The 38-year-old conductor was in her cab on the Manhattan-bound No. 4 train at the 167th St. station in Concourse when a man approached her around 11:50 a.m. and smashed her in the head with the bottle, police said.

The attacker took off, and the injured woman continued on with her job for two stops, until she spotted officers at the 149th St.-Grand Concourse station.

The conductor asked the cops for help, and they called her an ambulance. Medics took her to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.

There were no arrests as police worked to track down the man who struck her.

The attack came just days after conductor Alton Scott, 59, was slashed at the Rockaway Ave. station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on Thursday, according to police.

Scott was cut when he poked his head out of the conductor’s cab of the Far Rockaway-bound A train at around 3:30 a.m., cops said.

A doctor on the train applied pressure on the wound until medics arrived and rushed the injured man to Brookdale University Hospital, where he needed 34 stitches and nine sutures to close up the deep cut.

Police are still looking for that slasher.

Concerns about subway crime prompted Gov. Hochul on Wednesday to announce 750 members of the National Guard and 250 state and MTA police officers are heading to subway stations to inspect passengers’ bags.

Cops discovered the remains inside a sixth-floor apartment on Summit Ave. near W. 162nd St. in Highbridge about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. The person’s legs and feet were attached but its arms and head were missing, a police source said.

Around 1 a.m. Tuesday, neighbors heard gunshots but did not call police, investigators have learned. But neighbors later told their super what they heard, and he called 911.

“I have no idea why she didn’t call police when she heard gunshots,” said the superintendent, Orlando Medina. “I called in the wellness check the next morning about 11:30.”

Cops responded and were directed to the sixth-floor apartment, where they said a 30-year-old man let them in.

Once inside, officers found the torso in a blue bin. The night before, a man was seen on surveillance standing next to a container in a hallway outside the victim’s door.

“I went and I checked the video,” said building super Medina, 49. “I saw him on the video acting weird. He was coming in and out with all kinds of stuff. It wasn’t normal.”

A man is seen in several different outfits, including one with a long blond wig, as he moved through the hall, stills from the footage show. Police could not confirm what happened in the video, saying they didn’t have it.

“I was going to call the police regardless of the gunshots [because of what I saw on the video],” said Medina. “It’s nuts. You see someone alive one day and the next day he’s cut up into pieces.”

The man in the apartment was taken into custody for questioning. He asked for a lawyer and has clammed up, police sources said. No charges have been filed.

Cops have identified the victim as a 44-year-old man, who Medina says lived in the apartment. His name was not immediately released.

The man taken into custody did not live with the victim, according to Medina.

A person who lives in the building but did not want to be named claimed the victim was a high-end drug dealer.

“He had a lot of money and it was drugs,” the resident said. “I don’t know what kind of drugs, but it was big.”

An autopsy will be performed to determine how the victim died.

Gov. Hochul is deploying 750 members of the Guard and 250 state and MTA police officers to subway stations to inspect passengers’ bags following a spate of violent incidents across the system.

“No one heading to their job or to visit family or to go to a doctor’s appointment should worry that the person sitting next to them possesses a deadly weapon,” Hochul said Wednesday beside MTA Chairman Janno Lieber in front of a giant system map at the MTA’s Rail Control Center.

“They shouldn’t worry about whether someone’s going to brandish a knife or a gun.”

The random checks will fall well short of the body scans and pat downs of airport-level security. Straphangers are already familiar with how this will work — cops at tables performing random bag checks have appeared at subway turnstiles from time to time in the 22 years since the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Transit officials said the state support would simply allow for more such spot checks throughout the system, and that the National Guard, MTA police or other state law enforcement won’t be patrolling the trains.

The additional law enforcement power is one of a slate of state actions Hochul hopes will reduce crime underground — a “five-point plan [to] rid our subways of violent offenders and protect all commuters and transit workers,” as she put it.

“I am sending a message to all New Yorkers — I will not stop working to keep you safe and restore your peace of mind whenever you walk through those turnstiles,” she said

Besides the bag checks, the five initiatives include a $20 million plan to beef up the number of clinical teams responding to people in mental distress on subways from two to 10 systemwide.

Another of Hochul’s five initiatives is her support for the MTA’s plan to install surveillance cameras inside conductor and train-operator cabs. That initiative is a direct response to the slashing of MTA conductor Alton Scott, who narrowly survived a random assault last week when he stuck his head out of his cab as his train stopped at a Brooklyn subway station.

“If a camera had been positioned in Alton Scott’s conductor cabin last Thursday, we probably would have already apprehended the person who slashed his neck,” Hochul said.

