BANK JOB
The risk doesn’t always match the reward.
A man robbed a Tribeca bank branch in broad daylight last Friday Apr. 8, threatening a cashier and ditching a dye pack as he made off with a measly $530, cops say.
Around 1:50 p.m. that day, the 50–60-year-old strode into the Santander branch in Hudson St. and walked up to a teller, police say.
The robber, sporting a grey goatee, sunglasses and a white sweatshirt and sweatpants, then placed a black plastic bag on the teller ledge and told the woman behind the glass, “This is a bank robbery. Do what I’m telling you to do, or I will hurt you. I only want 50s and 100s,” according to police.
He fled the bank northbound on Hudson St. with the cash, and police later found a dye pack discarded in front of 112 Hudson St., according to a report.
‘FU’ TO FDNY
A 31-year-old New Jersey man who seemed to have a problem with authority had some strong words for a firefighter on transport duty — before adding injury to insult by allegedly running over the civil servant in a misguided attempt to flee a traffic stop, according to police.
The disrespectful driver was stopped at the corner of Bridge and Broad Sts. in the Financial District shortly after noon on Thursday Apr. 7 because he was driving in the wrong lane, cops say.
When he was asked for ID, he allegedly told the on-duty FDNY officer who stopped him, “F— you, you’re not a cop,” before trying to make a getaway and hitting the officer with his car, police say.
The man was promptly arrested, and the FDNY officer refused medical attention to treat minor injuries to his knee, according to a report.
TARGET PRACTICE
A subway conductor took a detour to the hospital this week, after she was hit in the head by a glass bottle while stopping at the W. Houston St. station en route uptown, police say.
The 58-year-old victim told police she was making a scheduled stop with the 2 train at 4:30 a.m. on Monday Apr. 11.
When she opened the doors at the station and stuck her head out of the conductor’s window, a woman hurled a glass bottle at her, hitting her right in the forehead, cops say.
The attacker fled the station and the victim was taken to Montefiore Hospital with a small cut between her eyebrows, according to police.
CITY HALL CANING
A 51-year-old man allegedly raised his cane against an out-of-towner last week, beating a woman with his walking stick near City Hall Park, cops say.
At 11:20 a.m. on Tuesday Apr. 5, the 36-year-old victim from Sleepy Hollow, along with a witness, flagged down a police officer and recounted how the man had hit the woman in the neck and leg with his stick at the corner of Broadway and Barclay St, according to a report.
They had followed the perp to the corner of Park Pl. and Church St., and the officer arrested the man after they identified him, police say.
A police report noted that other “weapons” were recovered from the man upon his arrest, but did not detail their nature.
— Yannic Rack
