THE BRONX

* A Bronx police officer was struck by a hit and run driver last night, cops said.

The officer, whose name was withheld, was walking back to his patrol car after a traffic stop when he was hit by a black SUV at the corner of East Tremont Avenue and Unionport Road in Parkchester at 9:30 p.m., police said.

The cop was treated at Jacobi Hospital for a minor leg injury. (lcf)

* A man leaped to his death from a Parkchester building in an apparent suicide yesterday, authorities said.

The 30-year-old, whose name was not released, was discovered on the ground unconscious in front of a Metropolitan Avenue building near Hawthorne Drive at 1:11 p.m., cops said.

Emergency-medical technicians pronounced the man dead at the scene.

Police do not believe there is any criminality involved.

BROOKLYN

* A livery cab driver was found dead on a Brooklyn street yesterday after he had argued with his passengers over a fare, police said.

A source said the victim may have had a heart condition. His body bore no signs of trauma.

Cops said the driver, Ionin Nikolay, was found on 39th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues at about 5 a.m., minutes after an anonymous man called his dispatcher and told the supervisor where to find him.

Only a short while earlier, Nikolay, a driver for Seaside Car Service on Coney Island Avenue, had called in to a dispatcher and said, “They don’t want to pay me,” according to police.

Nikolay was soon rushed to Maimonides Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Authorities are awaiting a report from the medical examiner before classifying the death.

* A man struck by two cars in Bensonhurst on Saturday has died, police said.

The 32-year-old, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was fatally injured while he crossed Macdonald Avenue and Avenue N at 6 p.m., cops said.

According to authorities, he stepped out from behind an elevated-subway train pillar and was hit by a car.

The impact of the blow caused him to flip over the hood of the vehicle and land in oncoming traffic, where a second car struck him.

He was rushed to Lutheran Hospital, where he died at 11:40 p.m.

The drivers of both cars remained on the scene and were not issued summonses.

Police believe the man lived in Borough Park but were having difficulty locating his family.

* Cops are investigating the death of a patient at Coney Island Hospital who apparently hung himself in his room, authorities said yesterday.

The 43-year-old man, whose name was not released, was found hanging from the bathroom door of his fifth-floor room around 8:10 p.m. Saturday, police said.

Cops said that the body bore no signs of trauma and that he left no note.

Authorities would not say why he was admitted to the hospital.

QUEENS

* A South Ozone Park man died after apparently taking a nasty spill in his driveway, police said yesterday.

Howard Halstead, 60, was found by his girlfriend outside his 150th Avenue home at 5:55 a.m. Saturday, cops said.

Halstead was discovered lying on the ground bleeding from the left side of his head.

Authorities believe he may have fallen along a walkway.

The cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner.

* A man has been busted for shooting another man dead in a desolate area of Howard Beach late last year, police said yesterday.

Marlon Prince, 24, gunned down Harry Clayton, 29, on Dec. 30, 2005, and left his bullet-riddled body in a weeded beach area about 40 yards from the Cross Bay Bridge, at 165th Avenue and Cross Bay Boulevard, authorities said.

Prince shot Clayton in the head and back and pumped two more bullets into him after he was dead, police sources said. A .38- caliber handgun was recovered near Clayton’s body.

Police sources said the killing appeared to be drug related.

Prince, who was arrested Saturday, is charged with murder, cops said.

* Two teens were nabbed while vandalizing a wall in Woodside, authorities said yesterday.

Marcelo Chelli, 18, and Ronald Galarza, 17, were caught red handed – or maybe silver handed – scribbling on a brick wall on Roosevelt Avenue at 4 a.m. Friday, police sources said.

Chelli and Galarza were drawing letters that were three feet high and two feet wide in a silver Magic Marker when cops spotted them, authorities said.

The two were carrying 16 different markers, and both are facing charges of criminal mischief, making graffiti and possession of graffiti instruments.

Chelli was slapped with an additional charge of criminal possession of a forged instrument because cops found him carrying a phony New York driver’s license baring another name, said a spokeswoman for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

The pair faces up to two years in prison or a $1,000 fine if convicted.