatedly pointed to as proof of him being untrustworthy and is expected to hammer him about on cross-examination.

Cohen testified that he lied in 2017 about a Trump Tower real estate project in Moscow, telling Congress that he had only spoken to Trump about it three times, when they had really discussed it ten times.

“I was staying on Mr. Trump’s message that there was no ‘Russia, Russia, Russia,” Cohen replied.

Cohen says he spoke with Trump about hush money reimbursements at the White House

Cohen testified that he discussed the reimbursement payments with the then-president during a visit to the Oval Office on Feb. 8, 2017.

“So, I was sitting with President Trump and he asked me if I was OK, he asked me if I needed money,” Cohen recalled. In court, Trump scrunched his eyes tightly closed, frowning.

“He said, um, ‘Alright. Just make sure you deal with Allen,’” Cohen said, referring to the convicted ex-Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg.

Trump was joined in court with an entourage of around a dozen, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, and Eric Trump and his wife, Lara Trump.

Cohen told prosecutor Susan Hoffinger that he submitted falsified records at the behest of Trump’s longtime finance chief, billing for “services rendered” — not reimbursement for hush money he paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Displaying Cohen’s monthly invoices to the Trump Org, which he said were sent to Weisselberg and sometimes his deputy, former controller Jeff McConney, Hoffinger asked if any of them were for genuine legal services rendered.

“No, ma’am. They were for reimbursement,” Cohen said, a hint of sheepishness in his voice.

Cohen is soon expected to face a bruising cross-examination with the former president’s attorneys, who have sought to attack his credibility and told jurors he went rogue when he paid off Daniels.

During more than five hours in the witness box on Monday, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer described his former boss as a micromanager who knew about everything that went on at all levels of his company. He described himself as Trump’s loyal right-hand man — one who would bully, lie, and threaten to sue anyone who stood in the way of whatever it took “to make him happy” — and whose only job was to serve Trump. 

Cohen, 57, went to prison for the hush money payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels central to the case after pleading guilty to federal offenses in late 2018, cementing his bitter rivalry with the man he once said he’d take a bullet for. 

Trump, 77, is accused of repeatedly and fraudulently falsifying New York business records to disguise a hush-money scheme intended to hide damaging information from the voting public in 2016. Each of the 34 counts is tied to his alleged reimbursement to Cohen, which prosecutors say was falsely designated as payment for legal fees in a coverup. 

The presumptive GOP nominee in this year’s White House contest, whose courthouse entourage is growing by the day, walked into the courtroom around 9:25 a.m. flanked by an army of lawyers and the likes of right-wing biotech entrepreneur Ramaswamy, his conspiracy theory touting former competitor in the presidential race.

Catch up

Cohen said Trump had direct knowledge of a series of hush money payoffs to Daniels, former Playboy model Karen McDougal, and Trump Tower doorman Dino Sajudin to purchase their silence about a series of alleged sex scandals. He buttressed testimony by several witnesses who testified earlier in the trial, including former tabloid publisher David Pecker, who prosecutors allege was a part of the conspiracy that started in August 2015 to hide unflattering information about Trump from the electorate. 

“The two of you should work together. And anything negative that comes, you let Michael know, and we’ll handle it,” Cohen quoted Trump’s directive to Pecker. 

During his first day on the stand, Cohen testified that Trump was fully apprised of the payment to Daniels and promised to reimburse him. He told the court that the then-president-elect was present at a Trump Tower meeting in January 2017, where his Trump Org finance chief Allen Weisselberg said he’d receive his payback in the form of monthly checks purporting to be payment for his new role involving minor to no work as the president’s personal attorney.

“He approved it. And he also said: ‘This is going to be one heck of a ride in D.C.,’” Cohen said of Trump. 

Cohen wanted it in one lump sum, but “Mr. Trump said, No, it’s better, it’s better to do it over the 12 months,” the jury heard. 

The fixer said Weisselberg, who’s been convicted of tax fraud and perjury in the last two years, directed him to invoice the Trump Org monthly, marking that he was owed payment for legal services “and we will get you a check out.”

“And so, did you have any expectation that if you did work for him you would be paid?” prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked. 

