MANHATTAN

Cops are hunting a quintet of drugstore cowboys who robbed an Upper West Side pharmacy last month, authorities said.

The bandits broke into a Duane Reade at Columbus Avenue near West 94th Street on Dec. 21 at 10 p.m. and were confronted by a security guard.

One of the thugs flashed a handgun and the group quickly grabbed an assortment of over-the-counter drugs from the shelves before fleeing, cops said.

The five are described as in their late teens to early 20s and wearing red and black clothing. The guard was not injured.

BROOKLYN

An off-duty city correction officer was arrested for leaving her four children home alone, police said.

Rina Dorley-Amos allegedly left her kids, ages 2, 4, 5 and 7, home by themselves for three hours on Jan. 16, authorities said.

Cops received a complaint about the alleged neglect and nabbed Dorley-Amos at 11:30 p.m. Friday.

Police discovered the bullet-riddled corpse of a man in an SUV in Canarsie early yesterday, cops said.

The 34-year-old Maryland man was slumped over the steering wheel of a 2003 GMC Envoy parked with the engine running at the corner of East 102nd Street and Flatlands Avenue at 12:30 a.m., police said.

The man, who did not appear to have been robbed, was shot in the head and torso and was pronounced dead at the scene, cops said.

Two masked men made off with about $4,000 after they held up a Prospect Heights store, police sources said yesterday.

The duo walked into Flatbush Grocery and News on Flatbush Avenue near Sterling Place at 11 p.m. on Thursday, the sources said.

One of the hoodlums, clad in black stocking masks, grabbed an employee from behind and took him to the back of the store at gunpoint, while his accomplice handled the other male victim, authorities said.

Once at the rear of the shop, the armed suspect forced one of the victims to give him money from the register, safe and lottery register, as well as a plastic garbage bag into which to put the money, police sources said.

After taking the money, the crooks bound the victims with their own shoelaces.

They took the victims’ cellphones and the keys to the store, which the thieves used to lock the door behind them when they fled.

QUEENS

One man’s luck ran out when he was shot in front of the “Lucky Ronald Deli” in St. Albans, police sources said yesterday.

The 39-year-old victim, whose name was not released, was standing in front of the store on Farmers Boulevard when he heard gunshots at 10:15 a.m. Thursday, the sources said.

The victim, struck by a shot, ran inside the deli, where cops found him.

He suffered a wound to the upper right arm and was taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital in stable condition.

Detectives recovered two .38-caliber shell casings on the sidewalk in front of the shop, police sources said.