Two robbers — including one using brass knuckles — beat up a man who was waiting for the A train at Columbus Circle on Sunday morning around 5 a.m., police said. NYPD sent out the images above and surveillance video below of the suspects.
“The two suspects approached the 25 year-old male victim and knocked him to the ground. Both of the suspects punched and kicked the victim while he was on the floor; one of the suspects wore brass knuckles during the assault. They then removed his property and $350 in cash. Both of the suspects fled the station on a southbound “A” train. The victim suffered bruising and lacerations to his face; he was treated at an area hospital.
The first individual is a male, Hispanic, in his 30s, 5’8″ to 5’10”; last seen wearing a gray hooded sweater and light colored pants.
The second individual is a male, black, in his 30s, 5’8″ to 5’10”; last seen wearing a gray t-shirt, a black long sleeved undershirt and black pants.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident 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. All calls are strictly confidential.”
How does this stop? When will the Mayor wake the F up already!! this is heartbreaking.
Manny, the problem is that nobody thinks this will happen to them, their child, their dad. It always happens to somebody else.
And, of course, people who do this kind of thing carry brass knuckles around without fear now that stop and frisk is gone.
In my opinion, I think stop and frisk should be implemented on a scale that would make thugs’ heads spin. I personally don’t think this kind of thing happening every day somewhere on the UWS is acceptable.
Animals lurking in the bowels of the city for unsuspecting citizens. Mayor, I know you are all about protecting these scum but you owe it to ALL New Yorkers to fix this.
Please, let’s not compare animals to humans – it’s not at all fair to animals.
The FBI just today realsed the figures for 2015 and it show a 4% increase in violent crime over 2014.
The Crime Rate in the United States, 2015 report reveals an increase in violent crime and a decrease in property crime when compared to 2014 data. Details
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/latest-crime-statistics-released?utm_campaign=email-Immediate&utm_medium=email&utm_source=fbi-top-stories&utm_content=589432
Shoot to kill both of them.
No trial in this case…
…or end the court system entirely?
Please clarify your position.
It almost appears that the muggers are preening for the camera, no fear of being caught whatsoever. Wasn’t the prospect of this happening at the Columbus Circle station mentioned in a previous thread?
If you are on the subway or waiting for a subway after midnight, you are taking your life into your own hands. Does not matter who is mayor. The hours criminals work are after the sun goes down. Get some common sense. Same goes for those who insist on walking or jogging in Central or Riverside Park 11pm – 5am.
And Ed Koch said it was just the way New York was but then Rudy/Bratton came a long and changed that. It is a losers attitude to assume this is how it should be.
Quit victim blaming. Everyone should be safe 24/7 and if they are not, then resources should be applied until they are.
@Eric @Jay I am not victim blaming. NYC is not a utopian society, and no matter how much you want to believe that we should all be safe 24/7, that is not reality. You both sound like petulant children; maybe you are millenials (would not surprise me), who demand what they want, without paying attention to what can actually be done. NYC is not a university campus. If you have to go to work and be on a subway platform at 5am, you are risking your life. Take a bus, try and get a different job, take an uber, but subway platform at 5am can be your end.
Wow. “Get a different job?” Seriously? I work in television, a job that often comes with early morning and/or late night hours (often both). I worked hard and spent a long time in school to work in a field that I love; am I supposed to just abandon my career? “Take an Uber” is equally ridiculous–once every now and then, sure, but taking a cab or car to and from work every day is simply not a luxury that most of us can afford. (Depending on where I happen to be working, that could add anywhere from $20-$60+ to my daily budget, which just isn’t a realistic option for me.) As for the buses, the wait time in the early morning hours is often unrealistic, and the few times I tried it, I felt much less safe standing alone at a bus stop in the darkness than I do standing in a well-lit subway station in front of the station agent’s booth.
@Mark NYC is not a university campus. I live in Manhattan. @Jay This is the second time you have put words in my mouth such as “If you are out past 10pm”, and, bizarrely, bring up victims of rape and that they should wear burqas. Stop bringing up the “women dressed sexy” argument, I want no part of that discussion and it has no bearing on this. I said FIVE AM. Not 10pm. And 11pm – 5am in Central Park and Riverside Park. If you are on any subway platform at 5am because as you say “went to visit friends”, you are risking your life. I do not “bolt my door” after dark, but I do not take a subway after 11pm. After 11pm I take the bus (M3, M4, or M10), or GETT (GETT deal is $8 to anywhere in Manhattan if it is a 30 minute drive), or Uber Pool which comes out to $10 – $13. @RF If you have a job which entails risking your life (I consider waiting on a NYC subway platform at 5am as risking your life), that is terrible. I would rather add double the amount of time to my trip and take a bus or two than be on the subway platform at 5am. This city is overworked by these poor cops who make no money and the stress level is off the charts and since there is no more stop and frisk, there is a much greater chance of a cop getting shot. NOT TO MENTION the terrorist group Black Lives Matter which encourages the psychos to attack and kill cops (RIP Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu), so no, there will be no cops to protect you on the subway platform, DiBlasio or otherwise. Deal with it.
Actually, NYC is many things including a university campus.
You should try to get out and learn a bit about the city in which you say you live.
Perhaps you really live in New Jersey.
UWSHebrew,
So you are saying if you are out past 10 PM, you deserve to be mugged. Sorry, but people have to work or should be able to visit friends. You may shut yourself in behind two deadbolts once the sun goes down, but the rest of the world shouldn’t have to.
