Last week, a 12-year-old girl was struck and killed as she crossed Delancey Street on the Lower East Side, in an area that has a reputation for being dangerous for pedestrians.

Now, an advocacy group has said that this tragedy is part of an alarming trend -- that young children in low-income neighborhoods are disproportionately at risk.

A report released yesterday by Transportation Alternatives, called "Child Crashes: An Unequal Burden," suggests that crashes occur at a much higher rate in poorer neighborhoods.

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Sam Levin

It wasn't exactly the warmest reception the mayor has ever received. Mike Bloomberg stopped by the House of Justice in East Harlem earlier today -- where apparently most local electeds that matter (or hope to matter) were making their MLK appearances.

Folks in the audience packed tightly into one large room for the National Action Network's Martin Luther King Jr. Day Public Policy Forum. Some weren't so happy to see Bloomberg. Host Rev. Al Sharpton didn't exactly help Bloomberg feel welcome with a strange introduction emphasizing his rocky relationship with the mayor.

Before the mayor arrived, Sharpton -- speaking in a room with many of his magazine cover stories and front page photo-ops from years past plastered on the wall -- made clear that he wanted to be united with Bloomberg on the issue of gun violence.

"Today, we are coming together to stop gun violence...We all got to be real clear that we've got to stand together," he said.

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Larry Davis, 22, killed his grandmother in her East 124th Street home in East Harlem, stuffed her in a closet, and then fucked a prostitute on granny's bed in a two-day sex romp, cops say.

What can you say after that? The cops have the last word: He was charged Thursday with murder.

​It was a bang-bang murder and arrest during yesterday afternoon's rush hour. A 27-year-old East Harlem man was quickly chased down yesterday afternoon for allegedly shooting another man to death under the Metro North tracks at 128th and Park Avenue as commuter trains rumbled overhead. Dead is Joshua Nelson, who was found lying on the ground after being shot several times. Denni Valdez, 26, ran from the scene but was nabbed in no time, cops say. He was charged with murder.

Cops responded to the shots at 4:50 p.m. and scooped up Valdez as he raced into the lobby of his apartment building nearby at 57 East 128th Street. Meanwhile, paramedics worked to save Nelson, of 51 East 129 Street, but he was pronounced DOA at the scene. Nice and neat -- except that a mother's son is dead.

​Rosario DiGirolamo was sentenced yesterday in New Jersey to 25 years in prison for killing his mistress, Amy Giordano, in 2007, cutting up her corpse, and dumping the pieces in the water at Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve in Charleston, Staten Island. A Google search for murder methods led the guy to plead guilty last month, his lawyer told the AP, which added:

Evidence showed DiGirolamo had searched the phrase "lethal karate blows to the back of the head" days before the killing. Defense attorney Jerome Ballarotto said the search evidence was "catastrophic." DiGirolamo left the couple's 11-month-old son in the parking lot of a Delaware hospital.

More bad stuff that you yourself did not do:

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