Broomstick Battery

Written by NYPress on June 12, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

by Jerry Danzig At 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 1, a 37-year-old man from Queens was working in a commercial building on West 63rd Street when he had a dispute with another worker. The second man struck the first man in the face with a painting broomstick, injuring him and causing pain and bruising. The
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Caravan Crime

Written by NYPress on June 12, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

by Jerry Danzig At 5:30 in the morning of Saturday, June 1, a 55-year-old handy man from the Bronx parked his vehicle across the street from the building on Riverside Drive where he was working. At the end of his shift at 4 p.m., he found his car had been stolen. It was not at
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Computer Caper

Written by NYPress on June 12, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

by Jerry Danzig An 81-year-old man living on West 81st Street reported that sometime between 8:15 and 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 29, an unknown person had used his home computer to withdraw $20,000 from his bank checking account. It is unknown if he had a wife and whether she was computer-literate
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Stolen at Yoga

Written by NYPress on June 12, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

by Jerry Danzig Early in the afternoon of Thursday, May 30, a 61-year-old woman was taking a yoga class on West 77th Street when she discovered that her wallet had been taken from her purse. She did not see anyone do the dire deed. Other people in the class said that this sort of theft
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No Lark in the Park

Written by NYPress on June 12, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

by Jerry Danzig In the morning of Thursday, May 30, a 33-year-old man from Redondo Beach, CA placed some items next to him as he sat on a park bench opposite Riverside Drive. When he looked back at his belongings ten minutes later, the items were missing. Video cameras may have captured footage of the
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Smoking Mad

Written by NYPress on June 12, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

By Jerry Danzig In the morning of Wednesday, May 29, a 17-year-old female student tried to enter her school on Amsterdam Avenue with an E-cigarette. As she passed through the scanners at the entrance, she was told to stop by to see the school safety agent, a 52-year-old woman. The girl refused and grabbed the
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Winged Ring

Written by NYPress on June 12, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

Around noon on Wednesday, May 15, a 53-year-old woman living on Central Park West placed her ring on the dresser top in her bedroom to do some housework. She left the bedroom for less than five minutes, and when she returned her ring was missing. The jacked jewelry was a “yellow metal ring with green
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Left Laptop

Written by NYPress on June 6, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

by Jerry Danzig At 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22, a 29-year-old woman left her laptop unattended in an espresso bar. When she returned five minutes later, her laptop was missing. Cameras inside the establishment may have video of the incident. Her computer had a tracking device, but it was turned off at the time
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Fraudian Slip

Written by NYPress on June 6, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

by Jerry Danzig On May 25, a 54-year-old woman living on West 80th Street reported that she had been defrauded and had sent money to someone giving false information about himself online. The money she sent was immediately forwarded out of the country to Africa. The total amount she sent was $189,500. Small wonder that
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Carpet Capers

Written by NYPress on June 6, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

by Jerry Danzig In the evening of Wednesday, May 8, a 55-year-old man entered a bank on Columbus Avenue and removed a carpet worth $400 from the ATM vestibule area. Then in the afternoon of Sunday, May 12, the same man removed a second $400 carpet from the ATM vestibule area at another branch of
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