“None at all,” Cohen said. 

Check back for updates from the courtroom. 

The “neighbor … saw the victim was bleeding profusely and asked what happened,” Assistant District Attorney Sean Flatow told Judge Marva Brown at Hernandez’s arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court.

“The victim responded, ‘She stabbed me,’ ” Flatow continued, adding that Santos told his neighbor, “I’m going to pass out,” before collapsing seconds later.

Hernandez, 44, is charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing of the 47-year-old Santos in his sixth-floor apartment on W. 147th St. near Frederick Douglass Blvd. in Harlem on Sunday. She was ordered held without bail following her arraignment.

Earlier Sunday, officers responded to Santos’ apartment for reports of yelling and fighting. Neighbors called police a second time, about 1:45 p.m., after hearing screams ring out from the unit, Flatow said.

Police arrived to find Santos with two stab wounds to his chest and one to his left arm, and medics rushed him to Harlem Hospital, where he died, according to the prosecutor.

The suspect met officers covered in blood and wearing only her panties and bra in the hallway outside Santos’ apartment, insisting throughout numerous interviews that the victim had stabbed himself.

When investigators confronted her with the neighbor’s account of Santos’ final moments, she amended her story, saying the victim had told her he would blame her for the attack while stabbing himself, Flatow said.

Flatow shared additional testimony from a downstairs neighbor who told police he’d overheard Hernandez whisper in Spanish to Santos, “Don’t tell anybody who stabbed you or they’ll take me to jail.”

Santos and Hernandez met in the city’s shelter system several years ago and lived together for about two years before his death, according to Flatow.

Hernandez — who appeared in court with a black eye — told investigators that her relationship with the victim was marred by domestic violence, the prosecutor said.

Flatow noted that prior to Sunday’s stabbing, the only incident on record was from several months ago, when Santos called 911 after his girlfriend threatened to leap from a window.

An attorney for Hernandez told the judge that in addition to her black eye, his client had bruises throughout her body and previously had requested that surveillance cameras be installed in the apartment to protect herself from his repeated acts of violence.

“She asked that those cameras be installed because of the decedent’s history of violence against her,” Wilfredo Santa Ana told Judge Brown. “We are hoping those cameras recorded what she says occurred inside that apartment.

“This may very well be a case where the prosecution ultimately decides to dismiss the charges once that video becomes available to the defense,” Santa Ana added.

Hernandez has been convicted in multiple assaults since moving to the States from Puerto Rico in 2009, including once for attacking two women at a shelter in Connecticut where she kicked a woman who was eight months pregnant in the stomach, according to Flatow.

When asked why she attacked the women, Hernandez told police, “They were b—–s,” the prosecutor said.

Jurors previously found Whitehead, 45, guilty of five counts including wire fraud, attempted extortion and lying to the FBI after he stole the life savings of his parishioner’s mother and perpetrated other schemes.

In court documents filed last week, prosecutors claimed Whitehead disparaged and threatened Pauline Anderson, the woman he conned $90,000 out of, and her son on social media, accusing the family of being FBI informants and having involvement in federal crimes.

Anderson was a single mother to one of Whitehead’s parishioners at Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries in Canarsie, Brooklyn. The “Bling Bishop” was convicted of targeting her along with a money lending company and Bronx businessman Brandon Belmonte.

Prosecutors also charged that Whitehead violated a restraining order when he showed off several sealed documents during a live stream on Patreon, constituting contempt.

The feds argued that Whitehead’s erratic behavior poses “a danger to the safety of another person or the community, and that he is unlikely to abide by any condition or combination of conditions of release,” the documents stated.

In a letter addressed to Manhattan Federal Judge Lorna Schofield, Whitehead pleaded to remain on bail until his sentencing, noting the disclosure of the protective order was an “honest mistake.”

“It would be devastating to take me away from my two 16-year-old children, my nine-year-old daughter and my two-year-old baby girl,” he wrote. “Even though I maintain my innocence, I feel like I let my family down.”

Whitehead is due back in court next Monday, when Schofield will determine if Whitehead will spend the days leading up to his sentencing behind bars.