“Today I’m directing the MTA to install cameras in every single conductor cabin, as well as [on] platforms that face the cabins,” she added.

No platform-mounted camera caught Scott’s attacker last week either.

MTA officials have stated that the station had multiple working surveillance cameras, but none were pointed at the conductor’s mid-platform position when Scott’s late-night A train pulled into the Rockaway Ave. station in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Transit brass declined to comment Wednesday on how many other stations might need upgrades to their camera coverage, citing security concerns.

Transport Workers Union Local 100 has long opposed putting cameras in conductor and operator cabs, citing privacy concerns. The MTA said last week it will install the cameras anyway.

A Local 100 spokesman said Wednesday that the union will support the installation so long as the cameras are solely for safety purposes, and are not used to support disciplinary cases against union members.

Hochul’s fourth initiative is proposed legislation to ban anyone convicted of an assault on transit from the system for three years. Currently the law allows a ban only on those who are convicted of assaulting a transit worker.

Her fifth initiative is improved coordination between MTA officials and district attorneys and police. That initiative will include regular meetings to discuss subway crime, the first of which is scheduled for next week.

As part of that fifth initiative, Hochul said, the MTA will hire a new “criminal justice advocate to assist the victims of crime in the system,” and develop a system to “flag recidivist offenders” to district attorneys.

NYPD brass and MTA leaders blame the uptick in crime on repeat offenders.

“One percent of subway arrestees, according to the NYPD, are responsible for well over 20% of the crime,” MTA boss Lieber said. “We need to have a collaboration with the [district attorneys] so they have that full information.”

The NYPD is fighting a 15.5% jump in felony assaults at city subway stops and trains.

Police have counted 97 such assaults in the subway system this year as of Sunday, 13 more than in the same period of 2023.

Misdemeanor assaults — slaps, punches and other relatively minor attacks — are down 3.9% for the year, with 249 misdemeanor assaults as of Sunday, 10 fewer than the 259 that had occurred by this time last year.

NYPD brass has said grand larcenies — property theft and pickpocketing — are the main thing pushing crime rates up in the subway system. Those crimes are up 17.8%, from 163 reported incidents last year to 192 this year.

There have been three homicides on the transit system so far this year, up from one this time last year.

The most recent was two weeks ago, when a man was fatally shot two weeks ago while on board a southbound B train in the Bronx.

On Tuesday, police arrested a man for allegedly stabbing a passenger onboard an uptown A train in what cops described as a hate crime.

Arrests in the system are up 45% over last year, according to police, with 3,261 arrests so far as of Sunday, up from 2,243 last year.

Earlier Wednesday, Mayor Adams — who did not join Hochul at her announcement — said NYPD officers will also be increasing bag checks in the subway system.

Neither the mayor nor transit officials would say at which stations the ramped-up bag checks will take place. An Adams administration spokesperson said there will be 94 NYPD bag screening teams deployed to 136 stations each week.

“They’re going to be a seven-day-a-week operation,” NYPD Transit Chief Michael Kemper said in a Wednesday morning appearance with Adams on CBS New York.

Adams said the checks will be “random” and that the Police Department won’t engage in any “profiling.”

“People who don’t want their bags checked can turn around and not enter the system,” he said.

The governor’s plan to put National Guard soldiers in the subway system was met with alarm from civil libertarians.

“This plan is whiplash inducing. The city only recently trumpeted safety data,” Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement.

“These heavy-handed approaches will, like stop-and-frisk, be used to accost and profile Black and Brown New Yorkers, ripping a page straight out of the Giuliani playbook,” she said, comparing Hochul to the former Republican mayor.

Albert Fox Cahn, head of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, expressed specific concern about the use of the National Guard.

“We shouldn’t militarize the MTA when crime rates are falling and budgets are contracting,” he said in a statement.

“I fear how many New Yorkers will be wrongly arrested or hurt before we recognize that soldiers have no place on the streets of democracy.”

As first reported by the Daily News on Monday, the city has only received $49 million of that money because federal authorities say the Adams administration isn’t filing the right paperwork to secure the rest. One Biden administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to be candid, even said Adams’ team hasn’t “stepped up to the plate” when it comes to putting the right application paperwork together for the remainder of the aid, which was allocated last year by Congress.

Asked why his administration’s struggling to furnish the right documentation, Adams sought Tuesday afternoon to flip the script back on the feds by noting the outstanding $107 million is small potatoes when compared with the $4 billion the city has spent so far on providing housing and services for migrants.

