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The two men pictured above are wanted for impersonating cops in an Elmhurst building, police said yesterday.

The two men pictured above are wanted for impersonating cops in an Elmhurst building, police said yesterday.

Manhattan

A teenager arrested last month in the raid of a Harlem PCP ring cheated death over the weekend when he was shot in the chin yet lived to tell about it, police sources said yesterday.

Taquan Banks, 18, and his crew were hanging out Saturday at a party hall on East 116th Street and Seventh Avenue when another posse showed up just before 1 a.m., sources said.

Bullets were soon flying, but the one that struck Banks traveled along his jawline, under his skin and out the back of his head without severing any major arteries, sources said.

“He should be dead,” one source said. “He’s very lucky to be alive.”

Banks, who has since been uncooperative with the police investigation, was recovering last night at St. Luke’s Hospital.

This makes two bullets he has taken in as many years. The first caught an arm, the sources said.

Thirty-five people were rounded up on Jan. 18 for dealing drugs out of the Milbank-Frawley Houses. The ring allegedly used lookouts as young as 8 years old.

The Bronx

The body of a 40-year-old Schuylerville man, his hands taped behind him, was found at the bottom of a staircase in his apartment, police sources said yesterday.

The shocking discovery was made at 10:50 a.m. in his Wellman Avenue residence.

The victim suffered facial injuries, but the cause of death was pending an autopsy by the city medical examiner.

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Three men have been arrested in connection with a home invasion in the Throggs Neck Houses, authorities said yesterday.

Andre Bowers, 22, Michael Burton, 24, and Dawon Stephens, 24, barged into their target’s apartment at about 11 p.m. on Feb. 20, according to court papers.

“Bring me to your bedroom!” Stephens allegedly barked after pulling a silver gun from his sleeve.

“Don’t f–king play with me! Gimme everything you got!” a snarling Burton added, the court records show.

They ripped out dresser drawers, found $100 and fled, cops said, but were apprehended and charged with robbery, burglary and weapon possession.

Queens

The two men pictured are wanted for impersonating cops in an Elmhurst building, police said yesterday.

They allegedly entered 89-21 Elmhurst Ave. at 1 p.m. on Jan. 10 and demanded to see “José.”

But someone demanded to see ID, and the duo fled.

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A crook ransacked a Kew Gardens Hills synagogue, lifting more than $10,000 worth of spiritual items from a second-floor room at the Margulies Saul-David temple between Feb. 18 and Feb. 25.

The loot included Torah crowns, breastplates, pointers and a silver cup.

Brooklyn

A 16-year-old boy was shot multiple times at the Albany Houses in Prospect Heights, police said yesterday.

A gunman opened fire at 12:10 a.m. Sunday, striking the teen in the arm and torso in front of 1414 Bergen St., the police said.

He was in stable condition last night at Kings County Hospital.

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An elderly woman whose body was discovered in her Bay Ridge home Sunday is believed to have died of natural causes, sources said.

Jane Franco, 84, was found by her son in the bedroom of her residence at the corner of 90th Street and Parrot Place at 1:10 p.m., police said.

She’d suffered from dementia and had been taking blood thinners while recovering from head wounds sustained when she fell last Thursday, her son told investigators.

Staten Island

Officers responding to a 911 call about a dispute in Concord found a suspect trying to ditch the firearm, authorities said.

The officers went to 580 Richmond Road at 5:30 a.m. Sunday and were questioning Robert Alexander, 19, when he tossed a sweat shirt to the ground and ran off, court papers say.

Inside was a handgun, the officers said.

Alexander, who was convicted of assault in 2009, was caught nearby in a backyard and charged with weapon possession and resisting arrest, said a spokesman for DA Dan Donovan.

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A 19-year-old motorist was charged with DWI after being stopped by cops on a highway in Travis.

John Bongiovi was behind the wheel of a 2000 Mitsubishi when he was pulled to the side on the West Shore Expressway near South Avenue just after midnight Sunday.

His blood-alcohol level was .147 — nearly twice the legal limit, cops said.

He last ran afoul of the law Aug. 21, when he was busted with 24 other alleged oxycodone dealers.