New burg city
The Slope was a burglar’s playground last week, as at least four houses were hit. Here’s a roundup:
• A thief broke into a basement apartment on Carroll Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues that had been occupied by an old lady who recently died. The woman’s son, 47, told cops that the thief broke into his mother’s former abode sometime overnight on March 10, then went upstairs to help himself to a jewelry box containing about $700 in baubles.
• Sometime between March 11 and 13, a thief entered — though apparently without force — a Fourth Avenue apartment and stole a laptop, a digital camera and $40. That unit is between Warren and Baltic streets.
• In the early hours of March 12, a woman’s son broke into her home on 11th Street between Third and Fourth avenues, stole her credit card, and left — but he was later arrested.
• A Union Street homeowner waited more than three months to report that his $6,000 gold ring had been stolen, police said.
The woman summoned cops on March 3 to report that the ring disappeared sometime between Oct. 16 and Nov. 21 from the home between Seventh and Eighth avenues.
She gave cops a vivid description of two suspects, including their addresses and names, but claimed the two were strangers to her. Further investigation suggested that the perps had worked for a cleaning service that had once been inside the woman’s apartment.
Easy seat
Only one car was reported broken into last week — which is something of a minor miracle in the Slope.
Cops say that sometime between March 7 and 12, a thief tore though the soft top of a convertible Honda S-20 that had been parked on 10th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues, and took the car’s bucket seats and its steering wheel — a total heist of nearly $10,000.
That’s a fancy car.
— Gersh Kuntzman
