MANHATTAN

*** Detectives were looking for the driver responsible for the hit-and-run death of a 54-year-old man who was killed while crossing a Harlem intersection yesterday morning.

The victim, whose name was not released pending notification of his relatives, was heading west across Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard at West 145th Street when he was struck by a northbound green Mazda. The victim was taken to Harlem Hospital where he died of his injuries.

THE BRONX

*** The Identity Theft Squad has charged a Chase bank teller with stealing $6,500 from an elderly customer’s account, sources said.

Stephanie Cole, 19, was arrested March 1 for allegedly forging the 76-year-old customer’s signature on a withdrawal slip on three occasions.

QUEENS

*** A 44-year-old man has died after losing control of his motorcycle in Cambria Heights, police said. The victim, whose name was not released pending notification of his relatives, was traveling south on the Cross Island Parkway when he lost control of his bike as he was exiting toward the eastbound Southern State Parkway at 9 p.m. Friday.

He fell to the pavement and was taken to Franklin General Hospital, where he was declared dead.

BROOKLYN

*** Detectives from the District Attorney’s Office seized more than $28,000 in cash and arrested three men for promoting gambling, as part of an investigation dubbed “Operation Kings Flush,” law-enforcement sources said yesterday.

The detectives raided five alleged gambling headquarters Friday – two in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, two in Whitestone, Queens, and another in Corona, Queens.

They confiscated three computers, gambling slips, tape-recording devices and financial records.

The raids in Brooklyn led to the seizure of $8,805, sources said.

Charles Messina, 74, and his son, Charles Messina Jr., 47, were charged with promoting gambling and possession of gambling records, each a felony. The younger Messina in March 1998 was charged with promoting gambling, sources said.

The Queens raids, which occurred with the cooperation of the Queens DA’s Office, led to the seizure of $19,643, sources said.

Donald Abo, 48, was charged with promoting gambling and possession of gambling records at those sites. He was busted in March 1999 for a similar gambling offense, sources said.

*** The Special Frauds Squad charged a Bedford-Stuyvesant bank employee with embezzling $23,000 from a customer’s account, sources said yesterday.

Shaffiat Ali, 28, allegedly admitted that while serving as a “personal banker” for a JPMorgan Chase branch, at 891 Utica Ave., he issued a temporary debit card for an account without giving the customer the card.

He then changed the customer’s personal identification number to permit himself to make $23,000 worth of ATM withdrawals without her permission, sources said.

*** A Canarsie teen shot and critically wounded in a Crown Heights nightclub last week has died of his injuries, police said yesterday.

Albert Santana, 19, was struck once in the face by a bullet fired by a gunman while inside Attractions, at 566 Nostrand Ave., at 4 a.m. Sunday. It was not clear if Santana was the target.

Santana, of East 102nd Street, was taken to Interfaith Hospital in critical condition and succumbed to his injuries Friday, police said.

*** Authorities were probing the death of a 33-year-old woman who was found strangled inside her Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment early yesterday.

Angel Coffie was discovered inside her apartment on Putnam Avenue at 12:30 a.m.

Police last night were interviewing her live-in boyfriend.