By Gus Saltonstall
A woman sitting in her Mercedes-Benz on the Upper West Side Sunday morning had her car stolen at gunpoint, a police spokesperson confirmed to West Side Rag.
The 50-year-old woman was sitting in the car shortly before 10 a.m at West 84th Street and Broadway, when two people approached her, flashed a gun, and told her to get out of the vehicle, police said.
The woman exited the car, and the two perpetrators hopped into the Mercedes and drove away, NYPD said.
There have been no arrests as of 6 p.m. on Sunday, and police did not have a description of the suspects.
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Would love updates on this one. Haven’t seen what happens to carjackers yet in this city. Very much hope to hear more.
Everything is fine. Nothing to see here. 8MM people live here, so no big deal. Wake up!
People wonder why I always lock the doors when sitting inside a car.
You are aware that bullets penetrate glass, right?
Denton: It was raining cats and dogs yesterday.
The fact that this can happen in broad daylight on Broadway, really speaks to how poorly this city is being run. This mayor keeps on saying crime is down, the Citizen app shows a much different story. We need to get more police out of their cars, and walking the beat, like the “old days”.
Property taxes are soaring and services are not.
How long, or how bad a thing has to happen for Upper West Siders go to their windows and scream “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore”? Let’s all think about how we can turn the tide to not make our “hood”, a place for criminals to prey on us!
It’s time people….
OMG, the sky MUST be falling!
Fact: Cars are harder to steal than ever, so what happens? Thieves resort to carjackings because the occupant is in the car and the key is available to them.
FACT: There are 35,000 carjackings a year in the US, almost 100 a day.
IF New York’s experience were typical, there’d be about 2 a day in the City and guess what?
There ain’t.
WHY?
Because we remain one of the safest cities in the country.
Tell that to the 3 people MURDERED on the street by a mentally ill man today. I didn’t feel safe when someone mentally ill was coming toward me before today and I sure as hell don’t feel safe now.
I don’t care what your stats are.
Feelings Aren’t Facts.
And ‘facts’ aren’t Reality.
I’d be interested in knowing what the policies towards homeless and mentally ill are of the politicians you would have us vote for.
It’s not just the police and the mayor. It’s the state legislature and the governor with the Raise the Age law, eliminate bail for most crimes, and so forth. Also, how many crimes are being committed by illegal immigrants?
Not nearly as many as some people/some media make it seem. For the most part, statistics show that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crime because they do not want to jeopardize their ability to stay in the country. On the other hand, if human beings are housed in poor situations and do not have any ability to work for money to provide for themselves and/or their families, we can end up in a Les Miserables type situation, so it is a complex problem that demands more resources and compassion.
It explains the need to Vote Better.
Yet I’m sure many will vote for Bragg again citing that
Crime is down
It was worse in the 70s
Republicans will take our freedoms away
Etc etc
Yep, he was too busy prosecuting a presidential candidate in an attempt to sway an election that his party got absolutely walloped in
this is deeply cynical. Bragg proved a case of business fraud and prosecuted it successfully. Would you prefer he not prosecute big shots who commit crimes?
Well, we are under threat by the President Elect and his henchmen anyway. We are threatened with a coonspiracy theorist who propounds that flouride poisons, is an anti-vaxer, doesn’t believe in science by experts, people with no government experience AT ALL, sex misconduct by the proposed attorney general and talk of taking down the whole. government.
So sorry you feel threatened but please don’t speak for all of us.
As far as the new appointees are concerned, we had very inept ones in the current administration solely based on identity politics criteria.
Remember Sam Brinton? Was in charge of our Energy Department, including nukes, no less.
https://www.kxii.com/2022/12/10/biden-official-accused-stealing-luggage-airport-warrant-issued-police-say/
he wasn’t “in charge of the Energy Department.” He was a Deputy Assistant Secretary. There are probably 20-50 of these in the Department of Energy.
A mere three blocks away from the 20th precinct.
The crime’s proximity to a police precinct is totally irrelevant. It’s not like there’s a magic force field emanating from the precinct and the closer one is to it, the better they’re protected. Be realistic.
It’s not just the carjackings and the sucker punches and the robberies; it’s the endless stream of e-bikes running red lights, often going the wrong way. WHERE ARE THE POLICE?
Three blocks away.
That week reading about stories like these, and then get responses that nothing has changed, the upper west side is no less safe, crime has not gone up, quality life is the same, taxes are going up while services go down… This is why you lose elections.
I live in the UWS since 1970. I invite you to read the papers and look for youtube videos of that era, and the 80’s. That was bad. Today, in our little enclave, not as bad as it used to be. You want zero crime? Move to the top of Mt. Denali and enjoy the solitude. Misinformation is killing us, and to the point of sanity losing at the elections.
I believe we observed this car (a white G-wagon) being driven through the intersection at 96th and Broadway in a very dangerous way, tailed by another sports car, then blow a red light at West End and Drive onto the West Side Highway. It was incredibly dangerous and I was half waiting for the police to come racing behind them. I hope they are able to find the car–please update!
Nelly,
The NYPD has been criticized for following/pursuing crime suspects who are in cars due to the concern that the suspects are more likely to speed and harm a pedestrian or bicyclist.
For example, bicycle advocates faulted the NYPD when a burglary suspect struck and killed a bicyclist last month, at night in Queens.
Media reports suggested that the NYPD was following but not speeding – but the suspect speeded away and crashed into the bicyclist
https://nypost.com/2024/10/23/us-news/burglary-suspect-fatally-strikes-cyclist-with-pick-up-truck-while-trying-to-evade-cops-in-nyc/
On that note – I drive on the West Side Highway coming back from NJ 1-2x a week. There is rarely a time when there is NOT dangerous drag racing and weaving (90mph+) happening between the GW bridge and 72nd street, yet there is never a police presence on that stretch. It is a true shame that there seems to be a lack of enforcement of so many things, including e-bikes parked on sidewalks, or driving erratically, against traffic or riding on the sidewalk, in front of restaurants (e.g. Wonder, Parm, McDonalds, etc.). I want to do something to effect change – because the current quality of life is deteriorating rapidly. And no, the answer is not “You live in NYC, get over it.” We can expect and do better.
Other than voting Republican (assuming that would help, and NOT assuming you’d so vote!), do you have any ideas about what to do to effect change? People have been participating with EVSA for at least two years and almost nothing has changed re e-vehicles.
NYPD Highway 1 covers two boroughs Manhattan and the Bronx whereas the other NYPD Highway units only cover one borough.
This morning a guy w/mental health issues, living in a homeless shelter, stabbed three people on the UES, killing two. He has eight prior arrests. Adams says “there’s a real question as to why he was on the street.”
Yeah, I’d say.
I assume you mean the guy who stabbed a man in Chelsea and then a man on E 30th by the FDR and then a woman by the UN? Or was there another incident on the UES?
That is definitely a real question, as well as the same question about the other several states he apparently had committed crimes in as well.
I’d ask a far more fundamental question, namely why, nearly 2.5 decades after 9/11, we (well, the NYPD/PANYNJ/MTAPD/Etc.) can’t shut down the bridges and tunnels 5 minutes after an alert.
Seems to me I recall a certain Deputy NYPD Commissioner, who’s now Sanitation Commissioner, discussing the taxpayer soaked anti TERROR measures on “Sixty Minutes” over a decade ago. She said she had a “ring of steel” of Automatic License Plate Reading (“ALPR”) cameras surrounding NYC, and if, say, they saw a plate belonging to a red VW but on a blue Chevy, the cops could and would shut that bridge roadway immediately.