Police are asking for help solving some recent crimes in and around the neighborhood.
– A man followed a 23-year-old woman into her apartment building at 101st Street and West End Avenue on April 10 at around 5:15 a.m. and assaulted her before stealing her bag. “He punched her in the face and fled with her purse worth $800. He punched her so hard that she suffered hearing loss in the left ear, sources said the victim claims,” according to the Post. CBS has posted the surveillance video of the man here; the image above is from that video.
– A man (pictured above) robbed the Chase bank at 67th street and Columbus on April 17 around 4:30 p.m. “Investigators released surveillance of the suspect, a man in his thirties, 6′ tall, who was wearing sunglasses and a Yankees cap,” according to ABC News. It’s not clear how much money he stole.
– A reader wrote in to tell us that three cars had their back windows smashed in on 95th street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue; she saw the damage on Saturday, so it likely happened Friday night.
– The man depicted in surveillance footage above is wanted for a mugging on the East side of Central Park. According to A Walk in the Park: “On Friday, April 10, 2015, at 11:50am, the victim, a 17-year-old male, was walking inside Central Park, in the vicinity of 60 Street and the East Drive when the suspects approached him and demanded his money. The victim complied and the suspect fled with an undetermined amount of money. There were no reported injuries. The suspect is a black male in his fifties, 5’10” tall, weighing 220 pounds.”
Anyone with information on these crimes should call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit tips to the Crime Stoppers website or text tips to 274637(CRIMES), then enter TIP577.
De Buffoonio time.
Thanks for the obligatory “De[Mayor’s Name} Time” comment. Because criminals are so politically motivated and aligned.
Denial much?
Crime actually started going down sharply under Dinkins… who passed a bill that put 1,000s of new cops on the street. (“Safe Streets Safe City”).
“Under Dinkins’ Safe Streets, Safe Cities program, crime in New York City decreased more dramatically and more rapidly, both in terms of actual numbers and percentage, than at any time in modern New York City history.[16] The rates of most crimes, including all categories of violent crime, made consecutive declines during the last 36 months of his four-year term, ending a 30-year upward spiral and initiating a trend of falling rates that continued beyond his term.[3] Despite the actual abating of crime, Dinkins was hurt by the perception that crime was out of control during his administration.[17][18] Dinkins also initiated a hiring program that expanded the police department nearly 25%. The New York Times reported, “He obtained the State Legislature’s permission to dedicate a tax to hire thousands of police officers, and he fought to preserve a portion of that anticrime money to keep schools open into the evening, an award-winning initiative that kept tens of thousands of teenagers off the street.”[18][19]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dinkins
And crime has continued to go down under De Blasio, in cases of some crimes quite sharply.
So i just wonder why when some people talk about Mayors who have been effective against crime, it is only Giuliani and Bloomberg and not also Dinkins and De Blasio?
Wow! Just wow!! I don’t even know what else to say….
Still waiting for the cries of racism for the nerve of actually reporting crime.
we don’t complain about “racism” when crime is reported. We complain about racism when people then USE that or other issues to make clearly racist comments.
Sonja – didn’t you know that there was absolutely no crime in New York when Giuliani and Bloomberg were the mayor? It all started after Bloomberg… 🙂
You can smiley face emoji all you want. But give credit where due.
They said high crime was a fact of life in NYC.
Guiliani and Bloomberg proved that wrong.
Clearly we are headed in the wrong direction.
Yesterday I passed a car just off the corner of 74th Street and West End Avenue (between WEA & B’way) also with it’s back side window smashed…glass all over the sidewalk.
Dont leave anything visible in the car as the thieves break the windows and steal.
Yeah, I saw that as well yesterday evening around 10ish. It was a greyish Ford Escape or similar.
I am reading this from beautiful Palm Beach. The hell with NYC. 23 shootings in NYC yesterday and barely a mention in the press.
I’m sure the more conservative posters on this site are thrilled at the de-criminalization city council is proposing. That mixed with the xenophobic fear of graffiti must have a few people’s blood pressure on the rise.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry how some of you characters on this site are more outraged by the fact that crime is being reported, rather than being outraged that crimes are actually being committed, in some cases right under your noses. It’s despicable that you don’t support one soul who speaks out against crime or wishes for a safer neighborhood. At the very least, you are bad neighbors. At the worst, you are as dangerous as the criminals themselves, for you create an atmosphere that it’s okay that cars are getting broken into, stores are getting robbed, kids are getting mugged, and women are getting raped. It’s the same head-in-the-sand mentality that laid waste to stretches of the UWS decades ago. Either you’re too young to remember those days, or too old to care anymore. Either way, you are in the minority.
what are you talking about? this is the biggest straw man argument…
has anyone on this site EVER complained about crime being reported? or ever condoned any sort of crime? certainly not in any comments i can see above.
What was that woman thinking on the 101 st mugging? Watch the video, she let the guy come right in behind her. Wow – she did exactly what NOT to do when a stranger is following you. She let herself be trapped.
Hey Mayor Blaz—how is that anti stop and frisk working out???SUPPORT YOUR POLICE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!
with every crime report, there’s always someone who brings up “stop and frisk.” they are almost always misinformed.
In fact, “stop and frisk” is still in effect, only under Constitutional guidelines. the police can still stop and frisk suspects of a crime or even people who they have reasonable belief are thinking of committing a crime. they can stop and frisk people who they believe to be carrying weapons, etc. they just have to have reasonable belief or reason. they stop and frisk tens of thousands of people every year.
what they NO LONGER do is stop and frisk using racial profiling. that means they won’t stop and frisk every youngish Black and Hispanic male who is walking down Broadway or some other street. this sort of mass racial profiling was instituted under Bloomberg.
now, if you want to re-institute preemptive racial profiling, you should argue for that… but just be clear what it is you are arguing for. and how discriminatory it is.
just to stop the Sky is Falling crowd from chastising me (oh, well, that’s not possible, but at least I’ll preempt one argument): this crime was horrible. And i hope they “get” the person who committed it.
De Blasio and Bratton have proven that crime can and will go down using reasonable, constitutional, and non-racist police tactics. Maybe some of you don’t want to accept it, but that is what has happened.
Thanks Bruce for another great post.
NYC – RIP
yup, no more racial profiling. it’s the end of civilization as we know it.
Time to take a vacation from NYC and see how life is when you are out of the pressure cooker.
There is life past “racial profiling” as you call it.
Bottom line Bruce, we are all in this together, and we all wish for N Y C to be the best it can, for all of us.
And, we have much more in common than not.
Enjoy the ride.
Hate the fact that because of administration’s misguided policies we are going back to the bad old days. I’ve loved being able to walk across the park. Don’t the people who make these policies know what it was like? Maybe they just don’t care about the quality of life for the rest of us who aren’t the governmental elites.