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.

After students and teachers were shut out of virtual classrooms the morning of Feb. 13, Mayor Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks insisted the tech behemoth should have been prepared after the city warned them the day before.

“Knowing that we’ve done everything we can to make sure that this technology was working above and beyond what it was contracted to do, hearing it be summarized as an IBM technology problem was, of course, frustrating,” Vanessa Hunt, senior state executive for New York at IBM said at an oversight hearing Wednesday at City Hall.

As the city hunkered down for expected significant snowfall, public schools announced the day before that classes would shift online — the first systemwide test of remote learning since the pandemic. Despite the advance notice, the public schools’ user log-in authenticator, which it contracts through IBM, buckled when hundreds of thousands of users tried to log on at once.

The chancellor, summing up the fiasco, explained IBM was “not ready for prime time.” While the majority of students eventually got online, many families gave up and ventured outside to enjoy the snow but missed a day of learning.

Hunt explained that the city and IBM are working off a contract that predates the pandemic’s expansion of remote learning. She said IBM has repeatedly increased the capacity of the system, “far beyond” the contracted levels, at no added cost. On the snow day, the platform was handling capacity more than five times what the city is paying for.

“On Feb. 13, the Department of Education had a closet door when it needed a barn door,” Hunt said. “Everyone tried to rush through that door at once.”

Going into the remote day, education officials promised they were prepared. At a press conference and closed-door meeting with elected officials, Banks and his deputies touted “simulations” that schools participated in before the winter break to test run a pivot to online.

But the city’s public schools did not conduct a load test ahead of time, education officials confirmed Wednesday. Remote learning practices took place over two weeks from November to December, with the exact date determined by dozens of superintendents. They would not commit to stress-testing the system going forward.

“It is a heavy lift and a big ask to ask all of our families and teachers to take that on, so we’re thinking we’re thinking that through,” said public schools’ Chief Operating Officer Emma Vadehera, who described a stress-test as not “industry standard.”

Education officials are considering changes to the contract, including a provision that would automatically adjust system capacity to its scale of users. In the meantime, the city could stagger start times on remote days to avoid repeating last month’s technical failures. Students would take turns logging on by grade level, which could take over an hour to get everyone online, according to early estimates.

“I know how frustrating it was for many students and families who experienced delays when logging in for class,” said Scott Strickland, who until last week was the public schools’ acting Chief Information Officer. “We’re sorry we did not prevent this issue from arising.”

Daquan David, 29, is charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the Feb. 26 death of Nazim Berry.

David asked Berry for a free Black & Mild at the bodega on Franklin St. near Lincoln Place in Crown Heights but the employee said no, cops said.

David left and then returned with a gun, allegedly shooting Berry, 37, in the head.

Cops found Berry outside the Amin Deli about 4:15 p.m.. Medics rushed him to Kings County Hospital but he could not be saved.

David’s arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court was pending Wednesday afternoon.

Hochul is slated to attend as a guest of Rep. Adriano Espaillat, a Manhattan-Bronx Democrat. Last year, Espaillat brought Mayor Adams as his guest to the State of the Union.

In a statement, the governor said much in New York hinges on federal action, including “addressing immigration and border security” after Republicans upended a bipartisan deal to secure the southwestern border.

Hochul apparently would be the first sitting New York governor to attend a State of the Union speech since at least the early ’80s. She is the first woman to serve as New York’s governor, and Espaillat said he thought it would be fitting to bring her at the start of Women’s History Month.

“She also has been a strong visionary for the state,” Espaillat said by phone, praising her work to help secure federal funding for families.

Hochul, a Democrat, has fostered a warm public relationship with Biden, and she is set to serve as one of his campaign surrogates in his expected general election race with Donald Trump.

Though she has at times directed public criticism toward the White House over the city’s migrant crisis, she has had a far gentler touch than Adams on the issue.

The Democratic mayor was removed from the president’s surrogate squad last year after saying Biden had “failed” New York.

The State of the Union offers a chance for the 81-year-old president to turn popular perceptions as he tilts into campaign mode and tries to dispel widespread concern that he is too old for another term.

Polls show Trump leading Biden.

New York politicians sent an array of messages through their State of the Union guests.

Rep. Tom Suozzi, the Democrat who won a special election on Long Island last month, invited the parents of Omer Neutra, a member of the Israeli Army who was taken hostage in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks and remains missing.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, an Albany Democrat, invited Billie Jean King, the trailblazing tennis legend.

And Sen. Chuck Schumer of Brooklyn, the Democratic majority leader, invited a 25-year-old Ukrainian soldier who lost one of his legs below the knee after he was injured by a landmine. The soldier came to New York City this winter for medical treatment.

