Rocco Parascandola

Cops nabbed Sebastian Mendez Thursday night — hours before his 28th birthday — on the mezzanine level of the Parsons Blvd. station for allegedly covering at least 17 subway security cameras with black tape along the Queens Boulevard Line in Jamaica.

Before Det. Jonathan Diller was fatally shot in the line of duty late last month, his beat was patrolling the streets of eastern Queens with the NYPD's Community Response Team.

University President Minouche Shafik said the goal is to “deescalate the rancor and give us all a chance to consider next steps.”

A 32-year-old man was stabbed and wounded on a Brooklyn street by a complete stranger who fled on a bicycle, police said Monday.

“If you scream, I'll shoot you,” the attacker told her when he encountered the 23-year-old victim on the second floor of her apartment building about 4:10 a.m. Sunday, cops said.

A man was found dead in the basement of an upscale Lower East Side hotel with stab wounds believed to be self-inflicted, police said.

The 15-year-old suspect was arrested Sunday and charged with murder, attempted murder and gun possession.

The 65-year-old victim was sitting reading a book in the Greyhound area of the busy Midtown station when he was stabbed multiple times in the neck and arm about 5:40 a.m., police said.

NEW YORK — Columbia University, on edge amid growing concern about safety and antisemitic rhetoric on a campus rocked by protests and encampments, made all classes remote Monday, the first night of Passover. University President Minouche Shafik announced overnight that the goal is to “deescalate the rancor and give us all a chance to consider next steps.” “Faculty and staff who can work ...

NEW YORK — A third teen gunman has been busted in connection with the Bronx subway gang shooting that killed an innocent bystander and wounded five people, police said Monday.