Leave pay gets teacher in trouble

Harlem Hospital, where he was expected to survive.

“We have four people in the stationhouse, and they are being questioned,” Monahan said.

No charges were immediately filed. “People were like, ‘Oh my God.’ A lot of screaming and panic, it was the fog of war,” said Dana Windsor, 49, a music publisher who lives across the street. “The cops were coming and were mostly taking defensive positions behind their cars.”

The incident sparked a massive NYPD response. Neighbors said the gunman in the apartment initially refused to surrender.

Brawls have been known to break out at the address, other residents said.

A former city schoolteacher was arrested for bilking the city of $29,000 in fraudulent medical leave pay, the Education Department’s investigations unit announced Thursday.

Jeffrey Gooding collected a city salary for five months during a medical leave — while simultaneously working for a Harlem charter school, according to investigators.

“Mr. Gooding stole valuable resources meant to benefit DOE students,” said Special Commissioner of Investigation Anastasia Coleman.

“There is no place in the school system for those who put their own interests before those of the children,” she added.

Gooding left his post at Public School 46 in Harlem for paid medical leave, but then took a job at Harlem Village Academy charter school in August 2016.

He stayed on city medical leave while also working for the charter school until January 2017, when Gooding resigned from the Education Department.

Gooding collected $29,000 in city pay during that span, investigators said.

He was arrested and charged by the Manhattan district attorney with grand larceny, investigators said.