This isn’t Afghanistan, but your comments seem to align with some of the victim blaming that occurs there. I hope you don’t believe women should wear burqas to prevent harassment, either.
Don’t be silly. Almost ALL these kinds of things which are happening on an almost daily basis now on the UWS are happening during the hours of 10am and 8pm. This city and country are rotting and nobody can say anything about it or does anything about it. Somewhere, we just feel that we need to accept this kind of thing. Heck, we couldn’t even implement 3 strikes and you’re out! Can’ you imagine, 3 VIOLENT felonies and even then people are afraid to put the person behind bars for life? Insanity manifested.
So it’s the victims fault for being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Tell us your views on rape.
hey! you dreamers who yearn for the 70s and 80s—this is part of that. the pickin’s is lookin’ good again.
People have to go to work or come home from work. It’s appalling that we are back to open season on humans in NYC. THE MTA decided to take away station personnel and there are no police to be found.
But never mind the devotees are getting their pice of the pie!
I meant to say DEVELOPERS ARE GETTING THEIR PIECE OF THE PIE, Drat that autocorrect.
Such nice robbers.
So well dressed.
Maybe with the money they stole the one
with his pants down can buy a belt to keep
them up.
But than again, these maggots don’t buy
things – they just rob and steal.
Time to think of November 2017.
Time to send mayor BdB into a long deserving retirement.
New York City – just like I pictured it –
-Stevie Wonder-1977
Can We please bring stop and frisk back!!!!
There should be more NYPD officers on patrol in Columbus Circle. It is a major transit hub. Also, there should be an increase in active live monitored cameras.
Who carries $350 in cash ? Just curious if they knew the target had a large sum of $$ on them at the time. Check the bank machine cameras for follow-up.
In addition, these criminals should be brought to the public square and have their hands cut off.
“In addition, these criminals should be brought to the public square and have their hands cut off.”
with so many places to choose from, why have you chosen the place where this is going to happen?
where this is *NOT* going to happen?
Zzzzzzzzzzz…what a bore
Let’s be honest, Woody: your Comments are of no value, contribute nothing, and are declining from there.
I replied to you most recent worthless Comment with a kind word: “You are not mandated to read each and every Comment. Free yourself!”
But after 3 of your wasted comments, I must be more honest: Quit obsessing with me and try to find something else in your life that will be more satisfying.
Although, I believe that the odds of that are infinitesimal, one can hope.
cant cut their hands off….you’d have to pay them disability for the rest of their lives
Do all the people here calling for stop and frisk understand that it was declared unconstitutional AND ineffective?
I understand it might sound appealing, but understand that it did very little to bring crime down in NYC, or anywhere for that matter.
It wasn’t declared unconstitutional, actually. Not that it was good policy.
actually, it was, and the DiBlas administration elected not to pursue an appeal. A winnable appeal actually.
I’d be interested in your analysis on that; I don’t think it was an easy appeal at all; the unconstitutionality of it seems obvious.
Actually, it was:
On August 12, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the stop and frisk practice was unconstitutional and directed the Police to adopt a written policy to specify where such stops are authorized
IT WAS NOT. A fact is a fact. And the official studies on actual stop, question, frisk prove their effectiveness in removing guns from the street. Sorry.
No, it was unconstitutional as applied, not unconstitutional per se. The city would be free to reinstitute stop and frisk so long as they do it in a non-discriminatory manner.
I would be curious to hear your response to this piece:
https://www.city-journal.org/html/hillarys-debate-lies-14759.html
Siddhartha,
I have to believe that you did not read the piece I linked to, otherwise I am not sure why you would provide me with a link to a fact-check of the whole debate by NPR. I suspect that you saw that the piece was at City Journal, and that the title said “Hillary’s Debate Lies,” and figured it was some sort of general article about the debate. It’s not. I linked to it because it is about the one very specific topic that this thread is about — crime. And it has a lot of data that is relevant to this discussion, which it seems you would prefer not to address because it doesn’t fit your narrative. (By the way, the idea that NPR is non-partisan is laughable. At least the Manhattan Institute is open about its ideology.)
Sid,
NPR is about as “bipartisan” as the Commission on Presidential Debates. Both have their candidate’s back.
Hi Steven,
Thanks for the link. That’s an editorial published by a partisan think-tank. If you’d like to read up on the facts, I suggest a a respected, bipartisan authority (such as NPR). You can check their coverage here:
https://www.npr.org/2016/09/26/495115346/fact-check-first-presidential-debate
And it happened at the subway stop where there is a police station.
Where are Bruce and the DiBlasio apologists to tell us all is well and crime is down? What race is the victim? Im surprised they gave us a full description of the criminals. But this is no surprise. Crime is going up and will continue to increase. The Ferguson effect and the anti law and order policies of Obama DiBlasio etc will result in far more of this.
Not that anyone is going to catch these animals any time soon…however former MAYOR GIULIANI said JUST the other evening that the NYPD MAY stop & FRISK with PROBABLE cause. So, Mr. Lester Holt was IINCORRECT and Mr. Trump & Mr. Giuliani were correct. I’m sure this information can be found on line, or one can contact the former mayor. I wouldn’t trust the current one under ANY circumstances.
I have discussed this with officers at our local precinct, and they said there is a very high threshold for stop and frisk now. Effectively, the suspect must be actively committing a low level crime (such as dog at playground or smoking in park). So their hands are tied. And the public’s hands will soon be empty as we are robbed or worse.