A woman was sexually assaulted by another patient in the emergency room of Harlem Hospital after taking a painkiller for her injured foot and falling asleep, the Daily News reports.

The woman, in her mid-forties, reportedly woke up at about 3 p.m. on Friday to find Tyrone Brown, 49, rubbing her mouth with his penis. She attempted to get away and he urinated on her before hospital staff seized him.

Brown was arrested by hospital police and taken to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. He has been charged with committing a criminal sex act.

Brown has a long arrest record stretching back 30 years, mostly related to theft, the New York Post reports.

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Service on the 1 train has resumed in both directions after a derailment in Harlem on Wednesday.

Approximately 400 people were on board when the train derailed at about 5:50 p.m. near the elevated 125th Street station.

MTA officials said the cause of the derailment was still under investigation Thursday morning.

No injuries were reported, but passengers were trapped in the subway cars for more than an hour without air conditioning until a rescue train arrived.

Service was suspended in both directions between 96th and 168th streets following the incident. Service was restored Thursday morning, but officials warned that riders should expect residual delays.

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President Barack Obama isn’t the only VIP in town.

Prince Harry is scheduled to arrive in the city and visit Harlem youth Tuesday afternoon, according to news reports.

He will visit areas wrecked by Sandy in New Jersey, according to CBS.

The British prince will also meet with youth in Harlem.

Finally, he’ll be in Connecticut for the Greenwich Polo Club’s celebrity polo match.

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Cops have found the man who eluded police after slipping out of cops’ custody this morning.

The NYPD just announced that the suspect was apprehended around 3:30 p.m. as he exited the subway at West 135th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.

No injuries were reported, cops said.

Police had shut down the subways for hours after he escaped this morning while cops were arresting him for grand larceny.

According to police, cops went to to a building on St. Nicholas Avenue around 10 a.m. to arrest Vincens Vuktilaj, 18, at his home.

Cops handcuffed him and led him down the stairs, they said.

But then, he pushed cops out of the way and ran into the West 145th Street subway station.

Vuktilaj was not in a police car at the time as earlier reported, cops said.

Police said he is wanted for multiple grand larcenies where he allegedly snatched chains from female victims’ necks.

The most recent crime cited was April 29, when cops said Vuktilaj approached a 61-year-old victim around 7 p.m., asked her for directions then swiped her gold chain.

Cops said Vuktilaj had been arrested before for trespassing, jumping a turnstile and shooting at people with a BB gun.

They described him as 5-foot-6, 125 pounds with brown eyes and black hair, in a yellow long-sleeve sweater, jeans, black socks and no shoes.

The MTA shut down the nearby subway station in case he tried to flee by train after escaping the car.

A and C subway service was suspended between 59th Street and 168th Street.

All subways had been restored as of 1 p.m., an MTA spokesman said.

Danielle Tcholakian contributed reporting.

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When Raenuka Reneau’s mother passed away, her grief was amplified by feeling like the only one who had ever lost someone.

“I felt alone,” Reneau, 17, told Metro.

The Democracy Prep High School senior said she struggled after her mother died in 2011 following a battle with lupus.

“I felt like I couldn’t talk to anyone about it,” Reneau said. “I felt like no one felt the same way I did.”

Feeling lonely in her grief, she began to think about what she could do instead.

This week she launched the Flutter Foundation to help other young people share their stories of loss. Through the website, people can share a story of losing someone through things like death, a breakup or loss of friendship.

She helped start the site with The Future Project, a group that helps high school students.

So far, she has received 10 stories, and she hopes to get 1,000 before she graduates in June.

Now, she said, she finds comfort through sharing her story with others.

“That’s when I was able to really cope with it, when I found out that people were going through the same thing as me,” she said.

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Here are the new joints on our radar:

Fatty ‘Cue Brooklyn
91 S. Sixth St., Brooklyn, 718-599-3090
The barbecue spot reopens with revamped first, second and third floors, plus an expanded outdoor space.

Uncle Boons
7 Spring St., 646-370-6650
Straightforward Thai from a husband and wife team who met while cooking together at Per Se.

180
180 Hester St., second floor, 212-334-3811
A modern-day speakeasy serving traditional Neapolitan fare.

Wild
535 Hudson St., 212-929-2920
Farm-to-table pizza in the West Village.

Little Prince
199 Prince St., 212-335-0566
A French bistro comes to SoHo. We can’t wait to try the French Onion Soup Burger.

Boulevard Bistro
239 Lenox Ave., 212-678-6200
Modern American in a Harlem brownstone.

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A livery cab driver is in the hospital after he was shot Monday night in an attempted robbery.

Two suspects exited the victim’s cab about 10:30 p.m. near Fifth Avenue and 132nd Street in Harlem. One of the suspects, described as a black male, demanded cash from the victim and shot him. Both suspects fled without money.

The second suspect is described as a black female.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

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A Harlem woman jumped to her death from her eighth floor apartment window while holding her baby on Wednesday, but the baby survived the fall.

The woman fell on her back and the 10-month-old child bounced off her body, the New York Post reported.

