The city joined Shadia Sands this week in mourning D’aja Robinson, her 14-year-old daughter who was killed by gunfire on Saturday.

“She was my only child — my heart, my everything,” Sands said Tuesday at a press conference near the Sutphin Ave. bus stop where she was killed when a gunman fired at least nine shots into a Q6 bus.

Following hundreds of undercover buys of cocaine, marijuana and heroin, the NYPD charged 51 alleged drug dealers at the Ravenswood and Queensbridge houses, Queens District Attorney Richard  Brown and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced today.

≈n elderly man from Ozone Park was killed crossing Atlantic Avenue last Thursday.

At around 7:23 p.m., police responded to a 911 call of a pedestrian struck at 88th Street and Atlantic Avenue. When they arrived at the scene, they found Rafael Diaz, 73, of 97-36 88 St. unconscious and unresponsive.

Deputy Inspector Miltiadis Marmara, commanding officer of the NYPD’s 113th Precinct, found it very difficult to talk about plummeting crime statistics on Monday night.

“Every statistic is a person, or someone’s property,” he said. “Or someone’s 14-year-old daughter.”

Warmer summer weather in the city means more and more people will be using the city’s streets and parks to go running.

With that in mind, the Community Affairs Bureau and the Crime Prevention Section of the NYPD are offering the following tips to encourage people to run more safely:

The NYPD has issued a silver alert for a missing 79-year-old Laurelton man and is seeking the public’s assistance in locating him.

Police from the 113th Precinct said Edward Prioleru was last seen at his home at 6:30 a.m. at 125-20 Adair St. on Friday.

A St. Albans man who engaged in a one-hour felony spree in February 2010 was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison last week on charges that included the attempted murder of a police officer.

Darius Lowery, 25, was one of two men convicted in March in connection with a rampage that went through three precincts and involved a stolen car, a home invasion robbery, an armed street robbery and shots fired at officers Steven Betts and Shawn Phillips during a brief but wild car chase.

A popular video game store in Howard Beach was the target of a brazen robbery on Monday.

Two gunmen barged into the Game Stop store at 160-08 Cross Bay Blvd. around noon in the daring daylight robbery, according to Deputy Inspector Thomas Pascale, commanding officer of the 106th Precinct.

The Flushing teacher accused of having a nine-month sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl pleaded guilty Monday to statutory rape of the former student at his Forest Hills residence.

Daniel Reilly, 36, who was teaching sixth-grade English at IS 237 in Flushing when he was charged, met the victim at a grammar school he once worked at. According to District Attorney Richard Brown, the case came to light when the victim’s sister saw sexually explicit text messages on her phone. The victim’s family went to the school and met with school administrators who notified the Special Commissioner of Investigation.

Elected officials and community leaders are looking to make Forest Park safer and they may have found their answer: horses.

“Installing permanent stables for police horses would be a great thing for the park,” J. Richard Smith, secretary of the 102nd Precinct Community Council, said. “We just need the funding for it which is going to be tough.”

A representative from the Mayor’s Office says there are plenty of options for Queens residents looking to improve their neighborhoods, but not everyone is convinced.

“Graffiti is one of the biggest quality-of-life issues, but people don’t always know what to do when they see it in their neighborhood and they feel helpless in these situations,” Claudia Filomena, the Queens director for the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit, said. “We’re trying to get the word out that these options are there and available for you to take advantage of.”

Captain Hank Sautner, the commanding officer of the 102 Precinct, opened Tuesday’s meeting of the community council by discussing an incident that occurred outside of his jurisdiction, the shooting death of D’aja Robinson in South Jamaica last weekend.

“These tragedies are unfortunate, but these are the tragedies we work to prevent,” Sautner said, reminding the audience in the basement of the Richmond Hill library to be vigilant and careful.

The Queens County Democratic Party on Monday announced its endorsements three three citywide candidates, as well as its pick to be Borough Hall’s next occupant.

The borough’s Dems, led by Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx), are backing former Councilwoman Melinda Katz for borough president, Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan) for mayor, Resham Saujani for public advocate and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer for comptroller.

It doesn’t say all that much for our political situation when it’s worth going out of our way to congratulate an honest politician. But that’s how it is.

“Shocker! Post finds honest NY politician” a New York Post page 2 headline blared last Saturday. That politician is Queens City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), who blew the whistle on a builder’s alleged efforts to bribe him.

Chanan Aulov, the man accused of robbing three taxi drivers, was apprehended last week thanks to a special NYPD strategy adopted by the 112th Precinct.

“I hate to say it, but sometimes crime has to happen to catch people, but this is a textbook definition of how the Police Department reacts to things,” Commanding Officer Thomas Conforti said at the 112th Precinct Community Council meeting last Thursday. “We like to prevent crime but when we can’t do that, we analyze and deploy into our areas, and this is proof positive of that.”

A St. Albans man who engaged in a one-hour felony spree in February 2010 was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison last week on charges that included the attempted murder of a police officer.

Darius Lowery, 25, was one of two men convicted in March in connection with a rampage that went through three precincts and involved a stolen car, a home invasion robbery, an armed street robbery and shots fired at officers Steven Betts and Shawn Phillips during a brief but wild car chase.

The NYPD has issued a silver alert for a missing 79-year-old Laurelton man and is seeking the public’s assistance in locating him.

(StatePoint) This year’s summer blockbuster season is shaping up to be a big one, full of some of the year’s most highly anticipated films.

Police are looking for a Richmond Hill man who has been missing since earlier this month.

George Inczenko, 54 was last seen at his home at 119-12 Hillside Ave. on Saturday, May 4.