“Why don’t you go back to that person who stated we haven’t stepped to the plate, and say: ‘Have you guys stepped up to the plate and helping them with this $4 billion, securing the border, allowing people to have work authorization, make sure we have a decompression strategy?'” said Adams, who has for over a year lamented what he sees as a lack of migrant crisis help from the Biden administration. “Ask them: Have they stepped up to the plate? New Yorkers have stepped up to the plate.”

To offset migrant spending, Adams has in recent months enacted steep city budget cuts. The cuts have resulted in various service reductions, including the elimination of Sunday hours at all public libraries.

After the mayor’s briefing, a White House official told The News that the Biden administration wants to provide New York City with more financial help to alleviate the migrant-related fiscal burden, noting it supported the creation of a new $1.4 billion fund that’d reimburse cities across the U.S. for migrant costs. However, House Republicans have blocked that allocation.

“Of course, we would love to do more,” the White House official said.

Jacques Jiha, Adams’ budget director, first revealed during a Council hearing Monday that the city has only received $49 million in migrant aid from the feds to date. In his testimony, Jiha said the city hasn’t been able to access the rest of the aid due to “stringent” eligibility requirements that make it “very difficult” to apply.

Neither Adams nor multiple top advisers who joined him for Tuesday’s briefing at City Hall would provide more details on what specifically in the requirements are tripping up their application.

“We’ll look into it and circle back to you,” Fabien Levy, Adams’ deputy mayor for communications, said when asked for specifics.

Sheena Wright, Adams’ first deputy mayor, suggested a finger should ultimately be pointed at the feds, not the mayor’s team.

“We know how to submit paperwork,” she said. “So I think the question is for them: Why haven’t these funds been released?”

Among other requirements, municipalities applying for the aid must provide names, dates of birth and so-called alien registration numbers for migrants who stand to benefit from the financial support, according to guidance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The FEMA guidance also says spending on hotels cannot exceed 5% of the total amount of aid requested by any given municipality, a wrinkle that could pose a problem for the city, which is housing thousands of new arrivals in hotels.

According to Biden administration officials, FEMA dispatched a team to New York last week to help Adams’ office with resolving aid application snags.

However, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Adams’ chief adviser, claimed it’s “not true” a FEMA team came to New York when asked about the matter during Tuesday’s briefing.

“Why don’t they come and say, ‘Listen, this is what you need to provide,'” Lewis-Martin said. “If we give people paperwork to fill out and they cannot get it done, please assist them.”

Asked about Lewis-Martin’s comments, the White House official reiterated that the FEMA team was in New York last week and provided on-the-ground application support. The official said the administration would contact Lewis-Martin about the matter.

A City Hall spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment on whether Lewis-Martin misspoke.

The latest clash between the mayor’s team and the Biden administration comes as more than 60,000 migrants remain housed in city shelters. Though he says he still supports Biden’s reelection bid, the mayor has been vocally frustrated for months with what he sees as a lack of migrant crisis help from the Democratic president, including declaring last year the commander-in-chief had “failed” New York City.

The outstanding federal migrant aid issue came up during a budget hearing held in the City Council on Tuesday, when Manuel Castro, Adams’ Immigration Affairs commissioner, testified that the city is banking on receiving the full $156 million from the feds this year.

Castro’s comment prompted Brooklyn Councilwoman Alexa Aviles, a progressive Democrat, to note that the city has received less than a third of the outlay so far.

“There are some operational issues to address there,” she said.

The woman, whose name is being withheld by The News, filed a so-called “notice of claim” in Manhattan Supreme Court in November saying she intended to sue the mayor for $5 million over allegations that he subjected her to “sexual assault, battery and employment discrimination” while they both worked for the city Transit Police Department in 1993.

Since that brief filing, the woman and her attorney have declined to provide more details about her accusations. Adams, meantime, has vehemently denied the accusations, and his attorneys said as recently as a few weeks ago that he had yet to be served with her claim, a formality required to kick off any court proceeding.

However, on Tuesday afternoon, Sylvia Hinds-Radix, Adams’ corporation counsel who leads the city Law Department, filed papers in Manhattan Supreme Court demanding that the woman provide “the complaint in this action” within 20 days.

The filing from Hinds-Radix indicates the initial claim has finally been served, as the Law Department otherwise wouldn’t be able to demand a full complaint.

Megan Goddard, the woman’s attorney, did not return a request for comment Tuesday, and neither did a spokesman for the mayor. A Law Department spokesman declined to comment.

In addition to Adams, the woman named the NYPD and the Guardians Association as defendants in her initial claim. The Guardians is a Black police officers’ fraternal organization that the mayor used to head in the 1990s.

