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The police believe the same man who has robbed four female subway commuters last week stole the purse of another woman yesterday morning.
A 24-year-old woman had been waiting on the Rector Street subway platform when, according to WABC 7, "the suspect grabbed her purse just before 10 a.m." She was knocked down and the suspect ran into the subway tracks, threw the purse on the ground after taking the cash, and ran into the tunnel.
The other subway purse robberies have all occurred in the morning at downtown Manhattan subway platforms: The L on 14th Street and First Avenue, the 1 at Christopher Street, the L and 14th and Third, and the 6 at Bleecker and Lafayette. The NYPD and MTA are currently in a power struggle over who can cut the power to the tracks--naturally, the cops would like the power off ASAP so they can investigate immediately, but the MTA requires "senior level" approval for such a request, to avoid stranding passengers in train cars.
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This guy likes to steal on the edge, eh?
Must be a slow news week if we're focusing on petty purse snatching. New York IS getting safer.
Where's Stallone in a dress when you need him?
Rector!? He nearly killed her!!!
hardy haw haw.
i can't beleive that on a crowded platform no bystanders has been able to tackle or trip this guy up? he's there long enough to empty the purse of cash. i guess no one has been adequately caffeinated at that hour.
i wonder how much cash he collects from the average purse. he would be disappointed if he got hold of my purse since i never seem to have more than 10 bux on me.
common lord darwin, we need you for this one!!!
lanciano, cheapskates like you are to blame.
If women started carrying more cash, this guy wouldn't be forced to snatch purses so often.
I can't believe that he's still around... you'd think that the hobos would've gotten to him in the tunnels.
Seriously though, does no one ever come to any one's aid anymore? I remember hearing about the same thing happening at 74th Roosevelt a few months ago, and no one batted an eye... and you know how crowded Roosevelt Ave. can be. C'mon!
i hope the next woman he does that to remembers that fingers in the eyes are amazingly effective, even more so (and often easier) than the clichéd kick to the groin.
i hope the guy ends up having to deal with a broad who knows her self-defense...it's pretty damn weak to target women.
Yeah but at 10AM... she'd have to be awake enough/get over the shock of being pursesnatched to stick her fingers in his eyes.
See, this is why women shouldn't tote purses... it's like wearing a big sign "steal me, I've got everything I own inside!" around town.
Didn't 20/20 or one of those other stupid shows do something like this recently? I only saw the commercial.. it was like people getting their shit stolen, or otherwise needing assistance (fake), and they had hidden cameras recording how no one did anything.
the deal is that one should not wait for a train at the end of the platform, near the tunnel. He is going to strike where he can make a quick escape, and he does not want to run the length of a platform to get to the tunnel.
Why stop the train? If he runs in the tunnels, he's taking his chances. Let him get run over.
I once saw a teenage girl fall in the tracks and get run over on a weekday morning. Pretty gory way to die.
I never stand on the edge of the platform after that.
It was just reported that thief has been apprehended by the police. They picked him up from a homeless shelter.
I never stand on the edge of the platform after that.
What a pity.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6157150
yeah sob got caught. i was hopping he gets run over by the train.
local abc news interviewed a couple of women in the subways. interesting to say the least, like a slice of the internet in real life.
One was sympathetic to the snatcher and another was glib and smug stating we all should watch out now that the economy is turning.
Now he's not homeless and going to get 3 squares, sure he's gonna miss NYC in the summer but thems the breaks.
thankfully Pb is still cheap in America.
I was in Greenpoint Station when the attack took place Monday. He probably ran right past me. I heard a woman screaming down on the platform. But I couldn't tell what was going on until they got up to the mezzanine and were screaming for police.