Dyker Heights Apartment Burglarized As Fire Escape Break-Ins Continue To Plague 6-8

By on March 28, 2013  News
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Image source: kthread via Flickr.

Image source: kthread via Flickr.

Jewelry and electronics continue to disappear from area homes, as a series of break-ins plague the 68th Precinct, which covers both Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge.

Please remember folks, if you have a fire escape then you probably want to lock the window(s) closest to it when you go out!

According to Brooklyn Paper’s Will Bredderman, a burglar [or group of burglars] exploited one unlocked fire escape window – taking the opportunity to enter a 14th Avenue apartment on March 19.

The victim claims to have left her flat, which sits between 68th Street and 69th Street, at 8:30 a.m.

When she returned at 2:50 p.m. her door was still locked – but two Nintendo game consoles, a Playstation, an iPad, a MacBook, two gold necklaces, and an engraved silver wedding band were all gone.

Bay Ridge Jewelry Burglaries Moving South

By on March 7, 2013  News
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As the jewelry burglary [jurglary?] trend in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights continues, it’s apparently moving south.

When Bay Ridge Odyssey first began writing about the break-ins in January, the crimes were centered around 70th Street, as February passed the halfway mark, they had moved to the mid 70s.

Now, as reported in this week’s Brooklyn Paper by Will Bredderman, two incidents – including one attempted burglary and a successful one – occurred in the final days of February at locations in the high 70s and 80s.

While we haven’t verified that this shows the entire picture [all data was pulled second-hand from police blotters], it certainly makes for an interesting snapshot.

Here’s the timeline: Continue reading »

Jewelry, Electronics Burglaries Continue In Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights

By on February 21, 2013  Featured story, News
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Grotesque inset of a burglar on facade of the Williamsburgh Savings Tower at 1 Hanson Place in Fort Greene (Image source: Wikipedia Commons).

It looks like burglars are still finding plenty of homes to score jewelry, cash and electronics from in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights.

While none of the incidents reported by Will Bredderman in yesterday’s Brooklyn Paper police blotter occurred on 70th Street, they all happened within blocks of previously pilfered apartments:

  • The occupant of a ground floor apartment on 73rd Street between 13th Avenue and 14th Avenue left at around 2 p.m. on February 11. She returned at 5:15 p.m. to find her glass sliding door shattered and a host of expensive items – including three gold rings, one onyx ring, a diamond bracelet, a diamond necklace, an elk ivory watch, a pair of elk ivory cufflinks, $5,000 in bills, and a Nikon camera gone.

 

  • The next day another victim, who had left her 76th Street flat at around 5:30 p.m., had trouble gaining entry after returning four hours later. Realizing the entrance was blocked with the door to an adjacent closet, she pushed her way into the apartment – which is located between 3rd Avenue and 4th Avenue. Seeing the place had been ransacked, she also noticed the shade on her fire escape window drawn open. Stolen items reported to police included two iPads, a checkbook, a gold chain, two gold necklaces, two gold watches, two gold bracelets, a silver necklace, a pair of gold earrings, and two gold pendants.

 

  • During that same day, a resident of Ridge Blvd between 75th Street and 76th Street was burglarized by some apparently numismatic crooks. He left for the day at 7 a.m. and came back at 11:30 p.m. to discover his MacBook, tablet computer, Canon camera, watch, and $400 in Chinese currency missing.

Thousands In Jewelry, Electronics Stolen From 13th Ave Apartment

By on February 6, 2013  Featured story, News
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Image source: kthread via Flickr.

On the 28th of January, | My neighbor was victim-ized by, | Scumbag thieves a-leaping, | Up fire escapes and piping, | Land lady’s sleeping, | Nine bass drums thumping, | Eight cleaning ladies cleaning, | Between 70th and, | 69th Street a crook made off with, | Two gold rings, | One lap top, | Three French hens, | Two turtle doves, and | A diamond engagement ring.

In details that resemble lyrics from the Twelve Days of Christmas, Brooklyn Paper’s Will Bredderman is reporting that a sticky-fingered slime bag stole thousands in jewelry and electronics from a 13th Avenue apartment on January 28.

The victim told police that he left his home, on 13th Avenue between 69th street and 70th street, at 9:30 am. After returning at 1:30 pm, he noticed the missing laptop and jewelery.

While neighbors said they heard nothing out of the ordinary, police found footprints leading to a fire escape in the building’s rear yard.

As the ad-libbed song lyrics indicate, stolen items include a wedding band, two gold rings, a diamond ring, a gold chain, gold bangles, and a laptop. [The French hens and turtle doves went mercifully unmolested].

The vicinity of 70th Street has seen a rash of break-ins via fire escape since the year began.

Two More Reasons To Lock Your Window

By on January 10, 2013  News
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Image source: kthread via Flickr.

2013 has already proven to be an unlucky year for residents leaving their windows unlocked, as reported by Will Bredderman in the Brooklyn Paper’s police blotter.

The first break in, on January 1, occurred while the occupant was on a ski trip:

The victim said she put her friend in charge of her home at 70th Street, and left at 6 pm to go skiing. When the friend stopped by at 11 am the next day, the rear bedroom window was open.

When the victim came back on Jan. 4, she discovered that thousands of dollars in jewelry were missing from her home, along with her PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii.

During the second incident, which happened nearby just one day later, the thief actually managed to lock the victim out of her apartment.

The resident told cops that she left her home between 70th and 71st streets at 9 a.m. neglecting to lock her bedroom window, which opens out onto a fire escape. While she was gone, the thief made off with her iPhone 3 and 4, earrings, two watches, and her wedding ring – engaging the victim’s chain lock from inside as a final insult.

[UPDATED] Grimm S.I. Campaign Headquarters Vandalized

By on September 24, 2012  Politics
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Image source: Grimm campaign via Politicker.

The Staten Island campaign headquarters of Rep. Michael Grimm was allegedly vandalized and burglarized sometime on Saturday night, as reported by Politicker’s Hunter Walker. Continue reading »

Alotta Bread: Burglar makes off with $22,800 haul from (not so) secret oven cash stash

By on September 21, 2012  News
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Not the oven in question (Image source: BoneDaddy.p7 via Flickr).

The world’s most intuitive thief – or more likely one with intimate knowledge of a secret cache of cash and jewelery – walked away from a Dyker Heights apartment with $22,800 worth of greenbacks and goods on September 12.

From Brooklyn Paper:

The victim said he left his home [on 14th Avenue] between 64th and 65th streets at 10:55 am, and came home to see that somebody had forced his door open and moved his kitchen stove into the middle of the room — and taken the cache of treasures hidden behind the appliance.

The final insult? Included in the burglar’s almost $23,000 haul was the victim’s $400 security camera.