The Bronx
Police are looking for two gun-wielding thugs who held up a 21-year-old man in a Morrisania apartment building. The suspects — one of whom knows the victim — pushed the man into the laundry room of a building on East 163rd Street near Teller Avenue on May 10 at about 8:55 p.m., cops said. The goons pulled out guns and took the victim’s watch and an undetermined amount of cash, police said. The victim was not injured. One of the suspects is 25 years old, 6-feet tall and 170 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black hat and a black jacket, according to cops. The other one is 30 years old, 5-foot-10 and 200 pounds.He was last seen wearing a black do-rag and a gray sweat suit.
A man is wanted for sneaking into a Mott Haven subway concession stand and taking cash and scratch-off lottery tickets, police said. The burglar crawled through an unlocked, interior door and made off with the loot at the 138th Street station on the No. 6 line on April 26, cops said. He swiped $494 from the register and $480 worth of lottery tickets, police said. The suspect has black curly hair and was last seen wearing a gray skull cap, black boots, gray sweater and black jeans.
Manhattan
Three men were stabbed during a brawl with another group of men in Washington Heights early Thursday, police said. The violence broke out on West 169th Street near Amsterdam Avenue at around 12:18 a.m., cops said. The men, aged 24, 22, and 26, took themselves to New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where they were treated for non-life threatening injuries, cops said. They are not cooperating with police, according to authorities.
A teenager was robbed in Central Park after stopping to speak to a group of kids from his school, police said. The 18-year-old was on the Great Lawn at 82nd Street and the East Drive Wednesday at about 6:40 p.m. when he noticed a group of schoolmates, cops said. When he stopped to chat, one of the teens, who was shirtless, grabbed the victim’s backpack and fled. The victim went after the robber, who threatened him with a knife, police said. The mugger got away with the backpack, which contained $20, the victim’s ID and an Apple laptop.
A man was arrested for allegedly drawing swastikas on two elevator doors and two office doors in Midtown last month. Jeffrey Diamond, 57, was busted Wednesday morning and was charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime for the April 29 act, police said. He was captured on surveillance video drawing the swastikas and was apprehended by detectives from the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force, police said.
Brooklyn
A fiend groped a 24-year-old woman and exposed himself to her in Prospect Park, police said. The victim was strolling Wednesday at about 2:40 p.m. when the attacker grabbed her hand and led her into the park, cops said. He then grabbed her buttocks and breasts and pushed her up against a tree before exposing himself, police said. The victim was able to break away from the suspect and she was not injured, cops said. The attacker is still at large. Police described him as 20 years old, 5-foot-8 and 160 pounds with black eyes and short black hair. He was last seen wearing gray jeans, white sneakers and a blue top.
Queens
A man was stabbed and viciously beaten by four men on a Jackson Heights street, police said. The men started following the 24-year-old victim around 8:30 pm on May 19 before approaching him and attacking him with a knife, a tire iron and a cane, cops said. The victim suffered multiple lacerations to his back and head from the stabbing and was hit in the head and body with the tire iron and cane, according to police. The suspects fled eastbound on 32nd Avenue and the victim was taken to Elmhurst General Hospital in critical but stable condition, police said. The four suspects are described as males between the ages of 16 and 24 years old. Cops released surveillance photos of two of the suspects.