By West Side Rag
Police are asking for the public’s help regarding an attack and robbery in Central Park last month, NYPD announced on Monday.
Around 8 p.m. on December 6, an 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl were walking in Central Park when a man snuck up behind them and pushed them both to the ground, police said. While on the ground, the attacker snatched the man’s wallet and cell phone from his pocket, NYPD added.
Police did not specify where in the park the attack took place.
The suspect then fled the scene, and the two victims were treated at the scene for minor injuries, police said.
NYPD released a photo on Monday of the suspect.
Anyone with information regarding 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).
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I’m pretty sure this guy is an engineering student at Columbia.
OK, I’m just kidding.
I thought it was funny
Not funny and not really that much of a resemblance
Kidding? What is wrong with you? This is not something to joke about–ever. What if those innocent victims were your sister or brother? What about their trauma, and that of their parents and friends?
oh my god, enough with the whining all the time
Calm down. Joking about things one way we survive.
The joke was about the piece of trash who committed the crime. Maybe it wasn’t funny, but get over it.
It wasn’t spit out coffee funny, but I got a chuckle.
How is this even remotely funny?
no need to say this
This occurred last month? NYPD has made no progress on this case for 25+ days and they are just alerting the public now?
Walking in the park after dark is always a bad idea.
When it gets dark at 5 p.m. in the winter, it’s unavoidable for some of us. And I would hate to miss the occasional star and moon-gazing we do there, long after sunset.
I have been walking in Central Park after dark for a very long time and have had very little trouble over all those years. One time, a branch almost fell on me in a rainstorm. Another time, I stopped a bunch of pre-teen boys from setting a trash can on fire.
There are always so many dog walkers on the main paths with me that I never feel unsafe. I probably wouldn’t walk alone in the more remote parts of the Ramble or the North Woods, but much of the park feels quite safe to me.
Then why the lampposts in it?
You should be able to walk in the park at 2:00 a.m. without any issue. Just like you can in Japan, just like you can in Finland. Not in New York though. . . .
Keep telling yourself that.
Technically, Central Park closes at 1:00 AM.
It should closed at dusk they could put a wall around it and close the gates at that time.
There’s already a wall around it. And while that wall definitely has gates (https://www.centralpark.com/blog/gates-d9/), there’s no way to close them. What, exactly, are you looking for?
or many other places as well to be honest–it’snot just New York. I would like to know exactly where this occured????
I was walking in the park at 1:00 am during the Bloomberg years and ran into Conan O’Brien walking his dog. Different times
And you were risking injury to yourself.
People risk injury every day.
Cabs are risky.
Walking on icy sidewalks is risky.
Surgery is risky.
Eating food prepared by someone else is risky.
Flying is risky.
Etc.
Go ahead, live a little. Unless you can quantify the risk with reasonable data and show that it’s unacceptable, you’re just living in fear without rational justification.
It was a bad idea in the 70s and 80s. It was not a bad idea for 20 years before COVID. Now it’s becoming a bad idea again. That’s not progress and we need to elect politicians who will fix it by enforcing laws.
What about attacking and robbing people. Is that a bad idea?
Excellent answer for Bill
Yes, but a worse idea is to make any comparison between the two behaviors. Central Park after dark has never and will never be a good idea.
So it’s never a good idea to see Shakespeare in the Park? The Philharmonic? Fireworks? The NYE run?
It’s never a good idea after 4pm in early January?
In New York ?
Absolutely not.
It is a walk in the park
Was there a Mamdani mental health counselor assigned to this case yet?
Not necessary.
yeah.
Imagine that.
No location ?
A month later ?
Vote better.
I love how you actually edited this comment. Was that to make it more or less silly?
Thanx, I try.
We should be able to walk in the park at anytime, but it’s a bad idea to do so after dark. That doesn’t mean we should blame the victims. The blame goes to the criminal and his parents, who did a less than sterling job of raising him.
It’s not always a bad idea to enter the park after dark. What an absolutely silly notion.
What proportion of people in the park after dark are assaulted? 80%? 50%? 10%? .0001%?
If you want to live with zero risk, then it’s a bad idea. But then so is walking on the sidewalk, flying on a plane, and taking an aspirin.
Walking in Central Park at 8pm – when it is dark – was not a great idea.
You would be amazed how vibrant the park can be after dark.
I will gladly accept some risk to enjoy my life and my city.
At least he didn’t hit them in the head with a bat or stab them or flourish a gun.
I’m a liberal,I hope this doesn’t affect his immigration status. Diversity is our strength.
You are, are you? Then show us your papers — and stop resisting.
I wonder how they decided this person is a suspect. Did one of the people attacked actually have a chance to take this photo?
It wasn’t funny. It was tired and trite