Adams confirmed in November that he expected the Law Department to represent him in any case brought by the complainant.

The woman filed her claim under the Adult Survivors Act, a state law that opened a one-year window in 2022 for victims of sexual misconduct to sue their assailants even if the statute of limitations on the claim had expired. Adams’ accuser filed her notice of claim on Nov. 22, 2023, one day before the one-year window closed.

“If financial conditions improve and the economy remains strong, we will work with the Council, as we always do, to look at priorities of the Council and the administration and then see what can be fully or partially restored,” Jacques Jiha, who heads Adams’ Office of Management and Budget, said during an hourslong Council hearing.

Jiha made that comment after Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Queens) specifically asked him about undoing a $24 million cut that the mayor subjected the city’s three public library systems to in November that forced them to eliminate Sunday hours at all their branches.

Jiha declined to make any specific commitments, though.

“I cannot commit at this point in time that we are going to restore X, Y and Z,” the budget director testified.

The hearing, held to examine the mayor’s $109.4 billion preliminary budget proposal released in January, marked the official starting point of months of negotiations between the mayor’s office and the Council before they must come to an agreement on a city financial plan before the July 1 start of the 2025 fiscal year. In coming weeks, heads from nearly all city agencies will appear before the Council to testify about their budgetary needs.

Ahead of Monday’s hearing, the Council released a new revenue projection, first reported by the Daily News, that projects the city to be on track to rake in $3.3 billion more in income, property, sales and business taxes over the 2024 and 2025 fiscal years than what’s predicted by Jiha’s office.

Council Democrats repeatedly argued in the hearing that their rosier revenue projections should allow the mayor to undo many of the budget cuts he pushed through in November and January on the auspice that the city needed to offset migrant crisis spending and accommodate Jiha’s lower tax revenue forecast.

“With higher than expected revenues in this fiscal year and a durable, resilient economy, I believe our city has the flexibility to reverse many cuts that have been made,” Speaker Adams said at Monday’s hearing.

Jiha did not say he’s ready to accept the Council’s new revenue estimate. He did tell Council members he’s “hoping that your forecast is right,” though.

Brooklyn Councilman Justin Brannan, a Democrat who is chairman of the Finance Committee, suggested after the hearing that he was optimistic.

“If both sides of City Hall can walk into the room with the same shared set of objective data, we will be fine,” Brannan said when asked if he’s hopeful about getting some of Mayor Adams’ cuts reversed. “Hardworking New Yorkers deserve nothing less.”

The mayor already undid some budget cuts in January, including at the NYPD, the FDNY and the Sanitation Department. He said he was able to do so because he had ordered his administration to drastically reduce the amount of money being spent on housing and services for newly arrived migrants.

In Monday’s hearing, Jiha said a key element of managing migrant spending is driving down the number of migrants in city shelters. The administration’s primary vehicle for reducing the census is its controversial 30- and 60-day policies, which limit how long migrants, including families with children, can stay consecutively in shelters.

“If we don’t bring down the population, I don’t know how we’re going to sustain this in the long run,” Jiha told Council members.

Jacques Jiha, the director of Adams’ Office of Management and Budget, disclosed the paltry amount the city has received so far during a marathon City Council hearing on Monday.

Asked why the city hasn’t received the full $156 million it was allocated, Jiha told Council members: “The [application] requirements are so stringent … but we’re working on it. We’re trying to collect the remaining $107 million.”

An official in President Biden’s administration told the Daily News later Monday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has for months provided the mayor’s team with “extensive technical assistance” to help the city access the full aid allocation. The official said that included dispatching a FEMA team to the city just last week to help walk Adams administration officials through the application process.

“Unfortunately, they have not stepped up to the plate,” said the Biden administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to be candid. “There really isn’t a federal government problem here. They just haven’t submitted the documentation to unlock the funds.”

Asked about the Biden official’s comments, an Adams spokeswoman said the mayor’s administration hasn’t missed any deadlines and is working with federal stakeholders on expediting the release of the remainder of the available funds.

The $156 million set aside for the city is part of an $800 million program administered by FEMA.

The program, established as part of budget negotiations in Congress last year, is designed to help alleviate costs incurred by municipalities across the U.S. that are seeing large influxes of mostly Latin American migrants.

The Biden administration official said multiple other U.S. cities have managed to unlock the full amount of their migrant aid allocations, including Chicago, which received about $32 million.

The FEMA initiative is based on a reimbursement model, meaning municipalities can apply to get costs covered after they’re incurred. Expenses eligible for reimbursement under the program include costs related to providing shelter, food, transportation, health care and other supportive services for newly arrived migrants, according to FEMA.

