MANHATTAN

*** Police yesterday were searching for a man who tried to rob an East Harlem bank last week.

Damon Cypress (above), 29, walked into the Ponce De Leon Bank at 1925 Third Ave. at 4:05 p.m. Friday and slipped a note demanding money to a teller, cops said.

He then fled, empty-handed.

Cypress was described as a 5-foot, 180-pound black man. He was last seen wearing a black coat.

BROOKLYN

*** A 15-year-old boy was arrested yesterday after he was caught carrying a loaded gun inside his high school, police said.

The teenager, whose name was withheld because of his age, was busted with a .32 caliber pistol inside Grady HS around 1 p.m.

He was pulled out of class after a fellow student spotted the weapon and told an assistant principal, who notified authorities, police sources said.

The gun was not fired.

*** A man was arrested for attacking an acquaintance in a Crown Heights homeless shelter in a dispute over money, authorities said yesterday.

Police sources said Dawine Black, 28, confronted his 49-year-old victim in the stairwell of the shelter at 1322 Bedford Ave. at 1:45 a.m. Tuesday.

Black allegedly tossed the man down a flight of stairs, causing him to suffer a deep cut to the head.

While the man was on the ground, Black approached him and demanded money, sources said.

Black then allegedly rifled the victim’s pocket, removed $10 and fled.

When he returned later, police arrested him.

*** Two men have been arrested for robbing a Fort Greene store clerk at gunpoint last month, authorities said yesterday.

The incident began at 6:27 a.m. Feb. 17, when Rene Hernandez, 37, and Warren Capozzi, 29, walked into a bodega at 355 Myrtle Ave., where Capozzi pulled a gun and ordered a 19-year-old worker to open the cash register, sources said.

The clerk tried to flee, but tripped on a garbage can. Hernandez repeatedly kicked the worker, sources said.

The victim then handed Capozzi a bag containing $1,200 and eight packs of cigarettes, sources said.

Capozzi was arrested Feb. 24, and Hernandez was apprehended.

*** A 17-year-old boy who was shot on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street was listed in very critical condition yesterday, authorities said.

The victim, whose name was withheld, was moved to the Bellevue Hospital intensive-care unit yesterday morning, officials said.

The teen was standing at Clifton Place and Bedford Avenue at about 4 p.m. Monday, when a gunman approached him and opened fire, hitting him in the neck and back.

STATEN ISLAND

*** A man who stole a wallet and credit cards was arrested yesterday after he was caught riding a bicycle the wrong way on a Concord street, authorities said.

Police caught Jesus Vasquez, 37, riding his bike against the flow of traffic at Richmond Road and Ralph Place about 6:15 a.m. Tuesday, sources said.

Vasquez began struggling with the officers, hitting one of them, the sources said.

After restraining Vasquez, the officers found him in possession of a black garbage bag containing a man’s wallet, driver’s license and eight credit cards, sources said.

Vasquez was charged with assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest and grand larceny.