Queens

* A 40-year-old man was arrested for beating a 9-year-old boy with a wooden cane in the man’s home in Corona, police said yesterday.

Alberto Torres, 40, allegedly hit the child, whose relationship to him remains unknown, in his apartment on 95th Street near 37th Avenue just before 8 p.m. last Monday, sources said.

The boy suffered cuts above the left eye and below the right eye and bruises to the chest, according to court papers.

* A 25-year-old man was busted for punching a stranger in the face in Flushing, cops said.

Manuel Vargas-Ramirez hit Weiqiang Lin, 46, during a confrontation on Delong Street near 41st Avenue shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday, sources said.

Vargas-Ramirez was charged with assault and harassment, said a spokesman for DA Richard Brown.

* Some three weeks after an 18-year-old man was beaten and robbed on a Forest Hills street, cops say they’ve caught up with the two men responsible.

Henry Alphonso, 21 and Arthur Barton, 20, grabbed the unidentified teen as he walked at 71st Avenue and Austin Street at 7 p.m. on Dec. 4, sources said.

Barton swiped a video game from the victim, then punched him in the face and threatened to slash him, the sources added.

Cops arrested the duo Wednesday.

Staten Island

* A driver and his five passengers were taken into custody after cops found a loaded gun in their car in Port Richmond, police said.

The arresting officers had been investigating a reported shooting when they discovered the car on Hatfield Place and Port Richmond Avenue at 4 a.m. Thursday.

The officers reported that they questioned the occupants, searched the vehicle, and found a loaded .32-caliber handgun and five spent shell casings in the glove compartment. Passenger Basil Joseph, 19, explained he “had words with another guy . . . went outside and let three rounds off,” court papers revealed.

Meanwhile, a small package of cocaine was found in a pocket on passenger Johnny Mitchell, sources said. Joseph and Mitchell were arrested, as were driver Robert Browning and passengers Christopher Johnson, Xavier Martin and Oraine Pringle, each 19, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

Bronx

* A thief was busted after trying to pull off robberies at a Morris Heights bank and a supermarket, police said yesterday.

John Bowens, 37, passed a teller a demand note at the Chase branch at West Burnside and Jerome avenues Wednesday afternoon, cops said.

The teller gave Bowens a stack of cash, sources said.

Several blocks away on Jerome Avenue, he ducked into Pioneer Supermarket, where he allegedly tried grabbing money from a register, cops said, and was caught there.

* A man was shot on a Morrisania street yesterday afternoon, authorities said.

The unidentified victim was wounded shortly before 4 p.m., sources said, and taken to St. Barnabas Hospital.