60TH PRECINCT
Coney Island—Brighton Beach—
Seagate
Wire Weasel
A bandit nabbed 90 feet of electrical
wire from the meter room of a W.
33rd street public housing complex
on Jan. 14.
Employees told police that the
thieves got into the room between
Bayview and Neptune avenues at
around 3:30 am and stole $1,600
worth of wiring.
Fast food vandal
Ruffi ans vandalized a permanently
closed fast food restaurant
on Surf Avenue on Jan. 14.
Police said the brutes ripped the
front door off the hinges and broke
glass at the location at the intersection
of W. 12th Street which they
discovered at around 1 am.
— Jessica Parks
62ND PRECINCT
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Stone cold crime
Police arrested a woman for allegedly
hitting a man with a brick
on W. Ninth Street on Jan. 12.
The victim told police that he and
the stranger got into an argument
between Avenue O and Avenue P at
8:25 pm before the suspect picked up
the brick and threw it at his leg.
Paramedics took the man to Coney
Island Hospital for treatment,
according to police reports.
Choked up
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
choking a woman inside a Benson
Avenue home on Jan. 15.
The 41-year-old victim told police
that she and the 23-year-old suspect
began arguing inside an apartment
building on the corner of Bay 31st
Street when the defendant brandished
a knife, hit the woman, and
put his hands around her neck.
At gunpoint
A low-life threatened to shoot a
man on 62nd Street on Jan. 14 and
ran off with $3,000.
The victim told police that the
robber opened his car door and
pointed a silver gun at him between
19th and 20th avenues at 6:15 am,
and the victim handed over his
wallet containing the cash and his
cellphone, which the robber threw
to the ground before hightailing it
away.
Betty boo!
Some thief stole a Betty Boop
statue and hundreds of dollars
worth of electronics from an 86th
Street basement on Jan. 11.
The victim told police that the
pilferer broke into the apartment
COURIER L 8 IFE, JANUARY 22-28, 2021
Man, 59, shot in broad
daylight on Bed-Stuy street
NYPD offi cers taped off the sidewalk after a man was shot. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
building’s basement between 17th
and 18th avenue at around 1:20 pm
and nabbed the statue and the electronics.
— Rose Adams
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Elder Skelter
A brute ambushed and robbed a
senior citizen at the Borough Hall
subway station on Jan. 13.
The 68-year-old victim told police
that the lout jumped him from
behind and put him in a chokehold
at 1:20 pm, before pushing the elderly
man to the ground, punching
him, and taking his wallet.
Chased away
A bank robber left empty handed
after trying to hold up a Flatbush
Avenue Chase branch on Jan. 15.
An employee told police that the
raider passed a note saying “Give
me the money now” to the teller inside
the bank between Livingston
and Nevins streets at 12:15 pm, but
soon fl ed without any loot.
‘Murder time’
Knife-wielding bandits bagged a
bunch of clothes from a Fulton Mall
chain store on Jan. 15.
An employee told police that the
shoplifters took shirts, pants, and
jackets from the store between Duffi
eld and Bridge streets at 4:15 pm
while brandishing a kitchen knife
saying, “It’s murder time,” before escaping
through the emergency exit.
A train a-hole
Police arrested a man for allegedly
hospitalizing another guy during a
brutal robbery on the A train near
the High Street station on Jan. 16.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly punched him in
the face several times and took his
wallet while heading south toward
Jay Street-MetroTech station at 6:10
am.
Police arrested the suspect
nearby at 6:45 am on felony robbery
charges, and paramedics brought
the victim to Cobble Hill hospital
for treatment of his head and jaw injuries,
according to police reports.
Cuffed!
Police collared two men for allegedly
robbing a Fulton Mall chain
store at knifepoint on Jan. 17.
An employee told police that the
defendants tried to take a bunch
of clothes without paying from the
clothing emporium between Gallatin
Place and Hoyt Street at 4:40
pm, with one of them cutting a store
worker’s hand with a knife.
Cops caught up with one of the
alleged robbers at Quincy Street
and Classon Avenue just after 5 pm,
and with the other one at Irving
Place and arrested both for felony
robbery charges.
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Cut back
Reprobates slashed a guy’s face
at the Clinton-Washington Avenues
station as payback for skipping their
relative in line on Jan. 11.
The victim told police that the
two toughs punched and slashed his
face at 11:30 am, before he made a
run for it to the C train.
The bruised victim also said that
he had gotten into an argument earlier
with a woman about his place
in a line at a nearby addiction treatment
center, and she threatened to
sic her brother and cousin on him.
Spike for spokes
A pair of knife-toting knaves
stole a deliveryman’s e-bike on Atlantic
Avenue on Jan. 14.
The victim told police that the
duo pulled him away from the bike
near Classon Avenue just before
7:30 pm and cycled off with it toward
Grand Avenue.
Cashing in
A fi lcher nabbed cash from a Fulton
Street cafe on Jan. 13.
Employees told police that the
bandit got in through the basement
of the eatery near S. Oxford Street
at 2 pm and took $250 in cash.
— Kevin Duggan
BY BEN VERDE
A 59-year old man was wounded
in a broad daylight shooting in
Bedford-Stuyvesant on Monday
morning, according to police.
Police say the victim was shot
three times inside 266 Madison
St. off Nostrand Avenue at around
10:10 am, before the gunmen fl ed
in a silver sedan.
The victim was transported to
Woodhull Hospital where he is expected
to survive. No arrests have
been made and the investigation is
ongoing, according to authorities.
The daytime shooting comes
after a year in which New York
— particularly neighborhoods
in central Brooklyn — saw a dramatic
rise in gun violence spurred
in part by the pandemic.
According to Police Department
statistics, police confronted
a 97 percent increase in shooting
incidents in 2020 compared to
2019. Meanwhile, overall crime in
New York City reached a record
low in 2020.