NISMO

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:17:27 -0500

I go in and out of this building daily. There's no way those two guys entered the building in street clothes and then changed into FedEx uniforms. If you're in street clothes and try to get in through the front or the side entrance, security will not let you in. There's only two ways those guys entered that building: either the security didn't check them at the front while they had the FedEx uniforms on or they snuck in at the side entrace when the security guard there was distracted. In the lobby, there's a metal detector there where visitors have to walk through and if you're carrying a bag whether you're a tenant there or just a vistor, you have to run it through the x-ray machine. I've seen them let FedEx, UPS, and DHL guys walk through the front without scanning them at all, however, there's two types of bags that FedEx and UPS carries: a clear pastics bag for light boxes or if they're doing a major pick-up/delivery, they have a handtruck and a large white woven bag filled with boxes. If you see two guys working for a major delivery company with a duffel bag, shouldn't that ring a bell? Granted that DHL uses shoulder carrying bags, but the bags are so small that the delivery guy has the bag over-flowed with packages. At the side entrance at 1 West, people can go in, but only tenants with keycards. They have to walk through a turnstile and there's a guard that opens a gate to let people out of the building and never in. There's two double doors that you have to go through before tenants flash their keyguard, but in between those two double doors there's an exit leading from the second floor; you can only open while you're leaving from 2nd floor. If they caught the guard not looking, they could've easily snuck in through the exit just when someone was coming out or when the guard wasn't looking, they just passed him if he was chatting with someone. As for the FedEx "t-shirts", well, they're polo t-shirts. Nothing more. There's a package delivery company in there called "Malca-Amit" in that building. The delivery guys wear is just a t-shirt with the logo and jeans. Some, however, carry guns because these guys are/were cops. The security guards there shouldn't be even called security guards. They just work in the lobby and that's it. Not only do they not have a gun, they have no handcuffs, and no protection at all. They're even trained to "look for clues". Speaking of Malca-Amit, the front today, just let a guy through without even checking him. I like it how the media gets things wrong and just airs it no matter what. ABC news called the building 280 while showing the side entrance and the reporters said that the secretary let them into the building.

Rocknrope

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:29:58 -0500

I'd like to see them dress up like Hasids, a la the movie Snatch. Now that would be a heist.

Dave H.

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:42:38 -0500

That's not the first time this has happened. Last year, two guys pulled the same Fed-Ex uniform scam in the diamond district and made off with a similarly huge grab.

Gothamist: Diamonds are a Robbers' Best Haul

NISMO

Rocknrope

Dave H.