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https://youtube.com/watch?v=HwIl22njzYI A 66-year-old man managed to beat back three attackers who tried to rob him in an elevator in Coney Island, police say. The attempted robbery occurred at about 7pm on Monday, June 15, in a building near West 33rd Street and Surf Avenue. According
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Updated 7:27pm Following the armed robbery of a taxi driver at Church and Flatbush Avenues Woodruff and Flatbush Avenues late this afternoon, as well as a series of muggings in our neighborhood, the NYPD has arrested two people. After two men robbed a cab driver at gunpoint at Woodruff
79th precinct
Police in the 79th Precinct are looking for a man they say threatened a woman and child at knifepoint, then made off with their belongings on Monday afternoon. Cops say at about 2:45pm on November 10, the victim was exiting the elevator at her Franklin and Dekalb area apartment
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A warm and pleasant evening turned violent after a woman was mugged on the corner of 12th Street and 6th Avenue Friday. According to a neighbor on the scene, the woman was attacked around 7pm on April 11 by four teenage boys. “She screamed and people literally came running from
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A 7th grade boy was robbed after leaving school to pick up his younger sibling on Tuesday afternoon, and it may be one of many similar attacks to middle school kids in the area recently. The boy’s mother tells us that he was followed by two teenage boys as
brighton beach subway station
Source: GerritsenBeach.net / FlickrThe NYPD is searching for two men who assaulted and robbed a 60-year-old man on the stairs of the Brighton Beach subway station. Brooklyn News is reporting [http://www.brooklynews.com/2013/08/60-year-old-beaten-robbed-in-brighton-beach-subway-station/] that the suspects are at-large. The incident happened Wednesday at 1 p.m.
iphone thief
Source: NYPD via brooklynews.comThe NYPD are after a thief who snatched a woman’s iPhone on the F Train. The Brooklyn News reported [http://www.brooklynews.com/042913-iphone-thief-on-brooklyn-f-train/] that the thief, described as black male in his 20s, grabbed the 22-year-old woman’s iPhone from her hands on a
brooklyn bike patrol
Heads up, South Slope. The winter months tend to be a bit slow for the guys over at the Brooklyn Bike Patrol [https://www.facebook.com/BROOKLYNBIKEPATROL?fref=ts]. As a result, they are closing shop on Sundays and Mondays for the remainder of February. They’ll be back to
mugging
A neighbor on the Ditmas Park Listserv is reporting an assault on East 17th between Dorchester and Ditmas tonight. > A young man was mugged tonight at about 8 p.m. on East 17th, [a neighbor] heard the young man screaming for help and shouted are you okay. > The