An assailant broke a pedestrian’s jaw in multiple places on Feb. 24, after a woman started a conversation with another man.
The 30-year-old Bedford Avenue resident had been walking on North Eighth Street toward Bedford Avenue at 2:50 am when an unknown lady began chatting with him. How that precipitated a fight remains unclear, but one thing is for sure: a guy who looked about 24 punched the victim him a number of times, breaking his jaw in multiple places.
The jaw was wired shut at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan.
Monitors stolen
With an apparent eye for irony, a thief stole 10 computer monitors from a delivery van parked on none other than Monitor Street on Feb. 26.
The deliveryman, 22, parked the GM van at the corner of Richardson Street at 12:15 pm, leaving the van’s back door unlocked. When he returned 10 minutes later, the back of the van was open and 10 computer monitors were gone.
Whoever stole the $239 screens left a footprint inside the van. Cops are doing the Cinderella trick to try to find their suspect.
Wallet swiped
A worker at a fancy, Meeker Avenue boutique hotel got her wallet swiped Feb. 29.
The 27-year-old Greenpoint Avenue resident had left her purse on the front desk of the new hotel, between Jackson and Wither streets, only to discover at 11:15 pm that her wallet was gone.
When the victim called her bank, she found out that the thief had used her Washington Mutual card just 45 earlier, buying $80 worth of fares at a Metrocard vending machine.
The wallet-snatcher needn’t have gone to the effort. Inside the wallet, the victim had been carrying an monthly Metrocard, plus $25.
Vintage steal
A car thief stole a 1966 Chevy Impala on March 2, after the car broke down and its owner parked it on a side street.
The car’s owner, a 45-year-old Grand Street resident, told cops he left the two-door, black sedan on North 14th Street, between Nassau and Wythe avenues, at 9 am after its fuel pump broke.
When he returned to check on the muscle car at 5:30 pm, it was gone. He estimated its worth at $10,000.
