Manhattan

Police are hunting for the man pictured above, who raped a woman in the elevator of an East Harlem building.

The 34-year-old New Jersey woman, who works in the East 105th Street building as a baby-sitter, held the elevator door open for the suspect at 7 a.m. Wednesday, police said.

He raped her at knifepoint inside the elevator, police said.

The suspect is described as in his 20s, between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-10 with a slim build. He was wearing a black bubble coat with a hood.

Staten Island

A man with hopes of joining the NYPD was arrested on drug and gun charges after he was caught driving on the wrong side of the road in Fox Hills, authorities said yesterday.

Cody Concepcion, 21, parked his Maxima on the wrong side of the street at Hardy and Prince streets Thursday afternoon. When cops approached, Concepcion drove off and was soon stopped.

He allegedly had several prescription drugs near the front seat and 11 small bags of marijuana in the trunk.

Concepcion allegedly told police that he was planning on entering the Police Academy in the spring and asked, “Is there anything you can do for me?”

He also revealed he was holding a friend’s gun in his home. The cops then retrieved the gun from the suspect’s Warren Street apartment.

It was not immediately known why he told police about the gun.

Concepcion was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

An off-duty firefighter was collared for driving drunk in Fresh Kills, authorities said yesterday.

Cops spotted Robert Longo, 23, zipping by them in a silver 2002 Mitsubishi on the West Shore Expressway at 1:49 a.m., law-enforcement sources said.

Longo was allegedly driving 100 mph before he was pulled over at the Muldoon Avenue exit ramp.

An FDNY spokesman said Longo is assigned to Engine 234 in Brooklyn.

He is charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, reckless driving and operating a vehicle while impaired, a Donovan spokesman said.

A carload of teens out on the town for a birthday celebration was nabbed for drug possession in Westerleigh when cops pulled them over for illegal window tints, authorities said yesterday.

Tonianne Carlino, 18, Anthony Cioffoletti, 19, Jason Ferguson, 18, and Austin Moss, 19, were driving near North Gannon Avenue and Willowbrook Road at around midnight Thursday when a plainclothes officer pulled them over, sources said.

When Moss, who was driving, rolled down the window, the cop saw a bag with 27 Xanax pills sitting in the center console.

After the officer ordered everyone out of the car, he discovered that Cioffoletti had three more pills in his pocket and Carlino had pot wrapped in a $20 bill, sources said.

“It’s my birthday. Leave me alone,” Cioffoletti protested to the cop. “We’re going to have a party.”

The “party” was moved behind bars as the celebrants were charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal possession of marijuana.

A thief posing as a FedEx delivery worker and two teenagers attempted to break into a Pleasant Plains home, police said.

Harold Johnson, 55, Rayson Smith, 19, and Quentel Leigh, 17, tried to push their way into a home at Englewood Avenue after the homeowner opened the door, police said. Johnson was wearing a FedEx uniform.

The homeowner managed to keep the suspects out of his house and called police.

They were later pulled over in a white van filled with FedEx uniforms.

One of the suspects also tossed a loaded gun from the van, which was later recovered.

Brooklyn

Police are asking for the public’s help to find the Brownsville teenager pictured above, who went missing last week.

Chaniel Palmer, 16, left her home at Legion Street and Blake Avenue at 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 23 headed to Erasmus Hall HS.

She stands 5 feet tall and weighs 169 pounds. She was wearing gray pants, a gray jacket and white shoes.

An elderly woman was found dead in the waters off Coney Island yesterday, cops said.

The 70-year-old woman was discovered at 12:20 p.m. in the ocean near the Boardwalk and Stillwell Avenue.

There were no signs of trauma, but the medical examiner will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

A man was shot in broad daylight on a Flatbush street corner, authorities said yesterday.

The unidentified victim took two slugs to the stomach at Beverly Road and Nostrand Avenue just after 10 a.m. Thursday and stumbled into a nearby store, where an employee called 911.

The victim was taken to Kings County hospital, but his condition was not immediately revealed.

Tatiana Deligiannakis, Tom Liddy and Erika Martinez