A woman found her 72-year-old grandfather slain inside his ransacked Manhattan apartment after he failed to return her calls Sunday, cops said.

She discovered Philip Erby on the hallway floor of his East Harlem pad along E. 106th St. near First Ave. and called police around 8:30 p.m., authorities said. A police source described the attack as a drug-related robbery and said that marijuana and drug paraphernalia was found in Erby’s apartment. He had what police described as a laceration to the top of his head. Paramedics rushed Erby to Metropolitan Hospital Center but he could not be saved.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

The cost of commuting is too much for many New Yorkers who need to get past the turnstile. But somehow, they do. “There are herds of people every night at the A and C Ralph Ave. station asking for swipes,” home health aide Danna Dennis, 33, said of her stop. “Sometimes, I’m one of these people.” Dennis, who lives with her retired 61-year-old father in Crown Heights, budgets her life to the dime.Working for $10 an hour without benefits and living with Type 2 diabetes, she needs to make sure she has $45 a month for her medication, $75 every two months for doctor visits, $300 a month for food and money for her prepaid cell phone.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A state Corrections Department officer is fighting to survive after he and his wife were shot in what’s believed to be a home invasion robbery gone wrong in Queens Sunday night, police sources said. Two men pushed into the Mathias Ave. home of Henry Wright, 58, and his wife, Sharon Floyd-Wright, 52, near 166th St. in Jamaica at about 7 p.m. Sunday, police sources said. One or both of the men shot Wright five times in the torso, and his wife once in the left shoulder, sources said. His wife fought back, hitting one of the men in the head with a hammer, sources said.(nydailynews.com)…[+]