Ultimately, the FEMA cash is a drop in the bucket as compared to the total amount of money spent by New York City on the migrant crisis. As of the end of last month, the Adams administration has shelled out “just over $4 billion” on housing, feeding and providing services for the tens of thousands of migrants who remain in the city’s care, Jiha said.

Since migrants first started arriving in waves in spring 2022, the mayor has lamented what he sees as a lack of financial relief from the feds.

He has drawn the ire of some fellow Democrats for publicly saying Biden isn’t doing enough to help, including declaring last year that the president had “failed” the city. The mayor has also argued Republicans in Congress share blame for blocking long-sought immigration reforms.

When asked at Monday’s Council hearing whether Gov. Hochul is doing enough to help the mayor’s administration, Jiha deadpanned: “No.”

“We should be getting at a minimum a 50-50 share,” he added, referring to the mayor’s request for the governor’s administration to pick up half of the city’s migrant crisis tab.

Hochul’s executive budget unveiled last month set aside about $2.4 billion in state migrant aid for the city over the coming fiscal year, a proposal that falls short of the mayor’s 50%-50% demand.

“The justice system does not seem to work,” DeJesus, 49, told the Daily News. “These past few years our family has been through so much pain.”

Deshaun Coleman gunned down DeJesus’ son in 2012 but was ultimately convicted only of weapon possession. Coleman’s lawyers convinced a jury the suspect was defending himself when he shot Victor Maldonado on a Bronx street and so he beat murder and manslaughter charges.

Coleman, now 46 and back on the street for a little over a year, was arrested last month and charged with shooting to death a longtime friend of DeJesus’ daughter just two blocks from where her son was slain.

Coleman had been released on parole in DeJesus’ son’s case in January 2023.

“When somebody says, ‘Oh, my name is Deshaun,’ or even with the last name Coleman, it just drives me nuts,” DeJesus said.

Cops nabbed Coleman six days after Hasan Richburg, 26, was gunned down Feb. 8

“He killed that other young man and got away with it,” Richburg’s brother, Harry James Richburg, 45, told the Daily News. “People in the neighborhood was scared of him because of that.”

Last month’s slaying rocked DeJesus’ family too. DeJesus’ daughter was longtime friends with the new victim.

“They grew up together,” DeJesus said. “She said, ‘Oh Mom, you know a friend of mine was killed right there in Kingsbridge. And he had daughters, he had a family.’”

Then came news of the arrest.

“When I told my daughter, she’s like, “Oh my God, it’s the same guy,'” DeJesus said. “And that’s when it hit us.”

DeJesus’ 19-year-old son was a week away from taking his physical to enlist in the Navy when he was shot in the torso on Heath Ave. near W. Kingsbridge Road on Oct. 1, 2012.

DeJesus told reporters at the time she couldn’t understand how ex-con Coleman was free given his lengthy criminal history. “He should’ve never been able to be on the street,” she told a DNAinfo reporter the week of her son’s death.

Coleman had 19 previous arrests before Richburg’s death on charges including robbery and possession of a controlled substance, police said. He went to prison in 2007 for a Bronx robbery conviction and was released three-and-a-half years later.

He was sentenced to up to 12 years in prison for weapon possession in Maldonado’s death. DeJesus says if Coleman had been convicted of murder in her son’s death her daughter’s friend would be alive today.

Maldonado, who planned on enlisting in the Navy after his sister’s upcoming birthday, got embroiled in an argument two girls were having and tried to act as a peacemaker, his family said.

The girls were quarreling because Coleman’s sister had walked into a building on Heath Ave. and failed to say thank you to the other girl, who had been holding the door for her. During the clash Coleman’s sister called her brother, according to court records.

Coleman claimed to cops his sister was being blocked from entering the building and that during a scuffle he took the weapon from Maldonado and then it “just went off.”

“I grabbed his belt loop and realized he had a gun.” Coleman told authorities, according to court documents.

“I reached for it and took it away from him. Then I shot at him. I wasn’t aiming at him. It just went off. Yeah I shot the gun after he had let go. I don’t know what happened to the kid. I went over to the other guy still holding the gun and said, “Is it over now?” Then I went in the apartment. I never called 911.”

But his own sister told authorities Coleman had arrived with the gun and she had pleaded with him not to shoot Maldonado.

“They started arguing. And that’s when I got in the middle because he got this gun and I was like stop!,” Theresa Coleman told investigators, according to court papers. “I didn’t want none of this to happen.”

