Purse Snatching Near Park

A mugger and an accomplice snatched the purse off a woman’s left shoulder July 12 at 10:20 p.m. The woman was walking home with a friend on West End Avenue near West 73rd Street, only blocks from her apartment, when the two muggers ran up behind her and grabbed the purse. She fell to the sidewalk during the robbery. The two thieves fled toward Riverside Drive.