Wake today for man slain by Empire State Building

The sales executive killed last week by a disgruntled former co-worker outside the Empire State Building is to be mourned Mondayat a wake in White Plains, across the Hudson River from his childhood home in Rockland County.

Visitation hours for Steven Ercolino, 41, will be held today and Monday and Tuesdayat Ballard-Durand funeral home, and a memorial Mass will be held Wednesday at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, also in White Plains, his brother Paul confirmed yesterday.

Ercolino is to be cremated Wednesday. He was fatally shot on East 33rd Street Friday by Jeffrey Johnson, 58, who then walked around the corner and was killed in a fusillade of police bullets that wounded nine bystanders.

Two of the injured, a 31-year-old woman and 35-year-old man, were recovering yesterday at Bellevue Hospital Medical Center, police said. A third victim, a 56-year-old woman, was being treated at Weill Cornell Medical Center, police said.

The shootings shocked witnesses in busy midtown Manhattan as well as Ercolino's family and friends. It also affected those who did not know Ercolino.

Police said yesterday that they were still investigating evidence from Johnson's Upper East Side home, including computer hard drives.

The shooting was an act of revenge, with Johnson blaming Ercolino after Johnson lost his job last year at Hazan Import Corp., police said.