MANHATTAN (lcf)

* An unidentified man was shot yesterday behind a Harlem apartment building, police said.

The victim, whose age and name were withheld, was hit in the thigh in the back of the Malcolm X Boulevard building at West 139th Street about 7:40 p.m. He was rushed to Harlem Hospital in stable condition. Police said he was not cooperating with investigators.

THE BRONX

* A member of the Bloods gang was arrested on drug and weapons charges after police executed a search warrant at his Belmont apartment, authorities said yesterday.

Christopher Vasquez, 21, was grabbed by Bronx gang-squad cops at about 6:50 a.m. Thursday after Emergency Service Unit officers broke down the door of his apartment at East 187th Street and caught him flushing heroin down the toilet, sources said.

Cops recovered a revolver with three rounds in it, 26 bags of what appeared to be crack cocaine, seven glassine envelopes of heroin, 15 bags of marijuana and more than $420 in cash, the sources said.

STATEN ISLAND

* A young man who had been drinking drowned in a swimming pool early yesterday during a party at a Prince’s Bay residence, authorities said.

The body of Jesus Neri, 21, was discovered at about 2:44 a.m., floating in the pool’s deep end behind a home on Woodvale Avenue near Woodvale Loop, police said.

Cops said that he appeared to be intoxicated and that his death was accidental.

BROOKLYN

* A young man was shot dead yesterday in a Bedford-Stuyvesant park. Police did not know what sparked the violence, which occurred about 7:05 p.m. in Frederick Douglas Park on Lafayette Avenue.

The name of the victim, 20, was withheld pending family notification. (lcf)

* A Fort Greene man who molested a woman at a Boerum Hill shelter was beaten by two men acquainted with the victim’s cousin, authorities said yesterday.

The trouble began at about 5 p.m. Wednesday, when Bobby Charles, 25 followed the 24-year-old woman to a pay phone outside the shelter where they live on Bond Street, sources said.

Charles allegedly put his hands up her shirt and fondled her breasts, then shoved his hands down her pants.

As she pleaded for him to stop and tried to push him away, Charles allegedly continued to grope her and asked to have sex with her.

After the woman got away, she returned to the shelter in tears and told her cousin, who informed Ishmael Batista, 27, and Richard Vargas, 22, according to the sources.

The next day, Batista and Vargas allegedly confronted Charles at the shelter and then slugged him in the face and torso.

Charles flagged down a cop, who arrested him on forcible-touching and harassment charges.

Batista and Vargas were each busted on assault and menacing raps.

* A burglar who swiped $18,000 from a Midwood carpet store was arrested after police matched DNA from blood at the crime scene to that on the suspect’s cigarette, authorities said yesterday.

The incident began at about 6 p.m. on May 25, 2005, when Michael Romano, 40, allegedly used a crowbar to pry open the warehouse door of the VM International Carpet Co. on McDonald Avenue near Avenue J, sources said.

Romano then allegedly forced open a door leading from the warehouse to the showroom, where he broke into a locked closet and swiped the loot.

The store owner notified police the next day, and cops reviewed surveillance tapes showing a 1986 Chevy van parked outside the store around the time of the theft.

Police traced the van to Romano, who once worked for the company, after the store owner gave a description of his vehicle, the sources said.

Cops also found two blood samples at the scene and later recovered one of Romano’s discarded cigarettes.

Police matched the blood samples with DNA taken from the cigarette and arrested Romano Thursday.

He was charged with criminal trespass, burglary and grand larceny.

Authorities could not immediately say why the process took so long.

* A drunken young man died early yesterday after he lost his balance and fell down a flight of stairs in a Kensington building, police said.

The 20-year-old victim, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was found unconscious at about 2:25 a.m. at the bottom of a staircase in the McDonald Avenue building near Avenue F, cops said.

He died later at Maimonides Hospital.

* A man was shot as he walked on a Bushwick street, authorities said yesterday.

The 38-year-old victim was walking on Knickerbocker Avenue near Suydam Street at about 2:50 a.m. Thursday when he felt a sharp pain in his hand after a mystery gunman opened fire.

It was unclear what sparked the gunfire or if the wounded man was the target.

He was treated at Wyckoff Heights Hospital.

QUEENS

* A Bronx man was arrested for beating a co-worker with a metal rod in the South Jamaica factory where they work, authorities said yesterday.

The attack occurred at about 8 a.m. Thursday, when Pedro Armando, 30, allegedly whacked the 39-year-old victim in the stomach as they worked in the building on 159th Street near 111th Avenue.

It was unclear what sparked the violence, but Armando was arrested on charges of assault and harassment, according to a spokeswoman for District Attorney Richard Brown.

The victim suffered injuries that were not considered life-threatening.

* A motorcyclist was killed yesterday after he smashed into a divider on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Elmhurst, police said.

Mahmod Hamdan, 31, was riding south along the highway at Roosevelt Avenue at about 3:20 a.m. when the accident happened.