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Late last night a woman was attacked and robbed in the northwest corner of Central Park. The 31-year-old woman was approached by a man while she was walking at 108th Street near Central Park West. He punched her, demanded personal property and attempted to rip off her clothes. When he was unable to disrobe her, the man fled. There is no word yet on exactly what he stole and the suspect remains at large. The Road Runners Club of America has extensive advice on measures pedestrians can take to stay safe, including ones specific for the approaching winter.
Woman Assaulted in Central Park
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Is this what transplants and hipsters mean when they say that they can't wait for the city to be gritty again like it was in the 1980's?
go back to chicago matty.
I think I raise a valid point. ;D
The report doesn't say time of the attack.
Those recommendations in that running site are basic common sense, but then again a lot of people seem to be lacking on that...
Assuming it was reported LATE LAST NIGHT (as in the first sentence), one might assume that it took place in the evening. Runner or walker, don't travel in Central Park alone ladies, its not safe.
Duh...
a general rule of thumb is not to go anywhere into the triple digits of manhattan. even the upper 90's are kinda dangerous.
Hmmm... late last night does not constitute an specific TIME, as in 9:30PM...
Also, who the fuck walks by a park late at night? Let alone by oneself. Isn't it common knowledge that shady stuff goes on at parks during the night?
Central park mugging, late at night, near Harlem.
In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet.
Too bad she didn't have a gun and shoot off his balls.
It's not safe to walk in central park late a night whether you're a man or a woman, Rfive. Men are just as vulnerable to an opportunist attack as we "ladies" are.
I've walked through the park with friends while it was getting late and deserted, and spotted shifty men following lone people, obviously waiting for an opportunity, whether for robbery or something voluntary. I've seen then switch targets. Unless you want to meet a stranger, you're stupid to be walking around on your own when the park is emptying. These predators know the park like the back of their hand, and they just walk around, ready to take advantage of a situation.
Nobody with a brain should walk around alone in a park when it's deserted, and that means in the afternoon during school hours when there's nobody there, too. Stuff happens.
Stay away from areas where there are high concentrations of lower class disenfranchised blacks and latinoes, unlike the edumacated ones like me that troll these message boards, the others don't give a "f*ck" and are inaccessible to reason. Anything can happen anywhere but common sense and conventional wisdom will keep you safe for the most part. I know as a public statement this will offend some people but I am on a crusade to verbalize people's visceral feelings, I think our silence on the obvious is what suppresses progress.
FYI, Central Park West is not in Central Park. It's basically the same as 8th avenue. Safety can depend on whether you're walking on the west or east side of the street. The east side of CPW is the side directly adjacent to the park, where there are benches and hence loiterers late at night. I've never gotten anything beyond verbal heckling (women get it more than men), but if you're ever on CPW/CPN late at night are are sketched out, just cross to the other side of the street. That's what I do when I walk home and have never had any problems. And of course, as with anywhere in the city, be alert.
Also, just to rebut some of the imagery of West Harlem (we usually only hear about it as that place uptown where crime happens), my area, just above the park, is for the most part a nice residential area. It's the kind of place where people will have sidewalk cookouts in the summer, and where children run and play in the streets. It's a shame when that sense of community is disrupted by crime.
It's a question of "probability density", these discussions are always problematic because people are not "things"- you can't make absolute statements on behaviour , there are plenty of lovely, upright or just plain normal folks in the worst of neighborhoods, but when you meet the the one or two or more bad apples, your ass is grass.
Valid point chris lee. This is why I follow the Bush doctrine and preemptively mace blacks and latinos after dark.
The transplants must realize the park isn't insulated from the neighborhoods around. The park's population is a representation of whats around the park. Pull out your high priced GPS gadget and see where you are in the park. 59st is very different from 110 street.
Cheeky Billiamsburg..but what are you REALLY saying behind your smokescreen of irony?
So I guess the NYPD needs more cops to harrass bicyclists instead of cleaning up the garbage in Central Park. Even cops in Wichita Kansas know how to deal with the riff raff.
Why must you talk down to people from Kansas? It's just this type of neo-lib elitist thinking that makes people hate NY. OH wait, you're just a neo-lib shill who gets marching orders from Hollywood, sorry.