HAUS CALL
A 55-year-old man was slashed in the neck outside a Tribeca nightclub last week, police say.
The assailant came after his victim outside the Haus nightclub on West Broadway shortly after 3 a.m. on Friday June 24, and afterwards fled west on Canal St., cops say.
The victim was transported to a nearby hospital in stable condition, according to the NYPD.
Khaled Mahmoud, a worker at a halal cart parked outside the club, told WCBS2 that the slasher was following his victim and intended to rob him. “He came close to him, very close to him,” Mahmoud told the channel. “He said, ‘Please go back, what do you want from me?’ And then he slash him.”
Police are now searching for the attacker, who is described as wearing a yellow winter jacket, a white t-shirt with black lettering, dark pants and a large backpack.
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA
Police are looking for a 28-year-old man from Brooklyn after he stole more than $2,000 from an acquaintance and later boasted about the crime on Facebook, cops say.
The victim, who lives in Pennsylvania but runs a business in Brooklyn, left the perp inside his car parked at the corner of Cortlandt St. and Broadway at 11 a.m. on Monday June 20 to “perform a customer work order,” according to a police report.
When he came back, his friend had left — taking with him a briefcase containing $2,050 in cash, police say.
The perp later posted on Facebook: “Lol, Nicca mad I booked him…2 bandz…all da way up. Im not playin. Ima get mines by any means. F— emotions. I got them too. Nicca hungry tho…G’d da f— up,” according to a report.
GRIFT CARDS
An all-too-trusting woman was cheated out of $2,000 while trying to buy a car online with gift cards, police say.
The victim, a 54-year-old from Tribeca, was trying to buy a 2007 Toyota Camry through eBay, but was tricked by a fraudster living in Virginia into sending her the codes to four iTunes gift cards worth $500 each as payment for the vehicle, cops say.
Needless to say, the woman never received her car — and to top it off, the scheming trickster continues to ask her for more gift cards, according to a report.
PRET A VOLER
A burglar who broke into a Tribeca eatery last week was likely left with a sinking feeling in his stomach when he discovered that the cash register he stole was empty.
The hapless perp broke a window at the Pret A Manger at 319 Broadway around 10 p.m. on Friday June 24, and swiped the register, according to police.
He didn’t seem to be too thrilled with his loot, however, since police found the register — valued at $325 — discarded on a Thomas St. sidewalk shortly after the crime was reported, according to a report.
HANDBAG HEIST
Two middle-aged men were picked up by police after trying to steal a $4,000 handbag from a store in Soho, police say.
The sticky-fingered shoplifters, aged 43 and 44, were arrested after trying to lift the bag from a Dior boutique on Greene St. around 4 p.m. on Tuesday June 21, according to police.
They were caught even though they used a so-called booster bag — a container lined with aluminum foil to shield electronic security tags from detection — to pull off the theft, cops say.
TOUGH LESSON
A despicable deviant stole a Citi bike from a boy in Battery Park City last week, cops say.
The kid was riding the bike, which was rented by his dad, in the Pumphouse Park behind Brookfield Place at 8:50 p.m. on Friday June 24, according to police.
When a man walked up to the boy and asked to borrow the $1,200 bike, the child obliged, allowing the perp to pedal away along on Vesey St., according to a report.
The man is described as in his mid-20s, 5-foot-8, wearing a tan sweater and tan hat, police say.
BPC BIKES BILKED
A wave of motorcycle thefts has seen three bikes disappear from Battery Park City and Hudson Square within five days this month, police say.
In the early morning of Sunday June 12, a man left his $7,500 Yamaha parked outside his workplace on Varick St. for 45 minutes shortly after midnight, only to find it had been stolen when he returned, according to police.
Surveillance video shows two men in a white van pull up and swipe the bike, according to a report.
Three days later, on Wednesday June 15, another man left his red-and-gray BMW bike outside his home on North End Ave., but the machine was stolen overnight, together with a set of tires and gloves — worth $23,000 altogether police say.
On Friday June 17, the third bike — a $20,000 blue-and-white BMW — was stolen between 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. from its parking spot on Rector Pl., cops say.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the incidents were being treated as connected.
POCKET MONEY
A construction company is missing $8,000 in cash that was taken from its offices in Tribeca, police say.
The money was stolen from an unlocked drawer that held $11,000 in cash at the Thomas St. offices of construction firm OTL Enterprises sometime between Thursday June 9 and Tuesday June 14, according to a report.
TIMEPIECE TAKEN
A man’s $25,000 watch was swiftly stolen out of a gym locker in Tribeca, cops say.
The victim, a 45-year-old from Westchester, was at the Equinox gym on Murray St. where he secured his Patek Philippe timepiece in a locker and went downstairs to buy a pair of shorts at 4 p.m. on Thursday June 9, according to a report.
He returned only 10 minutes later to find his combination lock gone and the watch missing from his bag, police say.
SERVED UP
Thieves lifted a man’s phone and wallet while he was playing a round of tennis at Nelson A. Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City, according to a report.
The 63-year-old Rector Pl. resident was swinging and smashing it at the park’s tennis courts around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday June 12, say police — then he discovered that his $600 iPhone and $300 in cash had been lifted from his racket case.
— Yannic Rack
