New York Daily News

2 brothers held in slay of landlord

- BY REUVEN BLAU and JOHN ANNESE

NEW YORKERS really need to embrace their wild sides.

That’s the message of WildlifeNY­C, a citywide education and awareness campaign set to launch Friday, the Daily News has learned.

Sparked by the booming deer population in Staten Island and coyote sightings across the city, the campaign urges New Yorkers to appreciate wildlife from afar — and not panic when they encounter a critter.

“WildlifeNY­C’s emphasis on education, outreach and humane population control will help all New Yorkers care for our urban environmen­t — and the animals who share it with us,” said Mayor de Blasio.

The multi-agency effort includes posters, billboards and banners around the five boroughs featuring photos of deer on a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline and the message: “City dwellers take many forms.”

A new web portal — nyc.gov/wildlife — will allow New Yorkers to report a wildlife sighting, learn about different species and get instructio­n on what to do and what not to do. TWO BROTHERS were arrested Thursday in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a Brooklyn landlord, cops said.

Erskin Felix, 38, and his 28-year-old brother, Kendall Felix, were taken into custody in the killing nearly three years ago of Menachem Stark, according to police.

Stark, the married father of seven, was grabbed outside his Williamsbu­rg office during a botched robbery in the middle of a snowstorm on Jan. 2, 2014. His burned body was later discovered in a dumpster beside a gas station in Great Neck, L.I.

Erskin Felix faces murder and kidnapping charges, while his sibling was charged with hindering prosecutio­n and tampering with physical evidence, cops said.

Both were being held at the NYPD’s 90th Precinct stationhou­se early Friday.

The arrests come roughly three weeks after the pair’s cousin, Kendel Felix, 29, was convicted of killing the 39-year-old Stark (photo).

In a videotaped confession, Kendel Felix, a carpenter who once worked for Stark, said Erskin Felix was the mastermind of the scheme.

“I’m scared s---less because this wasn’t supposed to happen,” Felix told Kenneth Taub, chief of the Brooklyn district attorney’s homicide bureau.

According to prosecutor­s, the Felix cousins dragged Stark into a minivan following an intense tussle on the street.

Stark died of asphyxiati­on after one of the co-conspirato­rs sat on his chest in the back seat of the van, prosecutor­s said.

Kendel Felix is slated to be sentenced on Nov. 2 in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

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