Javier Solano, Coleman’s lawyer at the time, said he feels bad for Maldonado’s mother but believes the jury got it right.

“Ultimately, the jury believed us and came to the conclusion that prosecutors could not disprove self defense,” Solano said. “That was his defense all along. He was just thankful that the jury felt the same way.”

DeJesus still isn’t buying it.

“Without fail for the past 11 years we go every year to the spot where it happened,” she said. “We light candles every single year. Whether it’s rain, whether it’s cold, it doesn’t matter.”

Now the Richburg family is feeling a similar agony.

“My son is taking it really hard because Hasan is the one who taught him how to swim,” said RIchburg’s sister Madalene Richburg, 34. “(Hasan) was very chill, calm. Quiet but silly. Always making jokes.”

A neighbor said Richburg was one of three brothers who were raised by an aunt after both of their parents died.

“I have a lot of empathy for them,” the neighbor, who gave his name only as Manuel, said.  “I feel bad for them. I want to cry.”

He described Richburg as a “tall handsome man” who “didn’t know his potential.”

Richburg was released on parole from prison in 2019, records show, after serving two years on Bronx convictions for weapon and drug possession along with criminal mischief.

“This kid that came out, he was trying to get his life straight,” said Manuel. “I can tell you that.”

Richburg was currently working as a lab technician and had six kids.

At Richburg’s funeral service at Riverdale Funeral Home in Manhattan on Feb. 25, Harry James Richburg said his brother was targeted by Coleman.

“Word on the street is that some girl that (Coleman) was dating, she was attracted to my brother,” he said, adding that the shooting was motivated by “jealousy” and “animosity.”

RIchburg was shot multiple times in the torso in an apartment building on W. Kingsbridge Road near Webb Ave. He managed to make it part way down the block and was found outside Kennedy Fried Chicken & Pizza, about three blocks from his home. He died at St. Barnabas Hospital.

Ring doorbell video of the slaying seen by the Daily News shows Hasan Richburg sitting on steps inside the building as the sound of a gun cocks. A moment later the killer emerges, aiming a gun at Richburg and ordering him to his feet. Richburg raises his arms briefly before fleeing off camera and the gunman fires off several shots before turning and heading back up the steps.

Richburg’s cousin remembered him as caring, particularly when it came to children.

“Years ago our family got into a really bad bus accident,” the 42-year-old cousin, who gave her name as Candy, recalled. “We were leaving a family picnic…He jumped right in to get all of the children off the bus. He jumped right into action. He was throwing children out the window. He was able to get all the kids off the bus.”

DeJesus’ daughter, Nayiliana, went to high school with Richburg at Public School 310, about a block from the scenes of both slayings.

“I grew up in the same neighborhood,” Nayiliana, 27, said. “I moved away from the neighborhood after my brother got shot … But we all used to hang out. We all knew each other all those years.”

She said Richburg had a good sense of humor despite a difficult childhood.

“He was always a funny kid,” she said. “My brother knew him too. He never had issues. He tried to survive on his own. His mother died first and then his father died. He basically was a kid surviving.”

DeJesus remembers the anguish of burying a son who was gunned down on the street and hates to see another family go through that.

“My son will never come back and neither will the other young man,” DeJesus said. “But to prevent any more deaths they need to keep him in jail for life.”

Coleman is being held without bail on Rikers Island. He is due back in Bronx Criminal Court on the new murder charges March 14.

The new Council projection, which was obtained exclusively by the Daily News, predicts the city will receive $3.3 billion more in income, business, sales and property taxes over the 2024 and 2025 fiscal years as compared to what the mayor’s Office of Budget and Management projected in its most recent forecast. The latest OMB forecast, released in January, came after  Adams enacted sweeping budget cuts last year at all city agencies justified by previous — and much lower — revenue projections.

The Council’s new, even rosier revenue projections sharpen Council Democrats’ arguments that many of the mayor’s cuts were never necessary — a charge they’re certain to put front and center as budget hearings kick off in the chamber Monday.

“I wouldn’t say happy days are here again just yet, but from 3K to CUNY to our cultural sector, thanks to a resilient and durable economy, we’ve got plenty to restore all the blunt cuts that had a disproportionately negative impact on vital programs and were never necessary in the first place,” Council Finance Chairman Justin Brannan said. “I hate the term cautiously optimistic, but if the shoe fits.”

Adams has said that prior forecasts from his team were based on sky-high migrant crisis costs and the administration’s practice of making more conservative estimates based on the fact that it is legally mandated to balance the city’s budget.

“The Council projections can be more liberal. We have to make sure that we have enough money to pay the bills to keep the lights on,” Adams said at a news conference in January.

