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    POLICE SEEK THREE SUSPECTS FOR UWS ROBBERIES

    March 15, 2016 | 10:24 AM - Updated on June 5, 2022 | 11:30 PM
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    uws robbery suspects

    Police are looking for three people suspected of robberies in the West 90’s. We’ve pasted the NYPD release below, with descriptions of two of the suspects. The images above are from surveillance video at the 96th street subway station.

    Incident #1: On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at approximately 2135 hours, a 24-year-old male victim was jogging at the Riverside Park at West 90th Street when three unidentified individuals approached him from behind and displayed a firearm. One of the male individuals removed the victim’s iPhone 5S and personal property before fleeing northbound on Riverside Drive. There were no injuries reported as a result of this incident.

    Incident #2: On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at approximately 2150 hours, a 28-year-old male victim making a delivery at 252 West 91st Street was approached by three unidentified individuals as he was unlocking his bicycle. The individuals displayed a firearm and attempted to remove the victim’s cash. The individuals fled northbound on Broadway and eastbound on West 92nd Street without any property. There were no injuries reported as a result of this incident.

    Individual #1 is described as male Black last seen wearing gray sweat pants, black sneakers, red Nike hooded sweater and a black jacket.

    Individual #2 is described as a male Hispanic last seen wearing black jeans, black and black sneakers, dark-colored hooded sweater and a black jacket.

    Anyone with information in regards to these incidents is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).  The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

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    Cato
    Cato
    10 years ago

    Maybe if Donald Trump doesn’t win the presidency in 2016, he’ll run for NYC Mayor in 2017.

    I’ll bet this stuff would slow down under a Mayor Trump.

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    Paul RL
    Paul RL
    10 years ago

    He’s got my vote. So do you, Cato!

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    grandmasterbeta
    grandmasterbeta
    10 years ago

    Being mayor wouldn’t make a dent in Little Donald J. Drumpf’s yuuuge inferiority complex.

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    jill
    jill
    10 years ago

    I’d rather have you as mayor than the buffoon that’s currently taking up space there

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    grandmasterbeta
    grandmasterbeta
    10 years ago

    If I were mayor, every bar would be CBGBs and Danceteria, and my lazy artist friends would be subsidized to play there. It would be yuuuge

    I take it you haven’t read that the City economy is actually THRIVING under DeBlasio?

    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/nyregion/new-york-is-thriving-under-mayor-de-blasio-much-to-business-leaders-relief.html?_r=0

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    Bruce Bernstein
    Bruce Bernstein
    10 years ago

    somehow it doesn’t surprise me that Trump has PaulRL’s vote.

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    Bruce Bernstein
    Bruce Bernstein
    10 years ago

    of course De Blasio and Bratton have done a great job on crime. but that doesn’t stop a certain group from loudly complaining… because he ended the racial profiling form of stop and frisk.

    i think maybe these people don’t care about crime, at the end of the day. they just want to have some sort of public expression of racial supremacy. truly sad.

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    John Johnson
    John Johnson
    10 years ago
    Reply to  Bruce Bernstein

    So true, Bruce. It makes me not want to read the comments. The whining about De Blasio and Bratton abandoning stop-and-frisk ignores the facts that it was not helping reduce crime, was costing a fortune in lawsuits, and was banned by the courts. I guess that’s the kind of magical thinking that makes Mayor Trump the Savior Incarnate.

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    Jay Jay
    Jay Jay
    10 years ago
    Reply to  John Johnson

    NOT TRUE. Or, not true. Stop, Question and possibly Frisk has now been proved to be effective in NYC. Now that it is gone, we are paying the price.

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    Siddhartha
    Siddhartha
    10 years ago
    Reply to  Jay Jay

    Jay Jay, you managed to spout something without any proof whatsoever. Can you please explain your point?

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    Paul RL
    Paul RL
    10 years ago

    Bruce, please stop going silent for these extended periods. We get very concerned, you know.

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    Paul Getreal
    Paul Getreal
    10 years ago

    Why be snarky? Because he’s right? As if violating the civil rights of thousands was such an effective way of keeping crime down?

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    Lucien
    Lucien
    10 years ago

    Crime is definitely on the rise.

    CompStats (thus far to this year compared to last year):

    Robbery: 24.9% increase
    Fel. Assault: 10% increase
    Burglary: 5.4% decrease
    Rape: 31.6% increase
    Gr. Larceny: 17.2% increase
    GLA: 17% increase
    (A lot of the grand larceny seems like bank frauds)
    Petit Larceny: 43.3% increase
    Misd Assault: 19.7% increase

    But the good news!
    Murder 0% increase

    Source: https://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/crime_prevention/crime_statistics.shtml

    Also: https://compstat.nypdonline.org is very informative and just went online a couple of weeks ago

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    jlj
    jlj
    10 years ago

    Thx Lucien weepy hand wringing leftists that have never been vics hate being confronted with facts, and seldom are.

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    Siddhartha
    Siddhartha
    10 years ago
    Reply to  jlj

    So you’re saying conservatives are victims? They certainly act like it!

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    jlj
    jlj
    10 years ago

    No, that’s not what I’m saying.

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    DB
    DB
    10 years ago

    God forbid a Trump mayor (or president)!

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    Bruce Bernstein
    Bruce Bernstein
    10 years ago

    to Lucien: the crime statistics are indeed informative, but you should learn to READ them correctly. you were looking at one week, not the year-to-date.

    here are the actual stats for 2016 year-to-date compared to the same period last year.

    murder: down 30.2% (!)
    rape: up 8.5%
    robbery: down 1.4%
    felony assualt: up 13.9%
    burglary: -8.1%
    Gr Larceny: up 4.2%
    GL Auto: down 4.8%

    total serious crime: up 2.5%

    Shooting victims: down 11.7%
    shooting incidents: down 19.3%

    as you can see, crime is basically steady and murder down. it is early in the year, but i expect we will finish up about where we were last year.

    the bottom line is that crime of all sorts is at the lowest level in NYC history, has stayed there or overall gotten lower during the MAyor’s term, and is way below where is was during the Giuliani era.

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    Bruce Bernstein
    Bruce Bernstein
    10 years ago

    Source:

    https://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-city.pdf

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    SG
    SG
    10 years ago

    The NYT’s is a liberal rag, so you can’t believe anything in it. Wonder if the thugs were motivated by “trigger warnings” and would have refrained from this behavior if only there had been a “safe space” available.

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    Bruce Bernstein
    Bruce Bernstein
    10 years ago

    wow, you’re an angry person. can i hazard a guess that you’re a Trump supporter?

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    jlj
    jlj
    10 years ago

    What’s the compstat on slashings? Way down I bet.

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    SG
    SG
    10 years ago

    No Bruce, I’m not a a Trump supporter and think he’ a clown., but I’m not surprised by your reaction…anyone who doesn’t think like you is either crazy, stupid or a racist, right!

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    Bruce Bernstein
    Bruce Bernstein
    10 years ago

    … or angry… you seem to be very very angry… at an awful lot of things. “Safe spaces”?

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    jlj
    jlj
    10 years ago

    People should be angry. there are a lot of justifiable reasons to be angry not the least of which are the twin curses that occupy high positions in dc and NYC. Nonetheless,the left as part of the grand scheme has politicized “anger” to make it appear that those who express anger, especially at the status quo as created by those aforementioned, are somehow unstable and or Dangerous.

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