MANHATTAN (lcf)

* Two men armed with a gun held up a Lower East Side bank yesterday.

The bandits, wearing dark sunglasses and hats, walked into the Washington Mutual branch at 130 Second Ave. at about 4:45 p.m., flashed a gun at a teller and demanded money. She gave them an undetermined amount of cash.

They stuffed it into a bag and fled.

The two men, described as Hispanic, about five-foot, six-inches tall and wearing heavy, green winter coats, drove off in a white Chevy minivan. No one was hurt.

BROOKLYN

* A store owner was arrested for beating a worker with a bat in his Bedford-Stuyvesant deli, authorities said yesterday.

Sources said Zakhran Nahari walked inside the deli on Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Halsey Street about 2 a.m. Sunday and tried to take money out of the cash register.

A 25-year-old male worker attempted to stop Nahari from removing the cash, the sources said.

Nahari allegedly picked up a bat and swung it at the worker’s head, but missed.

He then allegedly broke the worker’s left ankle with the bat.

The injured man was taken to Brooklyn Hospital, where he was treated and released.

Later that day, the victim went back to the store and called police. Nahari was charged with assault, menacing and weapons possession.

* A customer was arrested for hitting a female worker in the head with a stapler during an argument in a downtown Brooklyn cellphone store, authorities said yesterday.

The violence began about 5 p.m. Saturday, when Theresa Alcantaro, 26, shouted at the 27-year-old clerk about a broken cellphone in the store at Fulton Street near Livingston Street, sources said.

Alcantaro insisted on receiving a replacement phone, but the worker said the store owner was not in and Alcantaro would have to come back later with a receipt.

That’s when Alcantaro picked up a metal stapler from the counter and hurled it at the worker, hitting her in the head, sources said.

The victim called 911 and another employee locked the door so Alcantaro could not flee.

Police arrived and arrested Alcantaro, who was charged with assault, menacing and weapons possession.

The victim received stitches at Long Island College Hospital.

* A couple was arrested for attacking each other in a Crown Heights apartment, authorities said yesterday.

Darnell Brown, 20, and Chaquana Burnett, 20, were busted Monday and charged with assault after the violence in Burnett’s Prospect Place home about 12:15 p.m. that day, sources said.

Burnett claimed Brown repeatedly slugged her in the face, scratching her eye.

She told authorities she grabbed a baseball bat in self-defense and bashed Brown in the head.

He told authorities he was trying to leave the apartment when she hit him.

THE BRONX

* The body of a man was found hanging from a tree in an apparent suicide yesterday in Van Cortlandt Park, authorities said.

About 1 a.m., the unidentified body was discovered at an undisclosed location in the park, cops said.

QUEENS

* Two men were attacked by a pair of armed thugs yesterday during a botched robbery in a Corona park that left one victim with stab wounds, police sources said.

The victims, in their 20s, had bought food from a restaurant and went to eat it in the park at 111th Street and Corona Avenue about 4 a.m., sources said.

Suddenly, two unidentified men – one brandishing a gun and the other a knife – approached the victims and tried to rob them.

A fight ensued in which the gunman fired a shot but did not hit anyone.

The other assailant stabbed one of the victims several times and fled empty-handed with his cohort.

The wounded man was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

STATEN ISLAND

* A man was arrested for exposing himself to a mother and her three girls outside a Kmart in New Dorp in July, a criminal-court complaint said.

Christian Desantis, 31, allegedly masturbated in front of the woman and her children, ages 4, 8 and 9, in the parking lot of the department store at Hylan Boulevard and Lindbergh Avenue about 3:15 p.m. on July 29, the complaint states.

He was arrested Monday and charged with public lewdness and endangering the welfare of a child.

* Three teens have been charged with stealing beer and golf carts at Silver Lake Golf Course and setting one of the carts on fire, authorities said yesterday.

Kenneth Turkus, 17, and two 15-year-old boys slipped onto the course on Victory Boulevard about 10:30 p.m. Friday and ripped off two cases of beer from a locked storage area, sources said.

They then allegedly took golf carts and drove away, setting one of them on fire.

Police identified the suspects from video surveillance footage, and the three were captured Monday and charged with burglary and criminal possession of stolen property.

* An alleged prostitute was arrested early yesterday for trying to solicit sex on a Stapleton street, police sources said.

Cops saw Kristy Holmes, 30, walking at Broad and Quinn streets, an area known for prostitution, and attempting to flag down three male motorists about 1:20 a.m., sources said.