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A Sutton Place apartment building discovered that a favorite doorman was robbing tenants' apartments during the day. Residents of 434 East 52nd Street were shocked to learn that one of their favorite doormen, Edgardo Rodriguez, was behind a number of building robberies. He was found out when one tenant had installed video cameras in his apartment and saw Rodriquez "rifling through his belongings and trying to disable the one surveillance camera." Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau said, "He didn't realize there were two video cameras." Snap. But Gothamist was more fascinated with how some jewelry he had pawned was being offered to a jeweler who had purchased them for one of the buildings' tenants! It turns out the Rodriguez had been convicted with attempted robbery 10 years ago, which makes Gothamist wonder if the building check his records. It's like anything - checking a tenant, checking a nanny...even checking an employer, for chrissakes!
Another question: Is Sutton Place the Upper East Side? The Newsday article described the address as the UES, but we've always thought of it more as "Farther Midtown East" or "Northern Turtle Bay."
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Seems to me that you have to at least get into the 60s before you can start saying "Upper East Side" (or "Upper West Side", for that matter).
Note that _West Side Story_, which is set in the mid-sixties, is not called _Upper West Side Story_.
I live on E47th and 2nd and I know all about the areas identity crisis. I usually tell people I live in East midtown, but I have also heard people refer to it as turtle bay. UES doesn't start until at least 60.
This reminds of a safety seminar I attended at the Cornell Club several years ago. Conducted by the first woman detective in the NYPD, it made the point that many doormen are retirees, earning a modest wage, who observe tenants' comings and goings every day. She asserted that most apartment thefts are "inside jobs" and that upper floor apartments are most at risk. She urged tenants to not leave copies of keys with the building or allow routine access.
and the culprit is . . . "Old Man Smithers!"
"And would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for that pesky video camera"
Persons are robbed. Premises are burgled. Or burglarized, if you prefer. But not robbed.
DF