"I felt it [becoming a police officer] was in my blood,’ said the 62-year-old Queens resident

The predator approached the preteen around 5:45 p.m. in the stairwell of the Cooper Houses building on Morgan Avenue near Jackson Street in Williamsburg.

William Credle allegedly lured a 15-year-old girl to his home and raped her -- less than two years after being charged with a hauntingly similar attack.

The smoke-eaters were responding to a fire in front of a building between Intervale Avenue and Kelly Street in Longwood when the blast occurred around 7:06 p.m., according to the FDNY.

Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzal and Milo Sedarat, both 19, were arrested on Tuesday, with both teens living in $1 million-plus Victorian houses in the manicured New York City suburb.

He went on to randomly strike a 34-year-old man just outside the 73-story skyscraper at the corner of East 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue – before storming inside the lobby of the iconic building and dealing another blow to a 23-year-old man, the sources said. 

The son of a noted Iranian-American poet has been arrested in tony Montclair, New Jersey in connect with an alleged ISIS-inspired terror plot uncovered in Michigan last week.