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.

With all the disasters — natural and otherwise — wreaking havoc across the country as of late, as well as the ongoing state of the economy, two presentations at this month’s Community Board 13 meeting on Monday night took on added significance.

Representing the city’s Department of the Aging, Darnley Jones said areas around the borough are still trying to recuperate from the effects of Hurricane Sandy, particularly in the Rockaways, where he estimated it will take another five years to fully recover.

“This is a totally obvious statement, but being the mayor of the City of New York is a tough job, and people need to make sure they have somebody who’s tough enough to lead, but smart enough to listen and to lead in a collaborative way.”

That’s how City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan) responded to the first question asked of her during an interview last Thursday with the Queens Chronicle editorial board: the old standard, “What makes you the best candidate?”

Dear Editor:

I am appalled and distressed over the murder of Mark Carson, who was gunned down by alleged suspect Eliot Morales in Greenwich Village, all because he was gay. This has to stop. According to police statistics this murder is at least the 22nd anti-gay attack in the city. Anti-gay attacks are up 77 compared to the same period last year. This I find very sad. There has to bemoretolerance for those of different lifestyles.

My prayers go out to the family and friends of Mark Carson in this most difficult time.

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.

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.”

Police Officer Christopher Chance was named Cop of the Month at Tuesday’s meeting of the 102nd Community Council in Richmond Hill for the apprehension of a man who threatened a bouncer at a Richmond Hill nightclub with a fake gun.

According to Captain Hank Sautner, commanding officer of the 102nd Precinct, Chance was on patrol during the overnight shift on the night of April 27 when a man threatened to come back to Flavor Lounge on Hillside Avenue after a fight. A short time later he returned and threatened the bouncer of the club with what was believed to be a gun.

Community Board 1 unanimously supported rezoning and special permit approvals sought by the company looking to build 11 residential buildings on the Astoria peninsula mostly occupied by the Astoria Houses.

Residents of these projects and other neighbors filled the Tuesday night meeting, all backing the project that would add parks and a supermarket to the desolate, run down area with a few requests and questions.

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.

Inez Hawkins, president of the PTA at PS 52 in Springfield Gardens, had a direct message for the NYPD and the city Department of Transportation at a community meeting on Tuesday.

“We don’t want our children getting killed,” she said.

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.”

The race for mayor of New York City took a long-expected turn last night when Anthony Weiner, the former city councilman and congressman from Forest Hills, entered the contest with an announcement posted on YouTube.

Weiner, who quit the House two years ago after sending lewd photos of himself to young women across the country via social media and then lying to the public about doing so for two weeks, said he had made big mistakes in his life but is looking for a second chance.

A fund has been created for the family of D'aja Robinson, the 14-year old who was shot and killed on a Q6 bus Saturday night in Jamaica. Local rapper and author QueenzFlip started the fund after learning that Robinson was a fan of his work. He received Facebook messages from Robinson's family members informing him about Saturday's tragedy shortly after it happened.

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.

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.

Police Officer Frank Calafiore was honored with the 106th Precinct’s Cop of the Month award at the Community Council meeting in Ozone Park on May 8, for his arrest last month of an alleged armed robber and the seizure of a loaded firearm and other assorted contraband.

According to Deputy Inspector Thomas Pascale, the precinct’s commanding officer, Calafiore, Sgt. John Egan and members of his anti-crime team responded to an armed robbery in progress of a 25-year-old woman in South Ozone Park on April 11.

Ten people have been indicted on 82 counts in an alleged auto theft ring that targeted four well-known Queens auto dealerships, according to District Attorney Richard Brown.

The suspects are accused of stealing vehicles from the four dealerships in Queens and one more in Brooklyn over the course of three months and allegedly selling one of the cars to a defendant who planned to send it overseas on a container ship.