Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'muggings'
September 17, 2008
The music has stopped at McCarren Park Pool, the hipsters have moved on to other concrete pastures, and it looks like crooks have been taking advantage of the area. The Brooklyn Paper has two accounts of recent muggings, reporting that "a thug shoved a woman and stole her purse at around 2 am...he threw her to the ground and warned, 'If you don’t stop struggling I’m really gonna hurt you.'" That same day someone attacked......
Continue Reading "From Concerts to Crime at McCarren Park"July 4, 2008
Police believe the same suspect is behind seven muggings that have taken place on the Upper West Side/ Morningside Heights since April. According to the Post, he "first punches his victim in the face, then demands cash and valuables." The attacks have been on six woman and one man, many concentrated around West 92nd Street--at Columbus and West 92nd Street, West End and West 92nd, on West 92nd off West End, West 81st and......
Continue Reading "Police Search for Serial Mugger"
