Red-Brick Break-in

Written by admin on May 1, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Our Town

By Jerry Danzig At 4 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, April 20, an anonymous 911 caller stated that she had observed a white man breaking into a designer luggage and accessories store on Madison Avenue and stealing property from that location. The perpetrator forced entry through the store’s glass front door with a red
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Street Jostler

Written by NYPress on May 1, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Our Town

By Jerry Danzig At 1 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, April 20, a 30-year-old woman was walking down E. 83rd St. about one block from her apartment building, when an unknown perpetrator jostled her and kept walking. The woman stated that her bag was open at the time, and she discovered that items had
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Fare Beater Busted

Written by NYPress on May 1, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Our Town

By Jerry Danzig At 2 a.m. on the morning of Friday, April 19, a passenger exited a yellow cab on East 63rd Street without paying the $15 fare. When the cabbie, a 28-year-old man, approached the passenger to collect his fare, the passenger struck him in the face, causing substantial pain. The cabbie suffered from
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Dry-Skin Damage

Written by NYPress on May 1, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Our Town

In the evening of Wednesday, April 24, a security guard in a chain drugstore on Second Avenue observed a 39-year-old man taking nine bottles of moisturizer from the shelf and attempting to leave the store without paying for them. The security guard stopped the man at the door, but the man refused to give the
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Punch and Run

Written by Alan Krawitz on April 24, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Our Town

A stunned 36-year-old motorist reported to police that on Friday, April 12th, around 1 p.m., an unknown man walked up to the driver’s side window of his vehicle on Fifth Ave. and E.96th Street and asked, “Are you in a rush?” The motorist said the man then punched him in the mouth with a closed
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Money, Please

Written by Alan Krawitz on April 24, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Our Town

On Friday, April 12th, at around 11:50 a.m., a man walked into a large commercial bank on Third Avenue and waited for a window to become available. The 21-year-old bank teller told police the man, wearing one latex glove on his right hand, passed a note to her demanding money. The note reportedly said, “This
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Aborted Bank Robbery

Written by Alan Krawitz on April 24, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Our Town

Two would-be bank robbers might want to take a course in remedial note writing after their attempted robbery failed miserably last Thursday, April 11. At around 3 p.m., two bank tellers at a First Avenue bank reported to police that they were approached by two different men using the same note to demand money. According
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No Gold in Those Nuggets

Written by NYPress on April 24, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Our Town

Not everything that glitters is gold. A 44-year-old man got a refresher on this adage last Wednesday, April 10th around 5:30 p.m. when he reported to police that a man walked into the 2nd Avenue cell phone store where he was working and offered to sell him some gold nuggets. The man selling the gold
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Purse Taken from Popular Nabe Bar

Written by Joanna Fantozzi on April 16, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Our Town

A 24-year-old woman, who lives on 77th Street, walked inside a popular 2nd Avenue bar at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday March 30th, and left at 1:30 a.m. Sometime during that timeframe, her purse, which was hanging on a hook under the bar, went missing. When she went to get her purse and found it missing,
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Gramps Waltzes Out with Jacket

Written by Joanna Fantozzi on April 16, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Our Town

A security agent said he observed an unknown man on camera trying on a jacket at Madison Avenue high end clothing store on April 1st. He then put the jacket on top of his own jacket and walked out of the store. The security agent notified another agent as the thief exited the store without
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