Book them
Thugs attacked and robbed a teenager as he walked down 72nd Street at 2:30 am on Aug. 22.
The 17-year-old victim said he was walking home when he noticed a beige car driving slowly down the street behind him.
At the corner of Seventh Avenue, three men got out of the car and surrounded him, hitting him in the head with a glass bottle before grabbing his book bag and jumping back into the vehicle, making off with a cell phone and charger, as well as a brand new red back pack.
Burg bash
At least three neighborhood homes were burgled last week.
•Someone took cash and jewelry from a home on 77th Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues on Aug. 20 and grabbed $150 cash and two pearl necklaces.
•On Aug. 22, someone broke into a home on 72nd Street between 11th and 12th avenues. The victim, 79, left her house at around 10 am. When she returned 24 hours later, she found a rear window shattered and more than $38,000 worth of yellow metal jewelry gone from inside.
•Someone entered an apartment on 80th Street between Ninth and Tenth avenues on Aug. 23 and made off with more than $2,000 in jewelry and electronics.
Knife & bikes
A 33-year-old man was robbed at knifepoint as he walked down 63rd Street on Aug. 24 at around 1:30 am.
The victim was at the corner of Ninth Avenue when three men wearing red shirts and black bandanas approached him, cops said. As one of the thugs pointed a knife at the victim, another grabbed the man’s $250 cellphone out of his hand. The suspects then fled up the street on their bicycles.
— Emily Lavin