Jacques Jiha, Adams’ OMB director responsible for the administration’s tax revenue assessments, explained a few days after the January briefing that the city’s forecasts also factored in the U.S. economy, where he notes “almost most economists were predicting a hard landing of the economy.”

“This is because interest rates were rising. We had 11 consecutive increases in interest rates. So, economists were projecting a recession more or less,” Jiha said. “So, the key here is we had anticipated a recession last year, like most economists, and instead we had a soft landing, okay, we’re still landing, okay, but it’s not a crash, okay?”

Jiha will be the first to testify as part of the Council’s 2025 fiscal year budget hearings Monday. Heads from nearly all city agencies will then offer testimony in the coming days and weeks before the mayor and the Council must come to an agreement on a budget before the July 1 start of the 2025 fiscal year.

Brannan and several other Democratic members of the city’s lawmaking body said in recent interviews that priorities for this year’s budget hearings include rolling back cuts Adams made to the city’s early childhood education 3K program, city libraries and public colleges.

And the Council is feeling emboldened, given the administration’s earlier lowballed revenue projections, two successful efforts to override vetoes from the mayor and a federal investigation Adams’ campaign is facing into his ties with Turkey.

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams affirmed last week that a primary focus for her going into budget negotiations will be reversing cuts enacted by the mayor in November and January that, among other service reductions, forced the city’s public library systems to eliminate Sunday hours at all their branches. She also said she’s deeply concerned about under-staffing at the city’s Human Resources Administration, which has resulted in most applications for food stamps and cash benefits not being processed within a legally required timeframe.

“We are going back to the table, we are going back to prioritizing those things that should have never been taken away from New Yorkers in the first place,” the speaker said in response to a question from The News during a press conference last week at City Hall.

“We are going to take a look at everything,” she added, speaking broadly about the cuts enacted last year as part of the mayor’s November and January cost-cutting Programs to Eliminate the Gap, or PEGs.

PEGs have been the primary mechanism by which the mayor has enacted budget cuts over the past two years. He has argued the cuts are needed to offset the hundreds of millions the city’s spending every month to care for thousands of newly-arrived migrants, most of them from Latin America.

The new Council forecast suggests there is enough money to both care for migrants and keep city agency budgets intact, though.

In addition to foreseeing $3.3 billion more in revenues over the 2024 and 2025 fiscal years, the new Council forecast says the city’s on track to rake in far more money in taxes than acknowledged by the mayor’s office in the long run.

Through July 1, 2028, the Council’s fiscal prediction says the city will take in $13.8 billion more than what the mayor’s team predicted. In total, the mayor’s November and January PEGs slashed about $7 billion in city government spending over that time span, according to City Hall budget documents.

But other Council members predicted that despite the leverage they now have going into the budget hearings, they expect the mayor to dig in after the Council recently overrode two of his vetoes of public safety bills, a move that’s resulting in bad blood behind the scenes. If that happens and there’s a deadlock in negotiations, the Council could vote down the mayor’s 2025 fiscal year budget in June, a drastic measure that would likely have political ramifications for both sides.

The foremost bit of leverage the Council is expected to rely upon are the mayor’s revenue projections, which have consistently fallen below not only those of the Council, but of the city’s Independent Budget Office as well. In a report put out last month, that entity estimated revenue of $2.8 billion more than the projection from Team Adams.

Nathan Gusdorf, director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, noted that it isn’t unique for the mayor’s projections to be lower than the Council’s, but said what’s qualitatively different is for a mayor to make such deep cuts so early in the process.

“The administration’s decision to implement preemptive and unnecessary cuts has weakened the city’s ability to deliver core services and may hurt New York’s long-term economic health,” he said. “Given the city’s recent practice of severely underestimating city revenue, the hearings will likely scrutinize the administration’s approach to fiscal management and its choice to needlessly cut critical public services.”

Since announcing his latest round of cuts in January, Adams has slightly changed course. Last month, he announced the cancellation of another round of spending cuts initially planned for April, saying he didn’t need to move forward with those due to “better-than-anticipated” tax revenues and separate cuts to spending on migrants.

“Our tough but necessary fiscal management decisions, including achieving a record level of savings and reducing asylum seeker costs, and revenue from better-than-expected economic performance in 2023, closed the $10 billion budget gap, allowing us to meet our legal obligation to balance the budget,” Liz Garcia, a spokeswoman for the mayor, said.

While the revenue projections are likely to be the most potent advantage the Council has, it isn’t the only one.

