All Brooklyn news
Neighborhood Map
Bay Ridge
  • Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights
Brooklyn Heights
  • Downtown, DUMBO
Carroll Gardens
  • Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Boerum Hill
Fort Greene
  • Clinton Hill, Crown Heights
North Brooklyn
  • Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
Park Slope
  • Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Greenwood Heights
GO Brooklyn
Dining Guide
Where to GO
Events calendar
Classifieds
The Brooklyn Wire
Not Just Nets
Police Blotter
Perspective
Parenting
Politics
Transit
Podcasts
Brooklyn Cyclones
Special sections
About The Paper
Mobile site
Twitter
Facebook
RSS Feeds

Knife-wielding duo robs woman on Fifth Avenue

By Colin Mixson
for The Brooklyn Paper

Tools

Print this story
Facebook this
Tweet this
Digg this
Del.icio.us

68th Precinct

Bay Ridge—Dyker Heights

Girly goons

Two knife-wielding dames mugged a woman on Fifth Avenue on Jan. 16.

Waterford on the Bay

The victim said she was near 84th Street at 4 pm when she was approached by the duo. One of them brandished a knife and pressed it to the victim’s throat before taking $515 from her and fleeing.

Construction crook

A thief robbed a construction site on 83rd Street on Jan. 20.

The victim told cops he left the job site between Colonial Road and Ridge Boulevard at 6 pm, and returned the next morning to find that the site’s front door was unlocked and more than $1,000 worth of power tools and construction equipment had been nabbed. The victim told police that multiple people had access to the key for the site.

Wallet diving

A goon pilfered a woman’s car on Fort Hamilton Parkway on Jan. 16.

The victim said she parked her car near 68th Street at around 11:30 pm and returned at 3:30 am to find her passenger-side window smashed and her wallet, which contained credit cards and a driver’s license, missing.

Register robbery

A crook stole cash from a business on Third Avenue on Jan. 16.

The owner said the thief forced his way through the front door of the business between 76th Street and Bay Ridge Parkway sometime after 11 pm, grabbing a cash register containing $280. The register itself was worth $500.

— Colin Mixson

Reach reporter Dan MacLeod at dmacleod@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-4507.

©2012 Community Newspaper Group

←Greenpoint: Thieves beat man for iPhone
→Bay Ridge: Perp asks victim for ‘favor’ — steals iPhone

Reader Feedback

Enter your comment below

By submitting this comment, you agree to the following terms:

You agree that you, and not BrooklynPaper.com or its affiliates, are fully responsible for the content that you post. You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening or sexually-oriented material or any material that may violate applicable law; doing so may lead to the removal of your post and to your being permanently banned from posting to the site. You grant to BrooklynPaper.com the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content in whole or in part world-wide and to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.

First name
Last name
Your neighborhood
Email address
Daytime phone

Your letter must be signed and include all of the information requested above. (Only your name and neighborhood are published with the letter.) Letters should be as brief as possible; while they may discuss any topic of interest to our readers, priority will be given to letters that relate to stories covered by The Brooklyn Paper.

Letters will be edited at the sole discretion of the editor, may be published in whole or part in any media, and upon publication become the property of The Brooklyn Paper. The earlier in the week you send your letter, the better.

Links