Green theft auto

Three thugs carjacked a cabbie on Sept. 25 and took his yellow taxi for a 25-block joy ride.

The 42-year-old driver picked up two of the crooks on Manhattan Avenue at around 10:30 pm and drove them to the corner Jackson Street and Kingsland Avenue.

That’s where a third hoodlum emerged, and the three men pummeled the cabbie, who fled his vehicle as the crooks drove off in his taxi and got his $75.

Soccer hooligans

Poor sports made losers out of at least two McCarren Park soccer players this week. Here are the details:

• A futbol felon snatched a soccer player’s black leather wallet — which contained credit cards and $900 — on Sept. 21 from the sidelines near Driggs and Union avenues while the victim was on the field between 9:10 am and 9:50 am.

• While another soccer player was playing a week later, crooks stole his wallet, keys — and his car!

The hoodlums grabbed the goods between 9 am and 9:45 am, and drove off with the victim’s gray Mazda sedan.

Hipster heist

A felonious fashionista slugged a store clerk in the eye after grabbing a handful of hipster garments on Sept. 23.

The cotton-craving crook entered the shop on North Sixth Street near Berry Street at around 8:30 pm and snatched seven articles of clothing — valued at $134 — but when a 21-year-old employee tried to intervene, the goon punched him in the eye and fled from the shop.

Sneaky sneaks

Crooks stole 14 pairs of Nike sneakers from a van parked on Green Street early on Sept. 26.

The thieves broke into the truck, which was between Franklin Street and Manhattan Avenue, through the passenger’s-side window between midnight and 5 am and grabbed the Swooshes, as well as a box of socks, three boxes of shirts, the van’s stereo and a Nintendo Wii system.

Tooling around

Thieves in Greenpoint are hard at work, and they’re targeting power tools. Here are the details, piece by piece:

• Burglars stole $5,000 of construction equipment from an SUV parked at Meserole and Leonard streets overnight on Sept. 21, snatching a generator, a circular saw, two drills and a screw gun.

• Crooks pilfered a white van parked at Driggs Avenue and North 11th Street on Sept. 25, shattering the passenger’s-side window between 8 am and 6:30 pm and grabbing a Makita Drill set, a computer, hand tools, and electrical gadgets.

— Ben Muessig

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