By Daniel Katzive
A BMW SUV was stolen at gunpoint Sunday on Riverside Boulevard, police confirmed to West Side Rag. As of 11 a.m. on Monday, there have been no arrests, NYPD added.
A police department spokesperson told West Side Rag that at around noon on Sunday, a 57-year old woman in a BMW X7 outside of 200 Riverside Boulevard was approached by two men with a firearm who forcibly removed her from the car and drove it away. She was uninjured.
A bystander who tried to intervene was also threatened, NYPD added to the Rag.
Police also confirmed that a similar carjacking incident the previous Sunday, in which a Mercedes-Benz was taken from a woman at gunpoint, remains open and unsolved. NYPD did not say whether the two cases were connected.
The investigation remains ongoing.
We will update this article when further information is available.
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It should be a weekly column name, like Throwback Thursdays:
UWS Sunday Carjackings: 200 Riverside Boulevard
See if there was a car parked behind the victim’s vehicle like in the case by AMC last week . Cops should release pictures…
Seriously, why? WHY?!?! WHEN PEOPLE COMMIT ANY THEFT OR VIOLENT CRIMES, LOCK THEM UP ON THE FIRST OFFENSE, ONE YEAR MINIMUM. 2ND OFFENSE, 3 YEARS. 3RD OFFENSE, 8 YEARS. 4th OFFENSE, 15 YEARS
How do you know they were let out of jail? Do you have inside information on the perps?
Obvious thing to wonder: are these the same two guys who carjacked a Mercedes (I think) with a woman sitting inside a few days ago?
These violent criminals should not be out on the streets
Time for another Brewer / Hoylman “rah-rah” get together on how we can solve neighborhood problems. We can all feel productive for a day and then go back to doing absolutely nothing but gaslighting…..
Exactly. They can take a stroll through the neighborhood like they did by the McDonalds.
Someone needs to ask the new NYPD Commissioner to call her staff together and find out just what happened to all the ANTI TERROR money taxpayers have shelled out in over two decades since 9/11 if we can’t shut off all the Manhattan bridges and tunnels five minutes after an alert of this sort
It’s not worth shutting down the City for one car. Better yet, lock the perps up and throw away the key for a few years, and it will solve the problem.
Fine then. Change “shut off” to “station cops at all the checkpoints and monitor…”
Is this another carjacking of another woman? Wow. I hope they are both ok
Make a better decision at the ballot box.
If not, this will continue.
Plesae lock up and hold people and get rid of “bail reform.”
Or just maybe reform bail reform. Surely you don’t think that whether you sit in jail awaiting trial should depend on whether you’re rich, right?
For those assuming incorrectly, there is a minimum 5 year sentence for criminal use of a firearm during a felony. So no, if these people are caught and convicted, they will not be released.
This is not true. First of all if they are under 18, they will not do 5 years. Second of all, even if sentenced to 5 years, with time for good behavior they will be out in what, 3 years?
It’s incredibly concerning that these daily crimes are being commonplace and our elected representatives are saying and doing nothing about it, focusing and spending their efforts and our money on anything and everything else
Best not to have an expensive car. You become a target.
Not entirely true – a family member drives a solid but well-dented 2007 Toyota sedan – never expensive, couldn’t look new if it tried – which has been broken in to twice in the last 4 years. Door opened, glove compartment contents dumped on floor: thieves take INFORMATION (VIN, insurance info) to make fraudulent claims. Little harm to the car, thankfully, but insurance and credit info for the owner needs to be carefully watched. Opportunists of every kind in this town.
I thought that there was some Toyota model that was the most broken-into model of all time because there are so many that the parts are easily marketable. Is it that model?
It is way past time that victims of crime were given some rights. Police arrest these people when they find them and the DA lets them go. I’m tired of it.
To be fair the law here is pretty straightforward…use of a firearm in the act of committing a felony (car jacking) is a minimum of 5 years in prison. Now…if they are given bail is a whole other issue.
Alternative title: “Cowards with guns force woman out of her car, and hijack it.” Also, perhaps time for car owners (especially women), to install hidden “ring” like cameras in their cars, so we can all see the visages of such (possibly serial) criminals …
I do not drive and therefore do not understand details surrounding car ownership, but aren’t all vehicles registered? Can these guys simply replace the license plates and get away with it? Is it that easy?
They chop it up for parts.
We need to vote BRAGG out. The Manhattan red wave needs to continue
A patrol vehicle at the narrow entrance to the West Side Highway would solve the problem.
As usual no description of the 2 men.
Complaining here will only help so much – at least direct the comments to a local official responsible for neighborhood safety.
Email the Neighborhood Coordination Officers for Precinct 20A:
timothy.sanes@nypd.org
rawdi.ali@nypd.org
And the NCO Supervisor:
brian.stanton@nypd.org
Call Gail Brewer’a office (for whatever it’s worth): 212-873-0282
I am sure others can offer additional contacts.
Can’t vehicles be fitted with tracking devices? That would put a stop to this activity.
A people still wonder why Democrats are doing poorly on elections. NYC has been poorly managed for 20 years now. Seriously, it is time to make NYC safe again.
Only two cases, but a couple of interesting similarities suggest UWS time & place vulnerability . Relatively little traffic on Sunday morning, early afternoon. Both locations, especially Riverside Blvd, are close to northbound HH Parkway entrance ramps. High-end cars. I would guess thieves went north on HH, across GW bridge to NJ Tpk, then down to Port Newark where they’ll be loaded on ships and off to Eastern Europe or West Africa.
Most apt complexes like this have 24-hour video monitors
Time to start locking car doors. I know -taking a chance that they won’t shoot you through the door – would be interested to know if they opened door and them waived gun around