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UWS Tobacco Shop Shooting Suspects Questioned

2008_12_alto.jpgPolice found three suspects involved in the shooting of the operator of Alex's Tobacco shop on Broadway at West 71st Street. WABC 7 reports the three were found at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The store's manager is stable condition after the 4:30 p.m. incident yesterday; according to the Post, "One of the men fired a shot into the air to announce they were robbing the store...[Then] one of the robbers then grabbed a box as the other fired a shot that hit the charging owner in the hip." (The shop is a popular lottery ticket destination, as it's right near the West 72nd 1/2/3 station.) Witnesses had seen two masked men leave in an idling car, which was later found abandoned on West End Avenue. And a resident told the Daily News, "I can't believe this happened in this neighborhood. It must be the economy."

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  • Wza

    I was hoping to see the Warriors getting chased by the Furies around that area again.

  • whitecastlerock

    Unlikely the area will return to the halcyon days of Panic in Needle Park. Many of the SRO hotels of yesteryear have been converted to luxury apartments.

  • fugothamist

    maybe that area will return to what it was like in the movie "Panic in Needle Park"

    If you haven't seen it - i highly reccomend for some gritty NYC nostalgia

  • I walked by around 730 and the area was crawling with cops and news camera's. I think we're gonna start to see a lot more violent crime now that the economy is depressed... what's more scary is that the economy hasn't hit rock bottom yet.

  • Felix Hoenikker

    Yeah, they probably lost their shirts with Madoff.

  • fugothamist

    LOVE the last sentence!

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