BROOKLYN

* An East New York woman told cops she was raped at knifepoint by two thugs during a nightmarish car ride, sources said yesterday.

The 27-year-old woman said she left her home on Hemlock Street at about 11:30 p.m. Friday and was approached by two unidentified men, who grabbed her from behind.

They allegedly put an object to her back, dragged her into a tan-colored Dodge Stratus, and forced her into the back seat.

One of the men then put a knife to her face and raped her while his accomplice was driving, possibly along the Jackie Robinson Parkway, the victim told authorities.

She was then taken back to her home and let go, but not before the thugs threatened to harm her if she went to police, sources said.

* A woman was arrested after her son’s principal saw bruises on his face, authorities said yesterday.

Police sources said that on Friday, the 10-year-old boy went to his school, which was not identified, where the principal spotted the bruises on his left eye, law-enforcement sources said.

When the principal questioned him, the boy said his mother had beaten him with a belt in their home near the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Thursday.

School officials reported the alleged beating, and the boy’s mother, Shanyai Alfrod, 31, was charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

* A 24-year-old suspect who went on the lam after fatally shooting a man in Williamsburg last month was caught yesterday in Minnesota, police said.

Aureliano Cruz was grabbed by police in Minneapolis and brought back yesterday to Brooklyn, where he faces charges of murder and weapons possession.

On Feb. 4, Cruz fatally shot Mauricio Ramirez, 20, after Ramirez stepped out of a store. (lcf)

MANHATTAN

* An 82-year-old woman with medical problems apparently leaped to her death from her 11th-floor Lower East Side apartment, cops said yesterday.

It was not clear if her home health-care attendant was in the apartment at 417 Grand St. at the time, 6 a.m. Saturday.

The woman, whose name was withheld, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police sources said no suicide note was discovered.

* A 2-month-old girl died after she was found unconscious in her family’s East Village home yesterday, police said.

The baby, whose name was withheld, had been put to bed by her parents in their Avenue D apartment in the early-morning hours, sources said.

When the father went to check on her, she was not breathing.

He called 911, and the infant was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where she died.

Police said there were no apparent signs of trauma to the body.

* Cops yesterday were investigating an apparent bias incident in which a swastika was scrawled on an electrical conduit in a Chinatown subway station.

The Nazi hate symbol was drawn with a black marker in the D line’s Grand Street station at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday.

THE BRONX

* Police yesterday identified a Virginia woman who was shot dead in a car in Mott Haven by a gunman who wounded two others.

Yvette Olmeda-Salamanca, 34, of Hampton, and two men, ages 21 and 23, were sitting in the vehicle at East 137th Street near St. Ann’s Place at about 6:08 p.m. Saturday, when an unidentified man approached, pulled a gun, and opened fire, cops said.

Olmeda-Salamanca was hit several times, and the men were struck in their arms, sources said.

All of the victims were rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where Olmeda-Salamanca died.

The wounded men, whose names were withheld, were in stable condition.

* A 25-year-old man was found stabbed to death early yesterday on a Parkchester street, cops said.

Police found Milton Joseph with a stab wound to the chest on St. Lawrence Avenue near Mansion Street at about 1:45 a.m.

Authorities do not know the motive for the attack.

Police sources said Joseph had been arrested for narcotics, in 2002.