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New Troop Hits the Streets

Written by NYPress on May 23, 2013. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

Newly formed Girl Scout Troop 3345 set up a table at W. 99th Street and Columbus Avenue last month to sell cookies. Leaders Isabel & Zoila helped out scouts Leila, Claudia, Kinah, Samantha, Autumn, Seema and Ayden
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Group Pushes for Grand Army Plaza

Written by NYPress on May 23, 2013. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

Local preservation advocacy group Landmark West is pushing the city and the Central Park Conservancy to overhaul their plans to restore the park’s Grand Army Plaza, located on Fifth Avenue between East 58th and 60th Streets. Designed as an outdoor room, in the manner of a French garden, the plaza was created in 1916 by
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Krim Family Expects New Baby

Written by NYPress on May 23, 2013. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

A local family who experienced a tremendous loss a year ago has something to celebrate. Kevin and Marina Krim’s two young children, Lulu, 6 and Leo, 2, were allegedly murdered by their nanny in their Upper West Side home last year. The Krim’s 4-year-old daughter, Nessie, was with her mother at swimming lessons at the
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Moore-less

Written by NYPress on May 23, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

At noon on Wednesday, May 1, an 83-year-old man and his wife packed a bronze sculpture in a canvas bag and wrapped it with clothing at their residence in Palm Beach, Florida. They then placed the sculpture with other property inside the cargo area of their 2013 Mercedes-Benz GL 450 SUV. ext they had the
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Opera Operator

Written by NYPress on May 23, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

On Wednesday, May 1, a 74-year-old woman attended the opera at Lincoln Center. In the afternoon next day when she checked her purse, she opened her wallet and found that her credit cards and her state driver’s license had been removed by an unknown perpetrator. When she called to cancel the cards, she found that
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Torpedo Taken

Written by NYPress on May 23, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

At 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8, a 57-year-old man parked his motorcycle on W. 74th Street. When he returned to the parking spot at 1 p.m. the following day, his cycle was missing. The victim stated that video recorded at a building on Riverside Drive showed an unknown perpetrator loading the motorcycle into a
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Mighty Manager

Written by NYPress on May 23, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

At 1:30 p.m. on Friday, May 10, an unknown male perpetrator walked into a bank on Broadway and told the teller, “This is a robbery! You have 30 seconds – I have someone waiting outside!” Then the manager realized what was going on and confronted the perpetrator. The perpetrator left the location without taking any
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Complex Criminal

Written by NYPress on May 23, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

In the evening of Friday, May 10, a 65-year-old woman was walking on W. 60th Street, when she saw a 36-year-old man walking close behind her. She crossed the street, and the man crossed with her. The man grabbed her handbag and ran. The victim chased the perpetrator while screaming for help, and the man
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Chain Drain

Written by NYPress on May 23, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

On Monday, May 13, a chain electronics store on Broadway reported that on four occasions, an employee had allowed unknown accomplices to purchase store inventory with accounts that were not theirs. The total amount of products taken was $9,034.15. A 19-year-old woman was arrested May 13 and charged with grand larceny
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Watch Out

Written by NYPress on May 23, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

At 7 p.m. on Monday, May 13, a 32-year-old man put a gold Rolex Day Date II watch in his jacket pocket and put the jacket in his locker at a gym on Columbus Avenue. When he returned to his locker at 9:30 p.m., he found the watch was missing. The tempting timepiece was worth
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