GRAND LARCENY: The costs of carelessness | A 30-year-old man lost a bag’s worth of personal possessions at the Winston Wachter Fine Art Gallery (530 W. 25th St. btw. 10th & 11th Aves.) on Thurs., Sept 10. He left the bag unsupervised sometime before 8 p.m. in a communal storage area near the doorway while he hung out with his friends. An unknown person, meanwhile, left the premises with the property, according to a police report. A dental retainer, external hard drive, prescription medicine, and keys to a Honda Civic were among the things that the upstate resident lost.
ASSAULT: Man messes with janitor | One man took offense on Sept. 11 to getting hit with a mop inside a restroom at Chelsea Piers (11th Ave. & W. 21st St.). In response, he grabbed a toilet plunger at about 9 a.m. and began hitting the 63-year-old man who was cleaning the place. The 46-year-old perpetrator then began punching the other man with the left side of the victim’s face receiving the worst of the attack, according to a police report. The victim was transported to Lenox Hill HealthPlex. A 38-year-old woman reported the incident to police on behalf of the older man, who only speaks a dialect of Chinese and lives in the Lower East Side. Police arrested the perpetrator and charged him with felony assault.
PETIT LARCENY: Police deny they did it | Police said they are innocent of an allegation that they took a man’s iPhone. The victim, a 20-year-old Queens resident, lent the cell phone to his friend earlier in the month and never saw it again. His friend told him that he got arrested near the southeast corner of Eighth Ave. and W. 28th St. on Thurs., Sept. 3. Cops confiscated the phone, the friend said. The police, for their part, later told the iPhone owner that they did arrest his friend at about 1 a.m. that morning but do not have the phone. The friend was served a summons for an unstated offense and released with no property vouchered, according to a police report. The whereabouts of the iPhone, valued at $100, remain unknown.
HARASSMENT: Tenant says landlord wants her unhinged | A threatening message from a landlord supposedly came via loosened door hinges on Sat., Sept. 12. A tenant of a building on the 500 block of W. 28th St. told police that someone loosened her front door hinges at 2 p.m. She thinks the supervisor did it, according to a police report. It is all part of an ongoing rift between the two sides, she said. Documentation of the incident would be helpful in housing court, she added. Police did not suspect any criminality, according to the report.
INVESTIGATION: Police have questions for BK man | Correlation is not causation, but police have questions about how a Brooklyn man spent time with two women who later turned up dead. The Manhattan Broadway Hotel at 273 W. 38th St. (btw. Seventh & Eighth Aves.) was where police found a 43-year-old woman dead at about 4:15 p.m. on Tues., Sept. 8. Another woman associated with the 36-year-old person of interest was discovered dead on July 23 in Brooklyn. The NYC Chief Medical Examiner is currently examining the manner of each death, according to a police statement.
—ZACH WILLAIMS
THE 10th PRECINCT: Located at 230 W. 20th St. (btw. Seventh & Eighth Aves.). Commander: Deputy Inspector Michele Irizarry. Main number: 212-741-8211. Community Affairs: 212-741-8226. Crime Prevention: 212-741-8226. Domestic Violence: 212-741-8216. Youth Officer: 212-741-8211. Auxiliary Coordinator: 212-741-8210. Detective Squad: 212-741-8245. The Community Council meets on the last Wed. of the month, 7 p.m., at the 10th Precinct or other locations to be announced. The council is on summer break, to resume on Sept. 30.
