Manhattan

Three people were arrested yesterday and charged with the fatal shooting of a man in his Harlem apartment, cops said. Yolanda McDowell, 20, Maurice McDowell, 22, and William Calderone, 23, are charged with killing Gary Gates, 41, Tuesday afternoon. Gates was shot once in the chest. The three suspects all live at 70 Lenox Ave., the apartment building where the drug-related shooting occurred.

A man walked into the Independence Community Bank at 43 E. 8th St. in the East Village yesterday morning and gave the teller a note demanding cash, police said. The teller gave an unspecified amount of money to the robber and he fled. Cops described the robber as a 5-foot-7 white man in his 30s. He was wearing a red jacket, dark pants and black gloves.

A letter containing anti-Semitic remarks was sent to the Tel Aviv Car Service at 139 First Ave., cops said. The hate mail was received yesterday around 3:30 p.m. A note-passing bandit held up an Upper East Side bank yesterday afternoon, making off with an unknown amount of cash, police said. The thief, described as a 40-year-old Hispanic man, walked into the Chase Bank at 35 East 72nd St., passed a teller a note demanding money and announced that he had a gun in his bag, cops said.

Brooklyn

A 54-year-old man was shot in the face during a mugging on a Williamsburg street, cops said. The man told police he was standing where North 9th Street meets the East River when two men, described as black and in their 30s, stole his camera and some money. After taking the goods, one of the suspects shot him anyway. The victim drove himself to Woodhull Hospital and was in stable condition.

A 32-year-old Brooklyn man was shot twice while sitting in a car on the corner of Hegeman and Van Siclen avenues in East New York Thursday during a drug-related dispute with two Long Island men, cops said. Andre Wheeler, 32, allegedly tried to choke one of the men and Patrick Sundack, 25, of East Rockaway, shot him two times in the chest. The Acura that Wheeler was driving surged forward and hit a lightpole at Ashford Street and Linden Boulevard. Cops responded immediately and arrested Sundack and David Shafer, 36, of Long Beach. Wheeler was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he was in critical but stable condition. Police found a .38-caliber revolver with two spent shells and a .380 semi-automatic in the car. A car accident in Sheepshead Bay yesterday afternoon took the life of a Connecticut woman, police said. Dana Jones, 65, was headed west on Avenue V around 1:30 p.m. whe she ran a red light at the Knapp Street intersection, said cops. A Dodge Intrepid heading through the green light hit Jones’ car. Police sources said it is possible Jones – who had a medical condition – had a heart attack. She was pronounced dead at Coney Island Hospital. The other driver was unhurt.A 13-year-old middle school student was arrested yesterday after she was caught carrying a gun to school, cops said. The JHS 357 student was nabbed by a school safety officer inside the school, which is located at 46 McKeever Place in Crown Heights. The loaded 9 mm handgun was found in her bag after another student alerted the officer.

Queens

Police arrested four people in Long Island City who made off with thousands by robbing the La Guardia College bookstore in 2000 and 2001. Ramesh Meroshmie, 22, and Kevin Affoon, Danita Brown and Kevin Grant, all 23, took money from the Thompson Avenue store in December 2000 and June 2001, said police. All live in the same Brownsville, Brooklyn address.

Bronx

An elderly man walking across the Grand Concourse at East 170th Street yesterday was mowed down by a hit-and-run driver, police said. Dennis Hostos, 21, an aide who works at the Hebrew Home for the Aged, was driving a friend’s Toyota home from work. One witness told police that after Hostos hit the man, he got out, checked to see if he was alive, then sped off. An alert school bus driver jotted down the plate number and called cops, who stopped the car a few blocks away at East 167th Street and Morris Avenue. Hostos was charged with vehicular assault and leaving the scene of an accident, police said. The 84-year-old victim, whose name was not released, was taken to Lincoln Hospital, where he was in serious condition. Hostos’ mother, Nilda, said her son “hasn’t given me no trouble before. He’s not a bad person. He’s a calm person. Maybe he just got paranoid or he got scared.”

A teen was found shot to death in his car yesterday at the corner of Westervelt and Waring avenues in Pelham Gardens, police said. The victim, Damien Bravo, 19, was discovered at 7:48 a.m.

A 12-year-old boy was arrested yesterday for sodomizing a 12-year-old girl inside the R.T. Hudson School in the Claremont section, cops said. The attack occurred Thursday at 1 p.m. The suspect and victim are both students at the school, which is located at 1122 Forest Ave.

A Manhattan schoolteacher allegedly assaulted cops when she was arrested in Highbridge yesterday on a charge of driving with a suspended license, said police. Inez James, 27, a teacher at PS 182, was charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer.A man shouting anti-gay remarks at a 37-year-old man smashed him with a firearm near Fulton Avenue in the Melrose section, cops said yesterday. The victim in the Feb. 26 incident suffered a severe cut and was taken to a local hospital. The suspect fled.

A woman reported missing was found unhurt yesterday, cops said. Maria Foster, 31, had been missing for three weeks, but her fiancé hadn’t reported her missing until two days ago. She was last seen leaving her apartment at 1357 Washington Ave. in Claremont on Feb. 13. When found yesterday, she told police she had left of her own volition.