MANHATTAN

* This is the dapper hood (above) who tried to hold up two Upper East Side banks in less than an hour Tuesday, according to authorities.

The neatly dressed crook passed a note to a teller, who gave him $90 at an HSBC branch on Madison Avenue and 89th Street at 11:43 a.m.

About 50 minutes earlier, he’d been even less successful. He tried to rob a Chase branch at 86th Street and Second Avenue, but left empty handed.

Surveillance photos show the man – believed to be in his 50s – clad in a stylish tweed cap and a gray-green barn jacket.

* An argument between two homeless men in Chelsea yesterday turned violent when one of the men stabbed the other in the back, cops said.

The bloodshed occurred at 10:45 a.m. on the corner of West 25th Street and Ninth Avenue.

Clyde Kuemmerle, the soup-kitchen coordinator at Church of the Holy Apostles on West 28th Street near Ninth Avenue, said the men had a history of trouble.

“It started a long time ago,” said Kuemmerle.

“A woman was here with a new partner, and an old partner saw them together. It was just troublesome because the old partner just wouldn’t let it go,” Kuemmerle said, adding that the jilted lover harassed the couple as they sat near the church altar.

The victim was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital in stable condition.

* Two thugs beat and stabbed a 23-year-old man on an Upper West Side street, police sources said yesterday.

The victim was walking along West 108th Street with a friend when several men jumped him.

He was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he was treated for wounds to his arm, chest and back. He was reported in stable condition. His attackers fled on foot.

BROOKLYN

* A mystery gunman shot and wounded a man on a Crown Heights street, police said yesterday.

The victim, 40, was standing on Prospect Place at about 3:50 p.m. Tuesday when a man walked up to him and shot him in the knee, cops said.

He was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition, police said.

* A Queens man is facing an assault rap for attacking his former girlfriend inside her East New York home, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.

Joseph Walls, 39, allegedly forced his way into the woman’s third-floor apartment on Pennsylvania Avenue, refused to leave and punched the woman in the jaw in front of their children, sources said.

Walls was charged with assault in the third degree, authorities said. Charges also were filed against the woman.

QUEENS

* Two thugs stabbed and handcuffed a Jamaica man as they robbed his home, police said yesterday.

When the victim, who was attacked Monday afternoon in his Guy R. Brewer Boulevard home, refused to tell the thieves where his money was, they stabbed him in the head with a kitchen knife and handcuffed him.

It was only after he was knifed that the victim told his assailants where they could find his money, law-enforcement sources said.

The victim was taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital in stable condition.

* A city transit authority employee was arrested for falsely reporting his car stolen in an attempt to get it back from a friend he lent it to, law enforcement sources said yesterday.

After Brian McEvilley filed the report, cops tracked the car to Crown Heights using lo-jack, law enforcement sources said.

When they found the vehicle, a friend of McEvilley’s told them he had borrowed the car, the sources said.

McEvilley then ‘fessed up, admitting he had lent the car to his friend and that his pal didn’t want to return it. McEvilley is charged with filing a false police report. (m, s)

THE BRONX

* A 45-year-old woman crossing a Tremont street lost a leg after being mowed down by a car yesterday, police said.

The unidentified woman was crossing the street at the intersection of East Tremont and Arthur Avenues when a car came barreling through at 2 p.m., hitting and seriously injuring the woman, cops said.

The driver got out and ran off, while his girlfriend was picked up at the scene.

The woman was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital where doctors had to amputate one of her legs, sources said.

When he is caught, the driver faces felony charges of leaving the scene of an accident. (lcf)

* A 39-year-old man was stabbed inside his friend’s Fordham apartment building, police sources said yesterday.

The victim was stabbed twice in the Jerome Avenue building when he opened the apartment door after hearing someone in the hallway yelling for help at 3:50 a.m. Tuesday.

The victim was wounded in the back and under his left armpit on the second floor landing outside his friend’s door.

The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition.

* The November death of a Mount Hope infant has been ruled a homicide, police said yesterday.

Six-month-old Emani Romero was found unconscious inside her 1985 Webster Ave. home at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 30 and was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she died.

A spokeswoman for the Medical Examiner’s Office said the child died after a seizure. The Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the baby’s death a homicide because it said she received insufficient treatment for the seizure disorder that killed her.

STATEN ISLAND

* A counselor for the Department of Juvenile Justice was arrested last night for stabbing her live-in boyfriend in the shoulder during a fight at their West Brighton home, cops said.

Stephanie Williams, 41, and her boyfriend got into an argument at their Elizabeth Street house, which escalated into bloodshed when she stabbed him in his left shoulder at 7:30 p.m., police said.

The unidentified man was rushed to St. Vincent’s Hospital where he was treated for his injury and released.

Williams was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon. (lcf)

* A thief robbed a Graniteville bank yesterday, police said.

The suspect walked into the Staten Island Savings Bank at 1631 Forest Ave. at 1:58 p.m. and slipped a demand note to a teller.

The teller complied, and the robber fled with an undetermined amount of cash.