Compiled by Paul Bisceglio LATE NIGHT PEN STABBING After a fight with a teenage stranger, a 32-year-old man walked into Metropolitan Hospital on Sunday night with puncture wounds that he believes were caused by a pen. According to the victim, the teen confronted him on Second Avenue around 1:45 a.m., asking “What you looking at?” 
Compiled by Norah Bosworth Public Hearing on Proposed Soho BID According to a release from the SoHo Alliance, councilmember Margaret Chin has called a public hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 31, at 10 a.m. at City Hall on the proposed Soho Business Improvement District (BID). The hearing will be conducted by the City Council’s Finance Committee
SEMI-GOOD SAMARITAN A local 68-year-old woman reported a theft and partial recovery of her wallet last week. The woman discovered that her wallet was missing when she went to grab it at a diner on West 67th Street last Friday. She assumed that she had lost it at a Pax café location earlier that day
Head Down, Phone Gone On Monday, Oct. 8, at around 6:30 p.m., a local 21-year-old was employing the fancy mapping features of her new iPhone 5 when she was caught unaware. The woman was intently studying the map as she walked toward the northwest corner of Third Avenue and East 95th Street when an unknown
SUSPICIOUS EVIDENCE A 35-year-old Upper West Sider played amateur sleuth last week when her laptop went missing. The woman returned home on Oct. 3 and noticed two clues—one, her computer was gone, and two, her carpet was marred by muddy footprints, made by boots that were not hers or her husband’s. There were no signs
Fire Starter Police were called to the scene of a fire in an East 96th Street building last week on Wednesday afternoon. Fire officials determined that an unknown perpetrator had intentionally set the blaze in the trash compactor area of the residential building, calling the fire “incendiary.” No one in the building was hurt. There
Cleaning Out the Cleaners Two would-be thieves were thwarted by a vigilant eyewitness last Saturday night. A witness saw a man and a woman, one carrying a briefcase, attempt to break into a dry-cleaning shop on East 77th Street around midnight. The witness called 911, and the suspects fled on foot and then jumped into
VP Catches Bank Fraud The assistant vice president at an Upper West Side branch of Chase Bank caught on to a fraudulent check-cashing scheme after a suspect got away with her gambit at two other branches. On Monday, the perp walked into the third branch at 2:10 p.m. and attempted to cash a check for
On-the-Job Victims Two employees of a French restaurant on Broadway reported that their property was stolen from the basement coat check while they were working on the night of Friday, Sept. 21. The woman told police that a white man, about 40 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 180 pounds, with black balding hair,
Don’t Text and Walk In the early-morning hours last Friday, a 20-year-old woman was walking home when she received a text message on her iPhone. She took it out of her bag at the corner of East 82nd Street and York Avenue to respond when an unknown man ran up behind her and pushed 
