By Daniel Katzive
The Upper West Side tire slasher or slashers have struck again. Five cars parked on the northside of West 70th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and West End Avenue appear to have been hit overnight.
West Side Rag found three cars still parked on the street with a single slashed driver-side tire as of 9 a.m., and a fourth with a temporary “donut” whose driver confirmed he had replaced a flat this morning.
Drivers still on the scene said five cars had been affected overall and that police had been by to take a report. One of the drivers was able to confirm the slashing occurred overnight — he came out to move his car for street cleaning and discovered the damage.
This incident follows a weekend spree which saw more than a dozen cars with tires slashed on Riverside Drive and West End Avenue in the West 80s and 90s.
This is a developing story and WSR will update as we get more information.
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were is all the video surveillance when we need it? this is being done by a local domestic terrorist.
This is undoubtedly a rogue bike lobby environmental kook
Paid protestors for the bike lobby
I have to believe this is sarcastic; the alternative is too sad to contemplate.
It was worse in the ’80s.
Or was it better?
I’m so confused.
Rent was affordable, food was affordable, people were nicer.
And oh yeh, Mayor Ed Kock wasn’t a criminal.
“I love a parade.”
I miss the big guy!
I was just thinking about him yesterday. He helped clean up Dog Doo park.
People might have been nicer–hatred and racism weren’t normalized. But rent and food weren’t considered very affordable by most people who lived here then. And as for crime, well it was much higher–and many, many cars were broken into every night for their radios.
But so what? What does that have to do with anything?
I never see police cars simply patrolling our neighborhood.
This is why people should know better than to park their cars on Riverside Av…e…..n………. Oh, wait.
Well apparently Riverside Drive extends across all over the Upper West side
CLEARLY the perpetrator is a NJ resident trying to claim our street parking!
New Jersey residents by and large do not have the same animosity towards Manhattanites that people like you do. If anything there was a group called the tyre extinguishers that actually are radical urbanists that did vandalize tires on the UES. https://nypost.com/2022/07/01/climate-activists-deflate-tires-on-40-suvs-in-nyc/
Environmental Terrorism.
For people who talk about the past….
Who gives a rats a$$ about the 70’s or 80’s
I care about NOW and whats happening now in the neighborhood we live in
If you talk about the 70s and 80s go build a time machine
19 cars’ tires slashed at the Midtown South Precinct yesterday. Coincidence or serial tire slasher? He, she, they’ll eventually be arrested and released.
These are the things we can’t have now:
1. Stores where the shelves are not locked up.
2. Cars parked on the street.
Not making a statement, just wanted to keep track.
Very few stores are actually locked up. The stores that don’t allow shoplifting and theft aren’t locked up. It’s the ones that have no security and prohibit their employees from taking any action against thieves.
When caught I’m sure Bragg will give this vandal a good talking to and then release them.
So, what is the city doing about this? It keeps happening. What are we doing differently now to prevent this?
My car got hit on 68th between Amsterdam and Broadway. I see at least three other cars on this block slashed too. Must have happened Wednesday night.
What do the street cameras show?
what do the cars with slashed tires have inn common? Out of state plates? Is this some kind of parking protest?
most that I saw had NY plates, so unlikely
The city needs to install cameras on RSD near the park. My van got broken into 6x since the start of the pandemic. if i can’t find parking on the side streets, i end up parking infront of my apartment building “no standing”…I eat a $65 ticket but at least the cameras from my apt building keep the van monitored.