New York Daily News

Uber-dumb robs

- City will lay out $3 million per year to expand free vision tests and glasses for schoolkids. Ben Chapman Rocco Parascando­la, Laura Dimon and Thomas Tracy

MORE NEEDY students are getting free eyeglasses from their public schools, city officials said Tuesday.

Staffers at 227 schools are giving kids free vision tests and Warby Parker glasses in an expansion of a program at 130 schools.

The expansion will cost the city roughly $3 million each year.

About 94,000 students have received vision screenings and more than 20,000 pairs of eyeglasses have been distribute­d since 2015. SADLY, THERE isn’t an app to cure stupidity.

Cops slammed the brakes on a boneheaded Uber carjacker who swiped two for-hire vehicles from their drivers within two days — but then left behind identifyin­g documents inside one of the cars.

William Coleman, a 26-year-old homeless man, is facing robbery, grand larceny and kidnapping charges for his short car-stealing spree that began Saturday in Jersey City.

Police said Coleman jumped into the back of a 70-year-old Uber driver’s Honda CRV as it sat unlocked in a McDonald’s parking lot in Jersey City.

“I made a turn, and he popped up from the backseat,” said the driver, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Coleman tied up the victim with his belt and drove the Uber driver to the driver’s home in Midtown, ordering him to grab a bank card and come back so the two could fetch money from an ATM.

Coleman left his backpack when he abandoned the car, so cops were looking for him when he allegedly struck again on 10th Ave. in Midtown early Sunday. That time, the Uber driver used the company app to alert his fellow drivers that his car had been stolen.

Cops found the car and arrested Coleman without incident at about 8 a.m.

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