There were some crimes along the Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill/Boerum Hill borders this week, which are recapped at Brooklyn Heights Blog. Included are a bank robbery and two subway thefts.
In other news, a man robbed the Sovereign Bank on Atlantic Avenue at Court Street on April 24, making off with $18,000. The incident happened just before 11 am when the man walked into the bank, skipped the line, passed the teller a note demanding the cash and threatening to shoot her. Cops said the man did not display a gun or otherwise injure anyone, but the teller handed over $18,000 without asking questions, and not in a dye-pack bag. Cops are searching for the 5’8” Hispanic man, who weighs 160 pounds and is around age 20.
There were a series of subway muggings this week. First up, on April 21, a woman was walking up the stairs at the Hoyt Street 2/3-train station just before 11 pm, when a man ran up from behind her, grabbed her purse, and raced out of the stairwell. He made off with $150, her cellphone, and wallet.
Then, on April 23, a perp grabbed a woman’s iPhone on the northbound F-train, just as it was leaving the Bergen Street station. The woman told cops she was playing with the phone at 7:50 pm, when suddenly the man grabbed it and darted out of the train. She and a fellow straphanger chased after him, but the perp whipped out a box cutter, threatened them, and ran off. Cops caught up with him, grabbed the 16-year-old punk, and recovered the woman’s phone.
Can you include fire reports in your updates? I’ve been seeing/hearing a lot of fire engines in Cobble Hill, but then never read of anything or where they were going.
They do sometimes, but only when its significant (like the montague st fires). But I too would like to read about local fire related shenanigans in cobble/heights when the blotter goes out.