MANHATTAN

* A man was shot and critically injured yesterday on an East Harlem street, law-enforcement sources said. About 4 p.m., someone approached the 20-year-old man on East 116th Street, pulled a gun and shot him multiple times before fleeing, the sources said. “There was blood all over his face. He was in bad shape,” a witness said. The victim, whose name was not released, was taken to Metropolitan Hospital in critical condition. (s, lcf)

* A man allegedly raped a teenage girl at knifepoint on the roof of a Washington Heights apartment building, police said yesterday. The 14-year-old girl told cops she was accosted Monday by a man wielding a knife as she entered the building. The man forced her to the roof, where he allegedly raped and sodomized her before fleeing. The victim was taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in stable condition. The assailant was described as a 5-foot-8 Hispanic man in his 30s, wearing a black mask, blue shirt and black shoes.

* Anti-Semitic slurs were scrawled on a poster yesterday at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights. The insults were discovered around midnight on a bulletin board at the college on West 186th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.

THE BRONX

* Police yesterday identified the man shot dead Monday with his own gun while committing a robbery in Mott Haven. Julio Villegas, 41, and two cohorts entered Rassyln Wholesale at 6:45 a.m., allegedly pulled guns and announced a stickup. Villegas struggled with three employees and pistol-whipped one of them. During the fight, the company’s owner grabbed the gun away from Villegas and shot him, sources said. The two other assailants fled. It was not immediately clear if anything was stolen. No criminal charges were filed against the owner of the wholesaler, which sells cigarettes, soda and beer to bodegas.

* Two armed robbers walked into a Citibank branch in Wakefield yesterday, demanded money from a teller and fled with an undetermined amount of cash, police said. The robbery occurred about 9:30 a.m. at the branch on Baychester Avenue near Strange Avenue.

* A man was arrested on DWI charges in Wakefield after he crashed his car and almost killed his passenger, police said yesterday. Hera Dhaniram, 22, lost control of his vehicle around 3 a.m. Monday and slammed his vehicle into a light pole on Baychester Avenue and East 233rd Street. The unidentified passenger was taken to Jacobi Hospital in critical condition. Dhaniram was brought to the same hospital with serious injuries.

* Two men were badly burned yesterday when a boiler explosion rocked an apartment building in Morris Heights. The explosion was triggered at 2:30 p.m. while the men were repairing the boiler in the basement of the 10-story building on West Tremont Avenue. The two victims were taken to Jacobi Hospital in serious condition. Two other people were also injured and taken to the same hospital. Investigators said the explosion did not appear to be suspicious.

BROOKLYN

* A man was busted on robbery charges yesterday in connection with two bank heists in Williamsburg, and cops are hunting for another suspect. Last Thursday, Curtis Frazier, 32, and a man in his 20s, walked into a Washington Mutual branch at 12 Graham Ave., slipped a note demanding money to a teller and fled with approximately $5,000 in cash, cops said. On Jan. 21, Frazier allegedly struck at a Banco Popular branch at 15 Graham Ave. He entered the bank and passed a note before fleeing with cash, cops said.

* A 21-year-old man was critically injured yesterday when he was shot on a Flatbush street, police said. The victim got into an argument with an assailant in front of 2124 Dorchester Road just after midnight. The assailant, described as a man in his 20s, pulled a gun and shot the man in the neck before fleeing. The victim, whose name was not released, was taken to Kings County Hospital in critical condition.

* Police said yesterday a gun used in last weekend’s shooting death of a 17-year-old girl at an East Flatbush nightclub had also been used in two previous incidents. Tests showed that the .40-caliber gun that killed Chantel Bailey of 3820 Church Ave. early Saturday was used in two early-morning shootings on Jan. 26. In the first of the those incidents, a man walked up to a car at a traffic light in Canarsie, shot into the vehicle and fled. In the second, a man walked into the lobby of 25 Parade Place in Kensington, asked people inside for money, then fired the gun after his request was turned down. No one was injured in either incident. Police said bullets recovered in the two January shootings matched those found after the East Flatbush club shooting. Bailey died after she was shot twice in the chest. Four other people were injured at the club. They were identified as Jovann Smith, 17, Niasia Elcock, 16, Tiffany Aviles, 19, and Esmond Jermott, 35.

QUEENS

* Two state parole officers have been arrested for posing as cops to collect overdue rental-property payments in Brooklyn and Queens, police said yesterday. Sandra Sutherland, 45, and Maurice Quidley, 41, were collared around 4:30 p.m. Monday after a long-term investigation by the NYPD, New York state Inspector General’s Office and the Queens DA’s Office. The two men allegedly acted as Rent-A-Center agents, displayed their shields at designated spots and collected overdue TVs, computers and furniture. They were charged with criminal impersonation and official misconduct.

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