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It was bound to happen, but police records indicate that a Union Street resident has the distinction of being the first victim of an iPhone robbery in Park Slope.

The 31-year-old told cops that she was walking home from the subway on Nov. 5 at around 7 pm when she was approached by two perps, one of whom slipped his hand into her jacket and removed the fancy phone.

She didn’t get a good look at either thief.

The crime is the first recorded theft of an iPhone in the 78th Precinct, according to police records.

Bus bumping

Two women had their wallets stolen on Nov. 5 in the oldest trick in the transit playbook: the bump and rob.

In the first case, a 54-year-old woman riding on the B63 at around noon told cops that her wallet was picked out of her bag. She lost $67 and the wallet, but canceled the credit cards.

Six hours later, a 60-year-old woman felt a bump against her while she was riding the B41 bus. When she got off the bus, she realized her wallet — and the $300, credit cards and bank check for $500 — was gone.

Later, she discovered that a thief had made a $1 purchase on her credit card.

Car stuff

At least one car was stolen and another broken into on Park Slope streets this week.

The theft occurred on Nov. 8 at around 11:30 am, after a 41-year-old man parked his 1994 Honda Civic — a popular model among thieves, believe it or not — on 10th Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues.

When he returned the next afternoon, the car was gone. Police asked the neighbors, and one told cops that she had seen four men casing the vehicle with flashlights.

The break-in took place on Nov. 4, sometime after 5 pm. The owner of the 2004 Chevy Suburban had parked it at the corner of Prospect Park West and President Street, but returned to it the next morning to find the rear driver’s-side window smashed. Missing was a credit card and a digital camera.

Cab mayhem

Two men were arrested — a cabbie and the man who tried to rob him — in a crime gone wrong on Nov. 11.

At around 1 am, a man leaped into a 41-year-old livery driver’s cab on Fourth Avenue between Douglass and Degraw streets and started screaming, “Give me the money! Give me the money.”

A struggle ensued, but the driver was able to get out of the car and grab a metal rod from his trunk, cops said.

He used the metal rod to strike the would-be thief repeatedly across the head.

Both men were arrested: the driver for assault and the thief for attempted robbery, cops said.

Flatbush farmed

A thief stole a laptop from a Flatbush Avenue apartment in broad daylight on Nov. 9.

Cops say the man entered the apartment, which is at Prospect Place, at around 9 am by sneaking through an open rear window.

He grabbed the highly portable computer and got the heck out of there.

Subway punch

A man who was doing nothing more than playing a video game on his cellphone as he rode home on the 2 train was suddenly attacked by two men on Nov. 8.

The 32-year-old Lincoln Place man said he’d entered the subway system at Wall Street in Manhattan at around 4:45 pm. Without warning, he said, one of the men punched him hard across the chin and sent him flying to the dirty floor of the subway.

The perp tried to steal the wallet while the accomplice served as a lookout. After a brief struggle, the victim gave up the wallet, which contained $50 and a library card.

Cops say they are looking for two black men, one 5-foot-11, 190 pounds, and the other 6-foot-1, 150 pounds.

School daze

Two desktop computers were stolen from a public school on Park Place on Oct. 29, cops said.

The iMac computers were in a locked room — and the padlock was not damaged in the crime, an indication that it may have been an inside job.

Officials at the school, which is between Fifth and Sixth avenues, told cops that “multiple” employees have access to the room where the computers were kept.

©2007 The Brooklyn Paper