MANHATTAN

* Masked gunmen stormed a Canal Street jewelry store yesterday and made off with bags of watches, jewels and thousands of dollars in cash, police sources said.

The two men, wearing ski masks, jumped out of a van parked behind the Laprincessa Jewelry store at 6 p.m. and busted through a rear door. Two terrified female employees were ordered at gunpoint to unload the safe.

Before fleeing the crooks grabbed the surveillance tape. (lcf)

* An unlicensed driver was arrested yesterday after police saw him driving erratically and pulled him over in Harlem, authorities said.

The 23-year-old suspect, from Staten Island, was driving southbound on Bradhurst Avenue near West 145th Street at 12:30 a.m., sources said.

Cops driving in the same direction ran his license plate and learned his insurance had been revoked, sources said.

They stopped the vehicle, and a further computer check showed the driver had had his license suspended repeatedly.

The driver, whose name was not immediately available, was arrested and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

THE BRONX

* A thug was arrested yesterday after he beat up a man for his cellphone and led police on a high-speed chase, authorities said yesterday.

The incident began at 5:05 a.m. when a gold-colored car occupied by three men pulled up to the victim speaking on his cellphone at Brooke Avenue and East 163rd Street in Mott Haven, sources said.

One of the suspects, Waldemar Guzman, 23, demanded the phone, but the victim refused.

The suspects jumped, pummeled the victim, snatched the phone and fled.

The victim drove around with cops to search for the perpetrators, and at East 135th Street, the officers spotted the gold car and gave chase.

The high-speed pursuit ended at West Burnside Avenue and Andrews avenues, where police grabbed Guzman.

He was charged with robbery and reckless endangerment. His alleged accomplices escaped.

* Cops raided a Soundview apartment yesterday and busted an elderly drug dealer, police said.

Juan Lopez, 61, was charged with drug and weapons possession after Bronx Gang Unit cops went into his apartment at 1125 Evergreen Avenue just after 6:30 p.m.

Police said Lopez, who has a rap sheet that includes 17 arrests for drug sales, had a 12 gauge shotgun and a sawed-off shotgun as well as dozens of boxes of ammunition and marijuana packaged for sale.

Lopez faces drug and weapons charges. (lcf)

* Detectives busted the gunman who opened fire and killed a patron inside a Baychester lounge, police sources said yesterday.

Hector Stephenson, 26, was arrested Tuesday in the shooting death of 30-year-old Gary Grey inside the Flamingo Lounge Bar and Grill on East Gun Hill Road in the early-morning hours of April 2, sources said.

According to authorities, Grey got into an argument with an unidentified woman, who spat in his face. When Grey and his pals decided to leave, Stephenson fatally shot him several times in the abdomen.

Minutes after the gunfire ended, another man chased patrons into a bathroom and fired through the door, striking a 27-year-old man in the right arm and grazing a 26-year-old woman in the head, police sources said.

* The body of a man was found yesterday near Montefiore Hospital in Norwood, police said.

A passer-by discovered the body of the unidentified man, in his 40s, near a parking area of the hospital in the vicinity of East Gun Hill Road and Webster Avenue at 6:50 a.m.

Police were awaiting the results of toxicology tests to determine the cause of death.

BROOKLYN

* A UPS employee was arrested for cutting a co-worker with a folding knife on a subway train in Canarsie, authorities said yesterday.

The incident began at 3:30 a.m. on April 5, when Charley Young, 46, greeted his 22-year-old co-worker on an L train near the East 105th Street station, sources said.

But the greeting was met with hostility and the two began arguing.

Suddenly, Young pulled a folding knife, put it to his co-worker’s face and threatened to slash him, sources said.

The two got off at East 105th Street, and someone alerted the victim that his cheek was bleeding.

Young was charged with assault and menacing.

* A gunman shot a man who then dashed into a Bushwick subway station and called for help, police sources said yesterday.

The attack took place at 11 p.m. Wednesday, when an unidentified gunman shot the 25-year-old victim in the buttocks at Hancock Street and Evergreen Avenue.

The wounded man ran into the Halsey Street subway station and summoned assistance.

When cops arrived, the victim told them he didn’t know who shot him.

He was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

STATEN ISLAND

* A reckless motorcyclist was arrested after ignoring police orders to pull over and then zipping through two neighborhoods at more than 100 mph, authorities said yesterday.

Police saw Kirk Dudley, 34, riding what they thought was a stolen motorcycle in Willowbrook at 8:52 p.m. Wednesday, sources said.

The motorcycle matched the description of one that had been reported stolen, so cops tried to pull him over.

Dudley sped away, and police pursued him for several miles and caught him on Western Avenue in Mariners Harbor, sources said.

He was charged with reckless endangerment and reckless driving.

* Two hookers were arrested yesterday as they tried to solicit johns on a Stapleton street, authorities said.

Police caught Kristy Holmes, 31, and Maryann Francis, 26, trying to entice two motorists and three passers-by on Tompkins Avenue at 2:09 a.m., sources said.

* A thief was busted after an Arlington department-store worker spotted him shoplifting, authorities said yesterday.

The employee saw Iago Gogoladze, 29, grab pants, shirts and trunks and try to leave without paying at a Kohl’s outlet on Forest Avenue at 7:41 p.m. Wednesday, sources said.

He was charged with petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.