BROKEN BONES
An employee at Nobu on Hudson St. landed in the hospital with a broken jaw this week, after an argument with a customer at the pricey eatery turned violent, according to police.
The 48-year-old worker told police that he got into a fight with the 27-year-old diner at 5 p.m. on Monday Apr. 4, and was punched in the face repeatedly by his attacker.
He was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a fractured jaw and underwent surgery, according to a police report, which noted that he would have to eat through a straw for the next few weeks.
SUBWAY SLASHING
A 63-year-old Long Island man was slashed in the face inside a Downtown subway station last week, after he told a robber that he didn’t have any money, police say.
The man told police that he was on his way to work around 4:30 a.m. on Friday Apr. 1, when a man came up behind him inside the A-train Chambers St. stop and demanded money, according to police.
When the victim told him he didn’t have any cash on him, the robber pulled out a blade and cut the man on the right side of his face, police say.
The victim was treated at his workplace on Vesey St. and refused further medical attention, according to a report.
CULINARY CRIME
Thieves with a taste for Apple — the brand, not the food — broke into a Tribeca restaurant last weekend to raid a cash safe and steal thousands of dollars worth of electronics, police say.
An employee at Estancia 460, an Argentinian bistro on Greenwich St., told police that she arrived at work on the morning of Sunday Apr. 3, to find a kitchen window ajar and a cash register pried open.
In addition to $1,586 in cash taken from the register and a lock box, the burglars bagged a $1,500 Macbook, a $500 iPad and a $200 iPod, according to police.
Surveillance footage from the restaurant puts the time of the break-in at 1:45 a.m. that morning, cops say.
BAR FIGHT
Two club promoters got into a hands-on argument inside a Tribeca nightclub on Saturday, according to police.
One of the two — known by the moniker Ar_List, according to a police report — allegedly punched his colleague in the face, causing a cut above his right eye, as the 26-year-old victim from Queens was talking to a woman inside the Haus NYC club on West Broadway at 4 a.m. on Apr. 2.
Rather than hit back, the victim headed outside to alert a bouncer, but was hit again from behind — which finally caused him to lose his cool and put his attacker in a headlock, police say.
The other promoter then allegedly bit the victim in the stomach and also swiped a $500 Luis Vuitton bracelet from the man’s wrist before bolting, according to a police report, which notes that the accused attacker was arrested later that day.
cell phone to jail cell
A Queens man tried to rape a woman at a luxury hotel in Battery Park City two weeks ago, but was arrested after returning to the scene of the crime to grab his cellphone, police say.
The 31-year-old tried to force himself on a 20-year-old acquaintance at the Conrad New York Hotel on North End Ave. around 6:40 a.m. on Sunday Mar. 27, but was fought off by the woman’s female friend, according to police.
After a struggle, which left one of the women with minor injuries, the fiend fled from the hotel, but later that morning returned to retrieve his phone — only to encounter the women along with a group of cops, who promptly arrested him, according to reports.
He was charged with attempted rape, attempted grand larceny — for trying to steal cash and one of the women’s phones — attempted unlawful imprisonment, assault and criminal mischief, according to police.
The New York Post reported that the three knew each other and had been out partying before crashing at the hotel.
EARLY-MORNING HOLDUP
Three perps robbed a woman in Tribeca in the wee hours of Saturday Mar. 26, police say.
The 29-year-old victim from Queens told police that the men surrounded her in front of Sophie’s Restaurant, a Cuban eatery on Chambers St., as she was walking by shortly after 1 a.m.
When one of them demanded “Let me see what you got,” she pulled out her wallet and the muggers fled with $110 in cash, according to police.
-— Yannic Rack