Cindy Bacharach, 44, leaped from her window at The Sutton co-op building at approximately 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, leaving behind a long suicide letter in which she blamed herself for her baby’s undisclosed medical conditions. Bacharach suffered from acute postpartum depression. She and her husband were fighting just hours before the suicide, neighbors told the Post.

Keston was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition and is expected to survive.

Bacharach was a lawyer who worked in the state Supreme Court system since 1997.

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The decaying body that was found stuffed inside a barrel in a Harlem apartment this past weekend has been identified as a 19-year-old woman who lived at the residence with her boyfriend and his grandmother. The death has been reclassified as a homicide, police said.

Francis Angelica Alfonso Pellerano sustained multiple stab wounds, the Medical Examiner said. Police discovered the Pellerano’s body Saturday night inside 2400 Seventh Ave. when they responded to complaints that a foul odor was coming from the apartment.

Pellerano’s boyfriend has not yet been questioned by police because he is undergoing psychiatric evaluation, according to the New York Post. The investigation is ongoing.

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Police discovered a decaying corpse Saturday night after responding to complaints of a foul odor coming from a Harlem apartment.

The unidentified victim was found stuffed inside a container at the apartment, located on Seventh Avenue near the corner of 140th Street, according to cops.

No cause of death had been determined and no arrests had been made as of Sunday afternoon. However, the Daily News reported that an emotionally disturbed man, who lived in the apartment with his grandmother, had been taken into custody.

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The crossing guard who was on duty when a Harlem boy was hit by a truck and killed on Thursday has been suspended, according to police.

Flavia Roman, 55, was suspended on Thursday after 6-year-old Amar Diarrosova was run down by a tractor-trailer as he was crossing First Avenue at 117th Street. Roman was not at the intersection even though she was supposed to be on duty. She told reporters she was taking a break.

Diarrosova was on his way to school with his older brother. The driver of the truck, Robert Carroll Jr. of New Jersey, was given a summons for failing to yield to a pedestrian and another for failure to exercise due care.

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Two men have been charged with kidnapping a woman and forcibly prostituting her for two days until she finally escaped by jumping out of a six-story window, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.

Benjamin Gaston, 36, and Johnny Jackson, 53, have been indicted for raping and sexually assaulting a prostituted woman who they held captive for two days in November.

Gaston brought the victim, 28, to Jackson’s apartment on West 92nd Street around 4 a.m. on Nov. 13. She was then robbed, raped and forced to have sex with multiple men. She called 911 from a phone in the apartment but was not able to relay her location to police.

On the next evening, Gaston brought the woman to another apartment on West 149th Street where several men were waiting. She was locked in the bedroom and told she would be forced to have sex with each of the men. The woman then tried to escape through a window and ended up falling six stories, breaking bones in her back, leg and arm.

“The facts of this crime are truly heinous – these defendants are accused of holding a woman hostage in order to essentially enslave and prostitute her,” said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. “They are also charged with raping and sexually assaulting her, making her so fearful for her life that she tried to escape from a sixth-floor window.”

The men are charged with kidnapping, rape and sex trafficking, among other charges.

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Police have arrested three individuals in connection with the death of 48-year-old Charles Romo, whose body was found tied up and beaten in his Hamilton Heights apartment on Jan. 28, police said.

Keith Stokes, 50, and Ralph Stokes, 52, were both charged with murder and robbery. Bridgette Cash, 38, has been charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

Romo was found at his home at 87 Hamilton Pl. kneeling against his bed in his underwear with his hands and feet tied, and his mouth taped. Police said that they believed the suspects were acquaintances of Romo and that robbery was the motive in the death, DNAinfo.com reported.

Romo’s death is one of three recent murders that have led to some leaders urging the gay community to be cautious with online dating.

Jackson Heights resident David Rangel, 53, was found choked to death at his home on Jan. 26. And Joseph Benzinger of Middle Village was found dead in a room at the Crown Motor Inn in Elmhurst, Queens on Feb. 9.

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New York had 419 homicides in 2012, or 3.8 murders for every 100,00 residents, but murder rates for some individual neighborhoods in the city are comparable to murder rates in some of the world’s most crime-ridden countries, according to a study by Columbia University’s The New York World, the NY Post reports.

East Harlem’s rate of 21 murders per 100,000 residents was similar to Brazil’s rates.

Neighborhoods in The Bronx had some of the highest numbers. Hunts Point had a similar rate as West African country Benin with 15.3 murders per 100,000 residents. And Mott Haven-Melrose in The Bronx had 13.1 per 100,000 residents, same as Nicaragua.

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Two cars collided at Eighth Avenue and 135th Street in Harlem Wednesday morning, causing one of them to crash into an MTA bus, according to NBC New York.

FDNY said 11 people were injured, five with serious injuries that are not life-threatening. They have been taken to the hospital.

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Upon hearing gunshots in Harlem early Saturday, a police officer chased after four suspects and apprehended one of them following a struggle.

A search of the 15-year-old suspect turned up a loaded Bryco Arms .380-caliber handgun, according to the NYPD.

Meanwhile, police discovered a 22-year-old who had been shot twice in the leg near Amsterdam Avenue and 131st Street.

The victim, who was taken to a nearby hospital in stable condition, identified the teenager as one of the shooters.

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