Schumer said he hoped the presence of the soldier, Andrii Chevozorov, would bring attention to the need for American weapons and equipment in Ukraine, which is losing ground to Russia’s invasion. 

Legislation to provide more U.S. aid to Ukraine has been held up by House Republicans.

Schumer told the Daily News he was bringing Chevozorov to “make a point” to the Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson of Louisiana.

“If he doesn’t put the bill on the floor, he will regret it next year and the year after,” Schumer said, warning of the Ukrainians’ plight. “One of the American leaders told me that if we don’t give them armaments, Russian tanks could be at the border of Poland in a year.”

Chevozorov is expected to wear his uniform to the speech.

Officer Marc Johnson, a nine-year Correction Department veteran, was suspended Tuesday after a random search uncovered the cache of banned items concealed in a metal box in a hallway on the second floor of the North Infirmary Command, correction sources said.

The discovery was made in a section of the jail used for violent detainees and those with high-profile cases.

The box also contained three watches, a set of headphones with a microphone, a speaker, a clock and an airplane bottle of Jack Daniels honey liqueur, correction sources said. A second airplane bottle of honey whisky was allegedly found in Johnson’s vehicle.

Correction Department spokeswoman Shayla Mulzac confirmed Wednesday that Johnson was suspended for 30 days without pay for possession of contraband. An investigation is ongoing.

“Any staff who brings contraband into our jails will face serious consequences, including possible termination and criminal charges,” said Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie. “The presence of prohibited items directly impacts safety for all staff and people in custody.”

Lynelle Maginley-Liddie, the 38th commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction.Johnson made $144,328 in fiscal 2023, including $48,262 for working 694 hours of overtime, city payroll records show.

In fiscal 2022, he made $158,216, including $55,799 for 802 hours of overtime, the payroll records show.

The suspension comes as the Correction Department has expanded the use of body scanners in the jails to check staff for possible contraband.

The program began in February 2023 — following much resistance spanning several administrations —  when then-Correction Commissioner Louis Molina had a body-scanning machine for staff installed in the Robert N. Davoren Center.

Since then, the department has added scanners in the Otis Bantum Correctional Center and the Eric M. Taylor Center.

Now, under Maginley-Liddie, the George R. Vierno Center is next, with the three remaining jails at Rikers — the infirmary command, the Rose M. Singer Center and the West Facility —  to follow.

Contraband is a persistent problem at Rikers.

In October, the federal monitor tracking violence and staff use of force in New York City’s jails said they were  “pervasive, leading to slashings and open drug use” even in the high-security Enhanced Supervision Housing unit at the Singer Center.

Weapons are “easily available” and drug use is “rampant,” the Oct. 5 report said.

From January to November 2023, 4,020 contraband items were confiscated in more than 100,000 searches compared with 8,598 items in 2022, the monitor reported Dec 22.

While contraband smuggling is often blamed on detainees, visitors and the mail, a number of officers have been caught bringing in drugs, phones, weapons and other items in recent years.

In November, former Correction Officer Krystle Burrell was sentenced to two years and five months in federal prison for taking $10,000 in bribes to smuggle in drugs and cell phones for detainee Terrae Hinds, with whom she was romantically involved.

In April, former Correction Officer Katrina Patterson was sentenced to a year in prison for taking $34,000 in bribes to smuggle drugs and cell phones into the Davoren Center.

In November 2022, Correction Department investigator Andrew Walker testified at a Brooklyn Federal Court trial that officers and staff are “usually” the source of contraband.

“They [detainees] usually use officers and civilian staff,” Walker said during the trial of James Albert, accused of bribing correction officers to smuggle contraband.

Albert was found guilty of bribing staff, including former Correction Officer Patrick Legerme. Legerme pleaded guilty to conspiring to accept bribes.

But the Correction Department reported no staff suspensions for contraband in 2022 and three in the first half of 2023, compared with 11 between January 2020 and June 2021, the Dec. 22 monitor report said.

Detectives believe Troy’s link to the violent Drench street gang, emblazoned on his body in ink, led to his death last Thursday.

“Whether he was in a gang or affiliated, he was targeted,” the police source said. “We don’t know if the other gang was looking specifically for him or [just for] anyone in that gang, but this wasn’t a stray bullet shooting.”

Cops believe Troy may have been shot in retaliation for an earlier clash involving a rival street gang. Investigators are focusing their attention on a white Jeep seen fleeing the scene and were tracking the movements of the mystery vehicle both before and after the shooting.

