Queens

* Cops are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a man who tried to rob a Forest Hills bank.

The would-be bandit walked into a Chase branch on Queens Boulevard at 5 p.m. on Monday and slipped a teller a note demanding cash.

The bank employee ignored the note and the hapless hoodlum fled empty-handed.

The suspect is a black man in his 20s, about 5-foot-11, weighing 160 to 175 pounds.

He was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, black jeans, tan shoes and a black knit hat.

* A bank teller was busted for stealing more than $6,000 from the Rockaway Park financial institution where he worked, authorities said yesterday.

The manager of the North Fork branch on Rockaway Boulevard learned of the thievery when employee Daniel Lucas, 21, turned in his cash drawer on Monday, law-enforcement sources said.

The till was short $6,200 and when his boss asked him about the shortfall, Lucas said he gave the money to a friend in need.

Lucas is charged with grand larceny, according to a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown.

* A man was arrested after striking his wife’s baby in their Flushing apartment yesterday, police said.

The unidentified woman saw Charles Pedler, 32, hit her 9-month-old son in the leg in their Parsons Boulevard apartment in the Pomonok Houses shortly after 1 p.m., cops said.

The mother immediately called police, who arrested Pedler and notified the Administration for Children’s Services.

The tot was treated and released at Queens General Hospital, police said.

* A livery-cab driver was arrested after he pulled a gun during a fight in Corona, authorities said yesterday.

Jerry Santiago, 29, allegedly pulled a pistol on a man with whom he was arguing on 103rd Street near 31st Avenue at 11:l5 a.m. Wednesday, law-enforcement sources said.

Cops rolled up on the scene and watched Santiago throw a defaced .38-caliber revolver on the ground while his adversary ran away, authorities said.

The serial numbers were scratched off the gun, which was loaded with five bullets, the sources said.

Santiago, of The Bronx, is charged with three counts of weapons possession, the DA’s spokeswoman said.

Manhattan

* Police yesterday identified the man found dead inside his dilapidated East Harlem building Thursday.

Thomas Santiago, 61, was discovered in his fourth-floor apartment on Lexington Avenue near East 117th Street after concerned family members called cops and asked them to check in on him because they hadn’t heard from him in several days, authorities said.

Santiago’s building was condemned by the Buildings Department after his corpse was found.

The cause and manner of Santiago’s death will be determined by the Medical Examiner’s Office.

Brooklyn

* A city Emergency Medical Service technician was collared for harassing and stalking his ex-girlfriend in East Williamsburg, police said yesterday.

Carey Henry, 29, was picked up at EMS Station 49 in Queens at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, law enforcement sources said.

Henry, who has been with the FDNY for a little over a year, allegedly showed up at his 21-year-old former flame’s work holiday party uninvited and repeatedly walked past her and bumped into her while she danced with a co-worker, police sources said.

With that, the woman, also an EMT, asked a friend to take her home only to have Henry follow her home, where he screamed, cursed and threatened her, law-enforcement sources said.

When the victim reported the incident to authorities on Dec. 17, she told them that Henry assaulted her in the past and harassed her by telephone, police sources said.

Henry is charged with harassment, stalking and two counts of menacing, authorities said.

An FDNY spokesman said the department is investigating the matter.

Staten Island

* A Brooklyn man was busted for breaking into a car and stealing a man’s wallet in Tottenville, authorities said yesterday.

Terry Holcombe, 21, was arrested at the Tottenville Staten Island Railway station at 11:38 p.m. Thursday, law-enforcement sources said.

About 30 minutes earlier, Holcombe smashed a window of a 2006 Black Hummer H2 parked opposite Gentile’s Restaurant on Arthur Kill Road and swiped a man’s wallet containing credit cards, authorities said.

He is charged with grand larceny, petit larceny, criminal mischief and two counts of criminal possession of stolen property, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

* A motorist was nabbed for drunken driving after he was pulled over for speeding on the Staten Island Expressway early yesterday, authorities said yesterday.

Gene Sankin, 27, was zipping along at 91 mph in a 50 mph zone before he was stopped on the expressway near Targee Street at 3:10 a.m., law enforcement sources said.

When a highway cop approached the 2006 Nissan, he noticed Sankin’s bloodshot eyes, flushed face and boozy breath, authorities said.

A Breathalyzer test revealed that Sankin’s blood alcohol content was over the legal limit at .087, the sources said.

Sankin is charged with two counts of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle while impaired.