BROOKLYN

* A 4-year-old boy was injured yesterday by a car that struck him when he darted into a Flatlands street, police said.

The child, whose name was withheld, was injured on East 52nd Street and Avenue T about 11:50 a.m., cops said.

He was rushed to Coney Island Hospital in stable condition.

The driver remained at the scene and was not charged. (lcf)

* Three masked thugs shot a man to death and beat his girlfriend yesterday during an attempted robbery in a Fort Greene housing project, police said.

The trio followed Baramus Temple, 27, into his girlfriend’s Cumberland Walk apartment at about 4:30 a.m., cops said. At least one assailant pulled a gun and shot Temple in the chest.

The suspects then demanded cash from his girlfriend while beating her, but fled empty-handed.

Temple, who sources said had a police record, was rushed to Brooklyn Hospital, where he died.

* Two men have been arrested for robbing a newspaper reporter at gunpoint in East New York, authorities said yesterday.

The 30-year-old Newsday reporter was mugged just before 1 a.m. last Sept. 29 while chatting on his cellphone on Williams Place near Herkimer Street, sources said.

Messiah Oakley, 18, and Corey Hinds, 21, confronted the journalist, and Hinds trained a gun on him, the sources said.

After Hinds allegedly swiped the cellphone, he pressed the gun barrel against the victim’s cheek and said, “This is for real.”

When Hinds demanded his wallet, the victim insisted that he didn’t have one and identified himself as a reporter.

Hinds then allegedly rifled through the victim’s pockets and took out $22, car keys, a press pass and an ATM card.

The suspects fled.

Hinds was arrested April 4 and Oakley last Thursday.

Both men, whom the victim picked out of photos, were charged with robbery.

* An apparently homeless woman was arrested after exposing herself to a cop in Coney Island, authorities said yesterday.

The cop was in a police car on Mermaid Avenue near West 15th Street at about 6 p.m. Thursday when he spotted Willia Alston, 42, holding an open beer bottle, sources said.

The officer got out and ordered Alston off the road and onto the sidewalk. When the cop returned to his patrol car, Alston allegedly moved off the sidewalk, exposed her buttocks and made a nasty remark.

Then she allegedly lay down in the street and blocked traffic.

She was charged with consumption of alcohol in public, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and exposing herself.

QUEENS

* A suspect has been arrested in the carjack beating of a livery driver in Woodhaven, authorities said yesterday.

The violence began at about 2:30 a.m. on July 10, when suspect Julio Galarraga, 24, and two accomplices allegedly pulled the 24-year-old driver out of his 1995 Lincoln at 85th Street and Atlantic Avenue said.

The trio allegedly punched and kicked the driver in the head and body while he was on the ground.

One of the accomplices got behind the wheel of the Lincoln and sped away, sources said.

As Galarraga fled in a blue Chevrolet Lumina, he hit the cabdriver in the leg with the front bumper, the sources said.

The other accomplice also got away.

The injured man suffered a knee injury.

Cops tracked down Galarraga the next day, and he was charged with robbery, said a spokeswoman for District Attorney Richard Brown.

* A teen was arrested for pummeling an Internet cafe owner in the Elmhurst shop, authorities said yesterday.

George Campo, 16, and five accomplices confronted the 63-year-old victim in the Inet Cafe on Woodside Avenue near 78th Street at about 9 a.m. June 24, sources said.

Campo then allegedly slugged the man in the face.

As the thugs left, one of them hurled a garbage can at the front door, shattering the glass and cutting the owner’s arms with flying debris.

Campo was arrested July 11 on charges of assault and criminal mischief, said DA Brown’s spokeswoman.

The accomplices are still at large.

THE BRONX

* A man found his brother dead of an apparent drug overdose in the victim’s Melrose apartment, authorities said yesterday.

Hector Cruz, 44, was found unconscious in a bathroom in the East 155th Street apartment near Elton Avenue at about 7:40 p.m. Friday, cops said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.