Adams has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection to the federal probe into his ties with Turkey, but the FBI seized his electronic devices in public last year and has raided the homes of three people tied to his administration and political operation. A probe into Adams’ former Buildings Commissioner Eric Ulrich resulted in several indictments and is ongoing as well.

Those headaches for the mayor are unlikely to be raised publicly in budget negotiations, but Council members are certainly aware of them and view them as another, if not more subtle point of leverage.

“The mayor is weak on every point,” said one Council member, who also spoke anonymously and was once aligned with the mayor. “You have the criminal investigations, but he still just likes to project this aura of confidence — that he’s untouchable. It’s certainly on the minds of Council members.”

The medical episode was serious enough that the feds called an ambulance that took Greco to a local hospital, the official, who insisted on speaking only on the condition of anonymity, said Friday. The official declined to characterize the medical episode or say whether Greco’s still in the hospital, but confirmed she went on paid sick leave after the raid.

A source briefed on the matter told the Daily News that Greco was complaining of back pain before the ambulance arrived.

The FDNY confirmed it received a call for medical assistance at Greco’s home at 6:53 a.m. Thursday — right around the time neighbors said the raid started. A person was then taken by ambulance from the house to nearby Montefiore Hospital, according to the FDNY, which would not confirm details about the individual’s name or condition.

Greco has not returned calls and texts this week.

City Hall initially declined to say Thursday whether Greco’s leave was paid. On Friday, the City Hall official said she’s not performing any city government duties for the time being and that she’ll have to go on unpaid leave after her medical absence is over, unless she has vacation time accrued.

Adams first revealed in a blitz of TV and radio news appearances earlier Friday that Greco is on “sick leave” that he described as being unrelated “at this time” to the FBI search at her home. He also said he continues to have full confidence in Greco despite the FBI activity and didn’t rule out letting her return to work.

“We will do an evaluation based on information that comes in,” he said when asked if Greco can eventually come back to City Hall, where she receives a $100,000 salary as the mayor’s Asian Affairs director.

Around dawn Thursday, the feds raided Greco’s primary residence on Gillespie Ave. in Pelham Bay as well as a second home she owns on the same street. Additionally, the feds raided the offices of New World Mall in Queens, where Greco helped host a number of fundraisers for Adams’ 2021 campaign, some of which have drawn legal concern from city regulators.

The focus of the federal investigation that prompted the Greco raids remains unknown. The searches come after Greco became the subject of a city Department of Investigation probe last year after the news outlet The City reported she made a volunteer for Adams’ 2021 campaign renovate her Bronx home for free before continuing to demand he perform work at her residence upon him getting a job in the Adams administration.

On top of the scrutinized fundraisers at New World Mall, Greco reportedly also pressed a businessman for a $10,000 donation to a nonprofit she founded in exchange for admission to a government event hosted by Adams at Gracie Mansion.

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, which is leading the investigation into Greco, declined to comment Friday.

Greco, who has ties to local Chinese interest groups that receive funding from Beijing’s Communist government, started working for Adams while he was Brooklyn borough president. She was also a prolific fundraiser for Adams’ successful 2021 run.

Greco’s the third Adams adviser to be raided by the FBI in the past few months.

In November, the feds raided the homes of Brianna Suggs, a top fundraiser for Adams, and City Hall aide Rana Abbasova as part of an investigation into whether the Turkish government funneled illegal foreign money into the mayor’s 2021 campaign. A few days after those raids, FBI agents stopped Adams in the street and seized his electronics, including his cellphones, as part of the same probe. Abbasova was suspended without pay while Suggs was reassigned to a different position in the campaign.

The Turkey probe is led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and believed to be separate from the Greco investigation.

Adams, who has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection with either probe, said on PIX11 he has not been contacted by the feds about Greco and sought to downplay the significance of the raid at her homes.

“Whenever there’s an inquiry, that review must be done and that’s the process,” he said. “I tell everyone to follow the law.”

Asked whether he should have done better vetting of his City Hall hires, given the recent flurry of law enforcement activity, Adams demurred. “We did a great job of vetting,” he said on 1010WINS.

Beyond the federal inquiries, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg last year indicted a group of Adams supporters, including a retired NYPD inspector friendly with the mayor, on charges they orchestrated a sweeping straw donor scheme to boost the mayor’s 2021 campaign. The NYPD inspector, Dwayne Montgomery, who has been described as the mastermind of that scheme, pleaded guilty to his role in the straw donor effort earlier this month.

Last summer, Bragg also indicted Eric Ulrich, Adams’ first Buildings Department commissioner, on bribery charges. Ulrich has pleaded not guilty.

With Thomas Tracy