It was like something out of Grand Theft Auto.
VideoGamesNewYork, the East Village video-game store with the giant Super Mario in the window, was robbed at gunpoint late Monday night.
Two men thought to be in their early twenties entered the store around 11 p.m., pistol-whipped the clerk, and snagged an undetermined amount of cash from the register, the police say. The clerk was treated at Bellevue Hospital.
Check out surveillance footage of the heist, above.
A man was shot during an attempted robbery Monday afternoon in Bushwick, according to the police.
The 29-year-old victim was shot in the torso shortly before 5 p.m. at 1069 Halsey Street, on a residential block between Evergreen and Bushwick Avenues. The suspect, described as a black man in his 20s, wasn’t immediately apprehended, the police said.
The victim was rushed to Kings County Hospital with injuries that weren’t thought to be life-threatening.Â
The video above shows a man just after he mugged a woman at knifepoint in the East Village, police say.
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Despite a noticeable police presence around Tompkins Square Park and a viral video of Santas brawling near Union Square, SantaCon posed few problems in the Ninth Precinct, police brass said last night.
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Pro tip: if you’re walking home from the bar and a white, four-door sedan offers you a ride, do not get in. The driver may be brandishing a gun.
A group of three young women and one man may be targeting young women walking alone late at night, a police spokesperson source said.
On June 30, around 4am near 61 East Third Street, an approximately 20-year-old woman tapped a 26-year-old woman on the shoulder and demanded her wallet, according to a police report. The alleged robber, who wore a green baseball cap and tank top, told the victim there was a man with a gun in a car across the street and the victim promptly handed over her credit cards and cell phone (the robber was nice enough to let her keep her ID)
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If you’re in the habit of walking home alone while checking your Facebook feed with just one eye open, it might be time to wise up: police in Williamsburg and Greenpoint are on the lookout for a man who has robbed five area residents in the last two weeks as they returned from bars in the evening.
“He’s only been striking between 10:30 p.m. and 1 a.m.,” said Stefan Komar, captain of the 94th Precinct. “I don’t know why, but he has a schedule.”
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