THE BRONX

*** Two girls disappeared in separate incidents Friday afternoon in the Melrose section, cops said yesterday.

Tamika Harris, 16, vanished at 1:30 after she was last seen at 500 Courtlandt Ave. She is 5-feet-4, 140 pounds and was wearing a short, blue jacket with a fur collar, blue jeans, blue and white sneakers and a white T-shirt. She was in poor mental health.

About 90 minutes later, and about a half mile northeast of that first disappearance, Shanice Pothemont, 11, who is 4-feet-10 and 125 pounds, disappeared while in front of 890 Cauldwell Ave. Police said she was wearing a black North Face jacket, a gray pullover sweater, blue jeans and beige boots. She is in good physical and mental condition.

QUEENS

*** Shots were fired in the Queens Village section early yesterday after a cop stopped a speeding driver, police said.

The driver was pulled over at Hempstead Avenue and 218th Street shortly before 5:30 a.m. when a cop conducting radar checks determined the car was speeding south on the Cross Island Parkway, police said.

Police said it was not immediately clear if the officer and the driver exchanged gun shots or if only one of them fired a weapon, but several shots rang out before the driver ran. Police did not identify a suspect or the officer.

MANHATTAN

**** Harbor cops retrieved the body of a man believed to be between 35 and 45 years old from the Hudson River off West 30th Street and 12th Avenue at 1:40 p.m. yesterday, police said. A medical examiner will conduct an autopsy.

*** A bank robber escaped from an Upper West Side bank yesterday with an undetermined amount of money, cops said.

The robber passed a threatening note demanding money to a teller at a Commerce Bank branch, at 2109 Broadway at 11:25 a.m., and fled after the teller complied.

*** Two men were assaulted in the Chelsea section early yesterday in an anti-gay attack, police said.

The victims, whose names were not released, were attacked at 2:20 a.m. at West 17th Street and Ninth Avenue, police said. Four men allegedly approached the victims and uttered anti-gay remarks before assaulting them, police said.