COLLISION:
HIT AND RERUN
(26th Precinct)
The driver of a black two-door sedan struck a 25-year-old woman who was crossing midblock on West 125th Street between Amsterdam and Morningside Avenues, police said. The vehicle knocked the victim further into the street, struck her again, running over her legs, and fled westbound on West 125th Street. Police said the victim suffered a concussion, scrapes to her head, and pain in her legs, ankle, and side and was transported to St. Luke’s Hospital, where she was treated and released.
Police released videos of the suspect, whom they don’t otherwise describe, as well as of the vehicle.
ASSAULT:
SUBWAY SLICING
(Midtown South Precinct)
Police arrested Bronx resident Michael McKenzie and charged the 44-year-old with assault after an incident on September 22 at around 10:15 a.m. on a northbound D train. Police said the suspect and the 38-year-old male victim got into a fight in which McKenzie cut the other man with a sharp object before fleeing the train at the 42nd Street station. The victim suffered cuts to his face, chest, stomach, and hands and was later taken to a nearby hospital.
ROBBERY:
BOOSTING MOBILES
(24th Precinct)
Police arrested 43-year-old Robert Spencer and hit him with several charges, including robbery, grand larceny, and criminal possession of a disguised gun, after he was suspected of an armed robbery at a Boost Mobile store at 1003 Columbus Avenue between West 109th and 110th Streets. Police said that on September 19 at around 11 p.m., they responded to a call about a gunpoint robbery at the mobile phone store, from which witnesses saw two males flee — one on foot in an unknown direction and Spencer in a white U-Haul van without its headlights on. When police attempted to pull Spencer over, the suspect parked, but then began fleeing on foot. Officers were able to apprehend Spencer at the corner of West 110th Street and Broadway, police said. According to the NYPD, the vehicle was reported stolen within the 49th Precinct’s jurisdiction and the firearm used in the armed robbery was a black Walther BB gun.
ROBBERY:
BRASS KNUCKLE BEATDOWN
(Midtown North Precinct)
Two suspects, one with brass knuckles, punched and kicked a straphanger and stole $350 in cash on September 5 at around 5 a.m. at the 59th Street-Columbus Circle station, police said. The victim suffered bruising and cuts on his face and lost the cash and other property, police said.
Police released video and video stills of the suspects, whom they describe as a Hispanic male in his 30s, 5’8” to 5’10”, and last seen wearing a gray hooded sweater and light colored pants, and a black male in his 30s, 5’8” to 5’10”, and last seen wearing a gray T-shirt, a black long-sleeved undershirt, and black pants.
ASSAULT:
SOUTHBOUND SHOEDOWN
(Midtown South Precinct)
Police said a woman hit a 75-year-old male subway rider on his head with her shoe on August 19 at around 11:45 a.m. According to police, the two got into a verbal dispute on the southbound 2 train. When the train arrived at the Times Square–42nd Street station, the suspect hit the man with her shoe before fleeing the station. The victim was treated at Lenox Hill Hospital, police said.
Police released photos of the suspect, whom they describe as a black female, around 25 years old, 5’7”, 120 pounds, with brown eyes, long black hair, a medium complexion, and last seen wearing a white dress.
ROBBERY:
BOOM AND BUST
(19th Precinct)
A bank robber threatened a Chase bank teller with a bomb on September 3 at around 5:15 p.m., police said. According to police, the suspect entered the Chase Bank at 201 East 79th Street and passed a note to the teller demanding money and stating he had a bomb. The teller complied and gave the suspect an undetermined amount of money, police said, before the man fled in an unknown direction.
Police released photos of the suspect (available at manhattanexpressnews.nyc), whom they describe as a white male in his 30s, 6’, with a beard, and last seen wearing a white baseball cap and a dark colored hooded sweater.
LOCAL POLICE CONTACTS
Midtown North Precinct
306 West 54th Street
212-767-8400
Midtown South Precinct
357 West 35th Street
212-239-9811
17th Precinct
167 East 51st Street
212-826-3211
19th Precinct
153 East 67th Street
212-452-0600
20th Precinct
120 West 82nd Street
212-580-6411
23rd Precinct
162 East 102nd Street
212-860-6411
24th Precinct
151 West 100th Street
212-678-1811
26th Precinct
520 West 126th Street
212-678-1311
Central Park Precinct
86th Street and Transverse Road
212-570-4820
