MANHATTAN

* A thief walked into a Murray Hill bank yesterday, slipped a note demanding money to a teller and escaped with $1,100, police said. The robbery occurred about 11:50 a.m. at a Greenpoint Bank branch on East 34th Street near Second Avenue.

* An Ohio man was found dead in an Upper East Side building after he left a friend’s home to smoke a cigarette, cops said yesterday.

The body of Max Flores, 58, was discovered in a 10th-floor stairwell Sunday at around 2:30 p.m. on Third Avenue near East 81st Street.

Police were trying to determine how he died, but said they suspect it was from natural causes.

BROOKLYN

* Police are investigating whether the same thief robbed one Brooklyn bank yesterday and tried to steal money from another.

In the attempted robbery, the thief walked into a Chase bank branch at around 10:30 a.m. on Fulton Street near New York Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant and passed the teller a note demanding money. He noticed the teller pushing a “Panic” button and fled empty handed.

About an hour later, a man police said may have been the same robber did the same thing at an HSBC branch on Hanson Place near Saint Felix St. in Fort Greene, and escaped with $1,995.

The thief was described as a thin black man, about 6 feet, wearing a black jacket and a baseball cap.

* A 23-year-old Long Island man was almost killed yesterday by three thugs who assaulted him in Cypress Hills.

The violence erupted about 4:30 a.m. on the corner of Jerome and Fulton streets where the three assailants got into an argument with Nelson Rajkeshwar of Valley Stream and two of his friends.

It escalated into a physical fight, and the victim, was taken to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition with head injuries. Cops were looking for the man’s attackers.

* A 3-week-old girl died after she stopped breathing and was found unconscious in her family’s Flatbush apartment, police said yesterday.

The baby, whose name was not released, was discovered by her parents Sunday at around 10:30 a.m. in the apartment at Ocean Avenue near Foster Avenue.

As a taxi was bringing the baby to Caledonian Hospital, her parents made the driver stop, for reasons that were not immediately clear. The parents called EMS and the girl was rushed to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The death has not been ruled suspicious.

* An anti-Semitic note was slipped under the front door of a Jewish man’s Flatbush apartment yesterday, and cops are investigating it as a possible bias incident. The 62-year-old man, whose name was not released, discovered the handwritten note around 11 a.m. Police would not say if the letter was signed.

* A 77-year-old woman was killed in a fire in her Flatbush apartment yesterday. The blaze erupted at around 2:30 a.m. in a six-story building on East 17th Street near Avenue N and spread to the top floor apartment of Anne Shorten. She was taken to New York Hospital’s burn center, where she was pronounced dead.

Nine firefighters were treated at Kings County Hospital for minor injuries. Investigators were trying to determine the cause of the blaze, which was brought under control at 3 a.m.

QUEENS

* The body of a 61-year-old man was found yesterday by a subway worker cleaning an E train at its last stop, Jamaica Center. Police did not immediately know the cause of death, but said the body bore no visible signs of violence. The man’s name was withheld pending notification of kin.

* A supervisor for a private bus company was busted yesterday for selling seven bags of cocaine, said Sgt. Paul O’Donnell of the 102nd Precinct.

Dennis Arango, 51, was nabbed at around 5:30 p.m. in Kew Gardens. His alleged customer, James Stefanatos, 33, was also arrested. Arango, who works for Green Bus Lines, was charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance and criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Stefanatos was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance. (lcf)