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# What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Paper?
- URL: https://bklyner.com/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-paper-parkslopestoop/
- Published: 2013-12-23T15:06:38.000Z
- Updated: 2013-12-23T15:06:38.000Z
- Author: Mary Bakija
- Tags: Newspapers, Passive Aggressive Notes, thefts, #API-Imported

![NY Times Thief, photo by neighbor John C](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/pss_nytimesthief_johnc-600x772.jpg)

Worrying about delivered packages being stolen from your stoop is understandable; worrying about your newspaper being lifted seems largely unnecessary. But it seems there’s a well-read thief hitting a stoop on Berkeley Place near 7th Avenue, as this sign photographed by neighbor John Classon shows. It reads:

> Dear New York Times Thief,

> Please stop taking our New York Times, we really like reading it.

> There are plenty more for you around the corner, all you have to do is buy one for $2.50.

> Thanks, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year,

> Your Neighbors

It’s true, a [market](http://www.yelp.com/biz/7th-avenue-gourmet-brooklyn?ref=bklyner.com) is literally steps away on the corner or 7th Ave and Berkeley, and they’ve got the Times for sale there, but do you think a thief would be swayed by that info? And we’re guessing this must happen to other neighbors — have you ever woken up to find your newspaper missing from your stoop? If it’s happened regularly, what, if anything, have you done about it? Did anything work?

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