At a vigil for the intermediate school student on Tuesday evening, Troy’s family again denied he had any gang connections.

“We don’t know anything about any tattoo,” Troy’s stepfather told the Daily News at the vigil outside Troy’s home on St. Marks Ave., where more than 100 mourners stood in the rain to remember the fallen teen. “If he had one, he must have hid it.”

Troy’s mother, Mary Culbertson, was inconsolable during the vigil.

“This hurts me,” she said, weeping. “This was my baby! This was my first son!”

Troy FaceTimed his mother moments after he was shot near the corner of New York Ave. and Bergen St., asking for help, cops said. He told her he was running toward the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, but he collapsed about two blocks from where he was hit. He was shot repeatedly in the chest and arm, cops said.

A dog walker found him bleeding in the street, cops said. Medics rushed him to Kings County Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved.

When police arrived at the scene, Troy’s frantic family was nearby, desperately searching for the mortally wounded child.

Cops recovered about six shell casings from the scene. No arrests have been made.

Culbertson told cops she didn’t know her son went to the game until he FaceTimed her from the arena about 9 p.m. He FaceTimed her again about an hour later from an Uber, according to cops.

His last call was at 10:36 p.m., telling Culbertson he had been shot, cops said.

“He was a 13-year-old boy,” Culbertson told The News on Monday. “He was a baby and that should’ve never happened to him or anyone else’s baby. He did not deserve that.”

Cops are scouring video to see what happened as Troy left the Barclays Center. They’re also trying to figure out who he went to the game with and where he was planning to go afterward.

“This homicide is extremely troubling,” Assistant Chief Jerry O’Sullivan of the NYPD Detective Bureau said Tuesday. “It bothered me personally. I have a son the same age and we’re not going to rest until this case is solved.”

“This is unacceptable,” he added. “It’s tragic. It’s disgusting.”

The Drench gang operates in Bedford-Stuyvesant and northern Brooklyn and is part of the drill rap scene. Earlier reports on Troy’s slaying misidentified the crew as the Trench gang.

“Drench gang leaves bodies in the street,” one rapper’s lyrics note.

Internal strife among the gang in 2022 led to gangbanger Dinikue Grant gunning down fellow street crew member Daquan Trantham on a basketball court in St. Andrew’s Playground at Atlantic and Kingston Aves. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said. Grant was later arrested and charged with murder.

El Paso ex-con Hector Medina sent the lying former congressman text messages and a video last year purporting to be a man with a particular set of skills that could make Santos’ criminal charges vanish, Brooklyn federal prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint.

He also made a $1 million offer to an unnamed California actor convicted of multiple felonies in May. A source with knowledge of the situation identified the actor as Danny Masterson, who was convicted of raping two women.

Medina is also accused of similar offers to a musician arrested in June and an athlete’s relative who was busted in May.

Calling himself “Mike Soto,” Medina is accused of sending an unsolicited video message to Santos in July, while the Republican elected from a district including parts of Nassau County and Queens was still in Congress.

“You don’t know me but, I wanted you to see a face and trust me on what I’m about to tell you. I work with prosecutors and, uh, judges throughout the United States and I want to give you the opportunity to offer my services. I was contacted by some people to reach out to you and see if you wanted to cut a deal,” he said, according to the feds.

“Uh, this only stands for today. If you’re interested, I can get everything dropped, evidence that is on you removed, disappeared. Reach out to me if you’re interested. It’s simple yes or no. Thank you.”

He then sent Santos several text messages, asking him if he had the wrong number, then offering, “I can get all the charges dropped” and “All I need is for you or someone to wire 900k,” according to the feds

In a string of texts, he said, “Once this is done I’ll take care of the rest. I’m the real deal don’t let doubt come in the way of you getting this dismissed,” the feds allege.

In August, Medina persisted, according to the feds, sending more texts like, “I know you see my messages,” and recording another video, boasting, “I’m on your team. If you don’t want the help, at least connect me with people that do. Um, you know, I’m really good at what I do. I am a genius. I am a wizard when it comes to things like this.”

Santos, who lied about nearly every aspect of his life during his successful run for office in 2022, was ousted from the job in December. He faces multiple fraud and identity theft charges, including allegations he stole people’s identities and made unauthorized charges on campaign donors’ credit cards to buy designer clothes and pay personal debts.

The complaint doesn’t identify Santos by name, but rather as Individual-1. It explicitly describes him as New York’s 3rd Congressional District representative from Jan. 7 to Dec. 1.

In June, Medina sent messages to the California actor identified as Masterson and to Masterson’s then-spouse, said the feds.

