Chess Mess

In the evening of Wednesday, June 12, a 39-year-old woman was sitting on a bench in a playground on Third Avenue playing chess on her cell phone, when an unknown 20-year-old man ran up to her, nudged her, and took her cell phone out of her hand. He then fled through the playground toward East 92nd Street before she lost sight of him. She subsequently had her cell phone deactivated. The stolen phone was an Apple iPhone 5 valued at $500.