MANHATTAN

* Cops are investigating the murder of a New Jersey woman found with a gunshot wound in the trunk of a car in Washington Heights. On Monday, neighborhood residents discovered the body of Edyta Kudzian, 23, of Elizabeth, in the car’s trunk on West 180th Street and Audubon Avenue. The car had been parked there several days with the trunk unlocked and the body was noticed after someone apparently opened the lid. Police said the gunshot traveled through Kudzian’s left arm and lodged in her chest. She was reported missing from Elizabeth on Jan. 20. A police source said cops are looking into the possibility that the motive for her slaying might have involved narcotics.

* A traffic-enforcement agent was suspended yesterday after being arrested on assault charges, police said yesterday. Aaron Dennis, an agent since July 1991, was collared Monday at 5:30 p.m. for allegedly assaulting a woman during a domestic dispute.

QUEENS

* A man was struck by a hit-and-run driver on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway yesterday in Woodside, police said. The vehicle plowed into the 33-year-old man as he walked on the shoulder of the highway at 41st Avenue around 5:30 p.m. He was taken to Elmhurst General Hospital in critical condition.

BROOKLYN

* An assailant stabbed a man yesterday during an argument on a Crown Heights street corner, police said. Cops responded at 3:15 a.m. to Lincoln Place and Troy Avenue, where they discovered Jarvis Oliver, 39, stabbed in the back, police said. Oliver was taken to Kings County Hospital in critical condition with multiple wounds.

* A thief walked into a Prospect Heights bank yesterday, slipped a note demanding money to a teller and escaped with an undetermined amount of cash. The robbery occurred about 11:30 a.m. at the Greenpoint branch on Washington Avenue near Eastern Parkway.

THE BRONX

* The body of a man was found in a parked car yesterday around 3 p.m. on Claflin Avenue and West 197th Street in Kingsbridge. Investigators were trying to identify him and determine how he died.

* A man was arrested yesterday in the fatal shooting of a teenager in Williamsbridge, police said. On Jan. 9, Richard Stinson, 21, allegedly shot Tamari Proctor, 17, twice in the chest around 9:30 p.m. on the corner of East 226th Street and White Plains Road. Proctor was taken to Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. In addition to murder, Stinson was charged with criminal possession of a weapon. Police do not yet know the motive.