84th Precinct
Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–Downtown
Home invaded
An armed aggressor raided a Livingston Street apartment on Sept. 6, threatening the resident with a gun and stealing a ton of expensive jewelry including a half-dozen watches, the authorities said.
The 34-year-old victim, who lives between Nevins Street and Flatbush Avenue, said she was on the phone at 3:50 pm when the rapscallion rang her bell and she buzzed him in. When the fiend got to the apartment, he pulled out the gun and pressed it against her face, cops said.
He then took $6,000 in cash, six watches, including three Rolexes, a diamond ring, necklace, and a pair of earrings, according to a police report. The items were worth approximately $40,0000, officers said.
Hack attacks
Police reported two assaults on cab drivers in the precinct this week.
• A man attacked a hack who refused to pull a U-turn at the intersection of Hicks Street and Atlantic Avenue on Aug. 31, according to cops.
The 39-year-old driver said he was sitting in his car on Atlantic Avenue facing the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at 11 pm, when two guys and a woman approached him. One of the fares asked him to turn around, and when he refused the goon punched him twice in the face, according to a police report. Then the belligerent grabbed the cabbie’s cellphone, glasses, and hat, law enforcement officials said.
The driver ran down Atlantic towards Court Street looking for help, and the tough followed him, then stopped and smashed his phone on the ground, cops said.
• Another cabbie picked up a pair of guys from the corner of Bleeker Street and Bushwick Avenue in Bushwick at 9:30 pm on Sept. 4, police said.
The driver said they asked to be dropped off at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue, and when they arrived the galoots refused to pay their $24 fare.
The hack insisted that they pay, and one of the bandits grabbed a bag off the front passenger-side seat of the cab and they both took off running, according to a police report. The cabbie chased the guys but when he caught up to them they pushed, punched, and kicked him to the ground, officers said. The driver said his bag contained $290 in cash, a navigation system, and some paperwork, cops stated.
Sleeper creeper
Straphangers had a hard time this week, too, with three thefts reported aboard trains in the precinct.
• A sneak stole a man’s camera and computer from his backpack while he slept on a D train on Sept. 1, cops said.
The tired 27-year-old passenger told police he got on the Brooklyn-bound train in Manhattan at 12:40 pm and immediately fell asleep. He woke up when the train was at the Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center station and got off, cops said. At the station he realized his laptop, camera, and phone had been taken from his backpack, police said.
• A thief plucked a woman’s wallet from her purse while she rode a crowded D train on Sept. 4, according to police.
The 22-year-old victim said she boarded the Manhattan-bound D train at Bay Parkway at 7:45 am, and just before the train reached the Atlantic Avenue stop, she felt someone bump her from behind. After she got off the train, she realized the wallet was gone, cops said. She said the wallet contained $60 in cash and a credit card.
• A crook snatched a man’s cellphone from his hand on Sept. 7 as he rode a Brooklyn-bound A train, law enforcement officials said.
The 48-year-old victim said he was sitting on the train at 3 pm using his phone when the train pulled into the Hoyt–Schermerhorn station and a fleet-footed fiend snatched the phone from his hand and scrammed.
One-on-none
A thief stole a man’s bag as he played basketball in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Sept. 2, according to the authorities.
The 32-year-old ball player told police he was in the park near the corner of Joralemon and Furman streets at 10:15 pm and left his bag unattended while he played a game. He went to retrieve the bag at 10:40 pm, and it had disappeared, cops said. The victim said the bag contained $50 in cash and a debit card.
Teen cleaned out
A pair of teens robbed a younger kid of cash and a pair of sweatpants on Sept. 3 on Livingston Street, cops said.
The 13-year-old victim said he was between Nevins Street and Flatbush Avenue at 3:30 pm when the two toughs approached him. The bullies started asking him questions, then one of the older boys punched him in the face and grabbed $140 in cash from his pocket, according to NYPD officers.
Then the other tough grabbed a shopping bag from the kid’s hand and they both took off running down Flatbush Avenue towards Barclays Center, police recounted. The kid told police the bag contained a pair of sweatpants.
More teen trouble
A brute robbed a teen of cash and a pair of sneakers on the corner of State and Clinton streets on Sept. 7, cops said.
The 15-year-old victim said a tough guy approached him on the corner at 6:30 pm, and told him to give over his backpack. When he refused, the galoot punched him in the face, fished $25 in cash from his pocket, and snatched the bag which contained a pair of Jordan sneakers, cops said.
Automatic transmission
A scoundrel smashed the window of a parked car on the corner of Jay and Nassau streets on Sept. 6 and stole a man’s laptop, cops said.
The 41-year-old victim said he parked at 4 pm, and when he returned four hours later the passenger-side window of his car was smashed and the computer had vanished.
— Matthew Perlman
