Compiled by Megan Bungeroth SHOPPING SPREE GONE AWRY A local woman was shopping at a high-end clothing store on Columbus Avenue on Friday, Sept. 14. She placed her purse on a table while she was shopping, paid for her clothes, and left the store before she remembered that she didn’t have her purse with her. 
Early Morning Intimidation Two friends were standing on the sidewalk on Third Avenue around 10:30 a.m. last Thursday when they were approached by three men. One of the perps reportedly punched one of the victims in the face with a closed fist, causing a small laceration, while another made threatening moves to the second victim,
Missing Mac Last Thursday, a man left his West 71st Street apartment around noon to grab some groceries from a nearby store, locking his front door behind him. When he returned, however, he discovered that his $2,000 MacBook laptop was gone. He also found the back door of his apartment building, which leads to the 
UN-YOGI-LIKE BEHAVIOR A 26-year-old yoga practitioner received a rude surprise at the end of a class recently. Before hitting the mat at a West 77th Street studio last Saturday, she stowed her personal belongings in an unlocked cubby (a normal practice for many yoga studios). By the time she had finished her final downward dog, 
Compiled by Josh Rogers JIMMY CHOO HEIST Burglars made off with over $70,000 worth of Jimmy Choo handbags and shoes at the designer’s Madison Avenue store Sunday night just before midnight, police said. Two witnesses saw two men running out of the store with white shopping bags. The burglars hopped in a gray minivan and
Compiled by Megan Bungeroth KIDDIE ROBBERY Last week, a local man came home around 11:30 a.m. to his apartment on Columbus Avenue, which he shares with three roommates, to find two complete strangers rummaging through their stuff. The perps fled on foot, and police were able to apprehend one 27-year-old suspect, who was caught in
Compiled by Adel Manoukian Van in a Seemingly Secure Location Gets Robbed Surprisingly, some crimes can happen in the blink of an eye. A 2009 white Ford van was stationed at its usual parking spot on the third floor of a garage on Greenwich Street, a fact verified by the garage’s security guard, who clearly
—Compiled by Adel Manoukian Train Thefts Persist The NYPD reports that the number of thefts on trains and train platforms is increasing, so riders be warned or you might end up like the following unlucky cases. Having just gotten off a southbound N train, a 23-year-old NYU student was walking on a train platform when 
Deranged Man Attacks Random Stranger You’ve probably never been conscious of who you share a park bench with, but this next crime might make you a littler warier. A couple was recently sitting on a bench in a park on Broadway eating pizza. Suddenly, a stranger who was sitting next to them got up and
Compiled by Amanda Woods Playground Affair A 47-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man were having consensual sex in a playground on the northeast corner of Marginal Street and East 63rd Street on Saturday morning when a 46-year-old woman walking with her kids spotted them and called the police. Both the man and the woman were 
