Spread ’Em Cops aren’t the only ones who will tell you to place your hands on a car—criminals will tell you to do so if they want to make off with your stuff and keep from being seen. On Monday, March 19, near First Avenue and 74th Street at 9 p.m., a man was pushed against a car by some crooks who 
Not-So-Good Deed What should have been merely a touching example of a youngster helping out an elderly neighbor became the stuff of police reports last week. A 25-year-old woman jumped to the assistance of an 82-year-old man who was crossing a busy Upper West Side street last Thursday. By the time she had ferried the 
New York is a city with a booming elderly population—there are over 3.4 million people over the age of 65 living here. With that aging population come the predators who single out older victims for their nefarious swindles. In an age of small-time Internet scams and big-time Ponzi schemes, everyone is a potential victim of 
Gadget Bonanza A Chambers Street electronics store was broken into on a recent Sunday morning by a group of enterprising thieves. According to police, the perps, who remain at large, successfully and carefully removed the glass from the front door of the shop and proceeded to steal around $25,000 worth of electronics. Their loot included 
CHAIN GOES OFF THE HOOK Keep your enemies close and your gold teddy bear chain necklace closer. A 16-year-old Bronx guy was having a verbal fight with some friends on Tuesday afternoon on Church Street when one of those “friends” reached out and grabbed a $200 necklace with a teddy bear figure attached to it, 
