That’s knife
There were two scary muggings at the F-train station at York Street in DUMBO last week, including a knifepoint crime on March 9 and a gunpoint theft on March 12.
In the first crime, a thug held a knife against the throat of a teenager as he left the station’s lone exit at the corner of Jay Street at around 4 pm, taking the 15-year-old’s Sidekick phone.
The victim told cops that he did not get a good look at the bandit.
Three days later, a gunman stalked a 28-year-old woman and followed her after she left the station at around 11 pm.
He pounced when she got to the corner of York and Bridge streets, showing off the firearm and demanding her stuff.
She handed over her bag, which contained $40 and cards.
She got a better look at her mugger, describing him as a 20-year-old man, about 5-foot-6 and 180-pounds, wearing a black snorkel jacket.
Water world
A prowler busted into an office tower at 20 Jay St. in DUMBO and broke a water pipe that flooded three elevators, cops said.
The hoodlum entered through a skylight at around 2 am on March 10 and caused about $30,000 in damage to the building, which is between Plymouth and John streets.
Unholy crime
A thief swiped the wallet of an employee of St. Francis College on Remsen Street on March 4 when the worker went to the store for a 2 pm break.
Upon her return, the 26-year-old woman discovered that her wallet was gone from the secured locker in which she had place it. A half hour later, the wallet mysteriously reappeared, but it was devoid of $5 and various cards.
Two weeks later, a similar crime occurred at the F. Martinella Deli on Court Street between State Street and Atlantic Avenue, when a worker said that her locker had been busted into and her wallet taken.
She said the stuff — which included $140 and various cards — was secure at 10 am, but gone when she returned after her 10-hour shift.
Smokin’ hot
A case of cigarettes was swiped from the Walgreens drugstore on Atlantic Avenue on March 12, cops said.
The manager of the chain store, at Third Avenue, told cops that he had just received a shipment of smokes and was putting them away at around 10 am when he noticed one of the cases was missing.
When he went to the videotape, he spotted a man taking the box and fleeing westbound on Atlantic Avenue.
The cash value of the cigs is close to $2,500.
Bad wheels
A thief took a nearly decade-old Saturn from a parking spot at the corner of Hicks and Cranberry streets on Feb. 21, its owner told cops.
The 37-year-old driver told cops that the car disappeared between 7:30 am and 5 pm, when he knocked off for the day. He did not report the crime until March 10.
No substitute
A man was quite annoyed, as we say, to return to a Cadman Plaza West parking garage to discover that his $46,000 Porsche — and thousands in golf equipment — were gone.
The 38-year-old Clark Street resident told police that he dropped off the 2006 sports car on Feb. 13 and returned to claim it on March 8.
At that time, the garage worker told him that the car wasn’t at the location, which is between Clark and Middagh streets. In fact, in its place was the opposite car: a 2009 Honda Fit.
On March 15, a Mercedes Benz owner complained of the same thing at a garage just up the block.
In that case, as well, drivers leave their keys in the ignition.
Gym rats
It’s a Police Blotter staple — the workout wallet swipe — but this one has a twist: the victim did not lock his valuables while sweating in the gym.
The 55-year-old exercise buff told police that he entered the YMCA on Atlantic Avenue between Court Street and Boerum Place at around 3 pm on Feb. 17 and stripped down.
He put all his clothes in a locker and exerted himself for an impressive three and a half hours. Upon return, however, he discovered that hie wallet, which contained $40 and credit cards, was gone.
He reported the crime a month later because he wanted to wait to see if the credit cards had been used, he told cops. The Mastercard had — to the tune of $2,000.
In an incident related only by the sweat involved, another workout fiend finished a regimen on March 11 to discover that her belongings had been swiped from a secured locker at a gym at the corner of Joralemon and Court streets.
She told cops that she was exercising from 10:45 pm until 11:45 pm, when she returned to the locker room to find her bag missing. And that bag was loaded with credit cards, a Blackberry phone, a gift card and a wallet.
Before she could cancel the cards, they had already been used, she told cops.
ByePhone
A pickpocket swiped a woman’s iPhone from her pocket on Joralemon Street on March 13.
The woman told cops that she was between Court and Clinton streets at around 3:30 pm when the thief bumped into her and made the pick.
He was gone by the time she realized what had happened.
Safe crack
A masked gunman busted into a Bond Street Dunkin Donuts on March 14 and demanded that workers open a safe filled with tasty cash.
Employees told cops that the thief walked in through the front door, between Livingston and Fulton streets, at around 8 am and showed off his hardware.
“Where’s the safe? Where’s the safe?” he screamed.
Workers opened the lock box and handed over $2,400, plus payroll checks, before the thug ordered them to lie on the floor.
— Gersh Kuntzman
