BEATING AT THE BATTERY
Two men beat and robbed a man after pulling him out of his car near The Battery earlier this month, authorities said.
The man was sitting in his parked Chevrolet Silverado near the Staten Island Ferry at South and Whitehall Sts. around 3 p.m. on Tuesday Apr. 12, when one of the attackers yanked him out of the car’s passenger seat and punched him repeatedly, according to a criminal complaint from the District Attorney’s office.
The other assailant then screamed at the man, patted him down and stole his money, according to the complaint.
Before they walked away, the first man also took the victim’s phone and smashed it on the ground, the DA says.
The assault was caught on camera and the two men, both in their thirties, have been charged with 2nd-degree robbery and criminal possession of stolen property.
CYCLING SNATCH
He saw his chance and jumped on it.
A man grabbed a Citibike from an unsuspecting Staten Islander in the Financial District last weekend, riding off into the night on the stolen two-wheeled steed, police say.
The 23-year-old victim told cops that the man — wearing a dark-colored hoodie — grabbed her bike outside of 50 Fulton St. at 8:20 p.m. on Sunday Apr. 24 and fled westbound towards the World Trade Center, according to a report.
The $1,300 bike had been checked out at Spruce and Nassau Sts., police say.
ONCE UPON A THIEF
A woman starting her shift at the Once Upon a Tart café on Sullivan St. fell victim to an uninvited customer last week, when another woman let herself in before store hours and stole the worker’s wallet, cops say.
On Monday Apr. 18, the employee was carrying supplies into the basement around 10:50 a.m. when she noticed a woman standing around in the store — which was still closed but the door was unlocked, according to a report.
The woman left when the worker questioned her, but the employee later noticed that her wallet had disappeared — complete with $500 in cash, a $200 gift card to Crate & Barrel and a debit card, police say.
PICKPOCKETS ON A TRAIN
Police busted two cellphone thieves last week after they allegedly tried to rob a woman on a Brooklyn-bound 4 train at the Bowling Green stop, cops say.
The victim, a 47-year-old woman from Staten Island, said she was engaged in conversation by two teens as she boarded the train around 1:20 p.m. on Tuesday Apr. 19 — but noticed in a window reflection that a third teen was trying to steal her phone from her bag, according to a report.
When she confronted the trio, one of them fled and the other two blamed their partner, with one of them telling her, “The other guy took your phone,” police say.
After getting off at the Borough Hall stop in Brooklyn, the woman alerted a police officer who arrested the two remaining juveniles, aged 15 and 16, who were also from Staten Island, according to police.
