Manhattan

* This note-passing bandit (pictured) held up an HSBC branch on Madison Avenue near East 78th Street at 9 a.m. Friday, and got away with just under $2,000, police said.

Brooklyn

* A bandit was busted after he tried to sneak $65 worth of baby formula out of a Bushwick Rite Aid and threw a tantrum, authorities said yesterday.

Just after noon on Sunday, two of the store’s employees saw Juan Laureano, 20, who lived nearby, on Knickerbocker Avenue and Stockholm Street, stuff two large cans of Enfamil into his jacket and a smaller one into his pants, officials said.

When the manager tried to keep him from leaving, Laureano said he would pay. But then he allegedly flew into a rage, trying to punch and kick the manager and another worker.

In the melee, Laureano smashed the pharmacy’s sliding glass doors. He was nabbed by cops and charged with attempted assault and petit larceny, sources said.

* An upstate teen was arrested after slashing her ex-boyfriend in the face during a breakup in his Coney Island apartment building, officials said.

When the man tried to cut ties in the elevator of his West 28th Street building on Saturday at 6:15 p.m., an enraged Xiomara Colas, 17, of Kingston slashed him with a razor, sources said.

The ex, who was treated at Coney Island Hospital, was left with a four-to-six-inch gash on his face that required numerous stitches, authorities said.

Colas, who was busted about 20 minutes later at the Stillwell Avenue subway station, faces charges including assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

* Police are searching for three men who robbed a man at gunpoint in Sheepshead Bay.

The 46-year-old victim was walking along Avenue W on Sunday night when he was attacked, cops said.

The victim was listed as being in stable condition last night at the Lutheran Medical Center.

* A group of thugs held up a Bedford-Stuyvesant fried-chicken shop, authorities said.

Four bandits, armed with a gun, invaded the store on Throop Avenue near Whipple Street on Sunday night, cops said.

Two jumped over the counter and took an undetermined amount of money from the register. They left their gun behind.

* An East Flatbush man was arrested for swinging a machete at his roommate, police said.

Eric Charles, 38, allegedly tried hacking his roommate in their East 56th Street apartment Sunday night , cops said.

The injured man called 911, and Charles was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

Staten Island

* Four people were busted for stashing a loaded gun and a variety of drugs in a candle shop in Sunnyside, investigators said.

Cops executing a search warrant for Candles of Elegance on Manor Road last Friday found a loaded gun, a bag filled with crack, a grinder with marijuana residue and cocaine, sources said.

Nancy Cafaro, 47, Alicia Ferlazzo, 40, Charlie Smith, 58, and Sandra Thorpe, 43, were charged with criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a controlled substance, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.

Cops also arrested James Gilhoohy during the search for standing in the doorway to block them from entering the store.

* A man was arrested for drunken driving and speeding in Westerleigh, authorities said.

Victor Cubero, 47, of Brooklyn was allegedly driving a 1992 BMW at 97 mph in a 50-mph zone on the Staten Island Expressway early Saturday.

Cubero also failed a Breathalyzer test, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

Queens

* A bodega clerk was shot in the leg last night by one of three gunman who strode into the D&C Mini Mart on Farmers Boulevard at 9 p.m. and demanded cash.

The bandits fled with an unknown amount of cash. The clerk was taken to Jamaica hospital in stable condition.

* Police arrested a young Astoria man for punching a teen while two accomplices stabbed him, investigators said.

Tyreik Jackson, 20, repeatedly punched the 15-year-old victim, whose name was withheld, last Friday at Fourth Street and Astoria Boulevard, cops said.

The two other men then held him down, stabbed him three times in the stomach and took off, cops said.

He was listed as being in stable condition last night at a local hospital.

Jackson also was linked to a baseball-bat attack on another teen in the area last August, sources said.

Jackson was charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon, said a spokeswoman for District Attorney Richard Brown.

* Andre Jones (pictured), 39, is suspected of fatally stabbing his cousin’s boyfriend on a Hollis street last Saturday night. The victim, Jackie Halsey. died at Mary Immaculate Hospital.

* A teen was arrested for robbing two women at knifepoint in Springfield Gardens, law-enforcement officials said.

Bobby Charles, 18, held a knife to a 51-year-old woman’s throat and threatened to kill her at 130th Avenue near 218th Street at about 6 p.m. last Thursday, cops said.

He allegedly took her handbag, containing $47.

Moments later, he confronted a 34-year-old woman on the same block and pulled out the knife, cops said. He also is accused of taking her keys and $60.

Cops believe that Charles broke into two homes in Rosedale and St. Albans on Feb. 22, sources said.

He was charged with burglary, robbery, and criminal possession of a weapon, DA Richard Brown’s spokeswoman said.