‘LEGEND’ IS DEAD

Gregory, 84, was giant in comedy & civil rights movement

As an accomplice blocked the victim from getting away and held onto him, the brute used the broken bottles to stab him, leaving the victim with deep cuts to his arms, forearms, wrists and back, cops said.

The 39-year-old victim took himself to Mount Sinai St. Luke's for treatment.

The attacker and his accomplice ran off and remain on the lam.

The stabber was wearing a red baseball cap and a red shirt (photo) and his accomplice was wearing a blue shirt.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. DICK GREGORY, the trailblazing comic and civil rights activist whose unique brand of comedy combined cutting wit and contemporary headlines, died Saturday. He was 84. Gregory died in Washington two days after his son revealed that he was hospitalized with a “serious but stable medical condition.”

“It is with enormous sadness that the Gregory family confirms that their father, comedic legend and civil rights activist Mr. Dick Gregory departed this earth tonight in Washington, DC.,” his son Christian Gregory wrote on Instagram.

Born in St. Louis, Gregory first started performing standup comedy in the Army in the 1950s.

His major break came in 1961 when he was spotted by Playboy founder Hugh Hefner performing at a Chicago nightclub.

The tow truck driver was helping a stranded motorist with a broken-down car, cops said.

The gig included what is now one of Gregory’s best-known jokes: “Last time I was down South, I walked into this restaurant. This white waitress came up and said, ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said, ‘That’s all right. I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.’”

Gregory went on to perform before an audience of white businessmen at the Playboy Club in Chicago after the headliner canceled.

“It was the first time they had seen a black comic who was not bucking his eyes, wasn’t dancing and singing and telling mother-inlaw jokes,” he told the Boston Globe in 2000. “Just talking about what I read in the newspaper.”

Gregory instantly shot to fame, landing gigs at the country’s top clubs and raking in as much as $25,000 a night.

At the same time, the civil rights movement was gathering momentum and Gregory bravely injected

Paulino suffered a massive head wound and died at the scene. Medics rushed his fare — a Yonkers woman identified as Amber Normington — to St. Barnabas Hospital.

“No major injuries, nothing broken, which is a major thing,” her sister Kirstie Normington said.

Amber Normington’s police officer fiance Rudolph Rosado added that “she’s doing fine and should be okay.”

Normington told her sisters she somehow ended up on the ground outside of the vehicle.

“She doesn’t know how she got out of the car,” Jacquie Normington said. “We’re just piecing it together based on what we’re seeing online.” himself into the cause, trading stage performances for sit-ins and marches.

Some critics called him out for allowing his demonstrating to interfere with his comedy career.

“My career is interfering with my demonstrating,” Gregory shot back.

A close friend of Rev. Martin

The driver of the tow truck and the person he was helping were unharmed, police said.

Cops put up portable NYPD barricades around the mangled livery car as they conducted their investigation.

Police sources said that, based on the force of the impact, speed played a factor in the smashup. Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, he was shot in the leg during Los Angeles’ Watts Riots in 1965 and even ran for President as a write-in candidate in 1968.

No comedian of the era was as fearless in taking on the political establishment. “Dick Gregory was the greatest, and he was the first,” Richard Pryor once said. “Somebody The Toyota Camry’s front end was obliterated.

A spokesman for the Taxi & Limousine Commission confirmed that Paulino drove for the ride-hail app Uber, but it wasn’t clear if he was working for the company at the time of the crash. Uber was investigating the incident Saturday. had to break down that door.”

Gregory’s activism didn’t end with the civil rights movement. He crusaded for world peace, stood alongside Gloria Steinem and other feminists, and even held a hunger strike in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis.

Gregory’s unconventional life also saw him create a multi-million dollar weightloss powder. “He taught us how to laugh. He taught us how to fight. He taught us how to live,” said the Rev. Jesse Jackson. “Dick Gregory was committed to justice. I miss him already. #RIP”

New York City’s First Lady Chirlane McCray called Gregory a “freedom fighter way ahead of his time.” And Larry King described him as an “American original” and a “giant of comedy, civil rights and astute political observations.”