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Maurice Hill, 46, who had allegedly stolen $3,000 from the Apple Bank at West 73rd Street and Broadway on Tuesday, was arrested — still covered in red dye — the next morning at a Bronx motel in the company of a prostitute, police sources said.

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After Tuesday’s heist, an ink-stained Hill shelled out dye-covered cash for a cab ride to 116th Street, where he bought crack and got high, police sources said.

The claims over the last 12 years include $285,046 paid by the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad to passengers who tore items of clothing on armrests of the M7 train cars that service those lines.

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“Look, Ma, I’m on top of the world!” Richard [Sonny] Randazzo shouted to his stunned mother, Chora, Wednesday as news photographers snapped his photo and he accepted his jackpot.

The bachelor, who lives with his parents in Gravesend, Brooklyn, admitted he’s been buying up to $30 worth of lottery tickets weekly for the past 25 years with little to show until now.

On May 2, his luck changed when he bought a roast beef sandwich and his winning “Set for Life” scratch ticket at the Mill Basin Mini Mart.

“What a very strange trip it’s been,” Randazzo said at Wednesday’s news conference at Gargiulo’s restaurant in Coney Island.

Randazzo said he had “itchy palms” when he purchased his ticket, a telltale sign of luck. He said he chose to play “Set for Life” because he “zoned in on” the orange and red tickets.

When he saw he had won, he quickly called his parents, who were vacationing in Florida.

“We’re rich!” he shouted.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Randazzo’s father, Frank, a retired machinist, said of his son beating the nearly 1 in 4 million odds.

“I asked Richie, ‘You sure you read it right?'”

Chora Randazzo, a retired hairdresser, admitted she often scolded her son about playing the lottery: “I told him he was throwing his money in the garbage.”

And now, board member Dick Zigun is showing his ingratitude by planning to resign from the agency overseeing Coney Island development to protest the administration’s revamped vision for the fabled amusement district.

Zigun confessed Friday that he’s lived for the past decade on the second floor of the majestic Surf Avenue building that also houses a nonprofit organization he founded in 1980.

Zigun’s Coney Island USA — which runs a world-famous circus sideshow and museum and organizes the annual Mermaid Parade — had been paying $100,000-a-year rent on the site until 2007, when the city handed it $3.6 million in taxpayer-funded grant money to buy the building from its previous owner as part of an expansion plan.

But Zigun’s secondary use of 1208 Surf Ave. as his home appears to be a blatant violation of the funding agreement with the city.