The message allegedly said: “My name is Mike and I’m working with the people affiliated with your case. I can get the case thrown out or a reduced sentence very low but my people are asking for a $1 million dollar fee.”

When law enforcement came calling on Dec. 14, Medina admitted the scam, saying he searched the internet looking for people in trouble, and that he needed the cash to pay off more than $100,000 in gambling debts, according to the complaint.

Medina — who has a history of fraud and theft convictions in Texas, according to the feds — is charged with wire fraud and was expected to appear in federal court in El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday.

“I’m currently in my initial phases of my representation of Mr. Medina in this matter. Mr. Medina eagerly anticipates confronting the allegations against him through the formal legal process,” his lawyer Joseph Veith said Wednesday.

Medina’s case will be transferred to Brooklyn Federal Court at a later date.

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.

Homicide detectives charged Steven Brown, 44, Jeffrey Mackey, 38, Amanda Wallace, 40, and Alexis Nieves, 33, with hindering prosecution, tampering with physical evidence and concealing a human corpse. They have not been charged with killing the victims, but it’s unclear if additional charges will follow.

Suffolk County Police said the suspects were arrested after a search warrant was executed Monday night at the Amityville home that Brown, Mackey and Wallace share. Nieves is said to be homeless, but had been staying at the house on Railroad Ave. for a period of time, according to News12 Long Island.

All four suspects were arraigned Wednesday in Suffolk County District Court. They pleaded not guilty and were released without bail, though they’re required to wear GPS monitoring, report to probation in person and surrender their passports.

“Unfortunately, due to ‘bail reform’ passed by the New York State Legislature in 2019, charges related to the mutilation and disposal of murdered corpses are no longer bail eligible,” Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said in a statement.

At Wednesday’s arraignments, Assistant District Attorney Frank Schroeder said authorities have significant evident to support their case, including meat cleavers, butcher knives, blood and surveillance video, but did not specify where the weapons and blood were found.

The names of the victims — a 53-year-old man and a 59-year-old woman — have not been released. Investigators said that, at one point, the pair lived together in Yonkers. Police suspect they may have been involved in a love triangle, according to NBC News.

Cops began their investigation last Thursday when a girl walking to school spotted a man’s tattooed arm outside Southards Pond Park in Babylon. A subsequent search of the park turned up his other arm, as well as the head, arm and leg of a female victim.

Body parts believed to belong to the same victims were also found Tuesday roughly 4 miles away in a wooded area in West Babylon. Additional remains were found that same day in Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, about 10 miles from the first crime scene.

District Attorney Tierney confirmed the investigation is ongoing and vowed to work with police to “resolve this investigation as soon as possible.”

Police believe the situation is an isolated incident posing no additional threat to the public.

The outgoing Senate GOP leader, who famously called Trump “morally and practically responsible” for the violent attack on the Capitol, said in a statement that it was time for Republicans to unite behind the party’s presumptive nominee.

“Trump has earned the requisite support of Republican voters to be our nominee for president of the United States,” McConnell said in a statement. “It should come as no surprise that as nominee, he will have my support.”

McConnell’s announcement came after Nikki Haley suspended her campaign the day after Trump won a sweeping victory in the Super Tuesday primaries.

McConnell, 82, last week announced he will step down as Republican Senate leader after the fall elections.

“I look forward to the opportunity of switching from playing defense against the terrible policies the Biden administration has pursued to a sustained offense geared towards making a real difference in improving the lives of the American people,” McConnell said.

He bragged about working with Trump during his first term in the White House, especially in remaking the federal judiciary and installing three conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices.

McConnell did not mention Trump’s effort to overturn his loss in the 2020 election, an effort that culminated with the violent Jan. 6 attack by a mob of Trump supporters.

McConnell harshly denounced Trump for engineering what he called an attack on American democracy and the Constitution.

But the iconic leader of the GOP establishment opposed Trump’s impeachment over his incitement of the attack. He effectively blocked Trump’s conviction in the Senate, a decision that opened the door to Trump’s dramatic political comeback.

Trump has viciously derided McConnell for years, branding him an “old crow,” a Republican in name only and worse.

The former president also used anti-Asian nicknames to abuse McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, who served as his own transportation secretary but quit after Jan. 6.

After nearly two decades as GOP Senate leader, McConnell says he will step down when the new Congress begins next January.

His two top lieutenants are vying for his spot, but Trump may seek to handpick a more pliant acolyte to the powerful position.

McConnell has said he will serve out the remainder of his term, which runs through the 2026 elections. But some predict he will retire sooner.