Police have charged a suspect in the fatal beating of a 59-year-old Bronx father who was mugged for $15. Devon Downs, 29, was charged with second-degree murder and robbery in the death of former cab driver Bimal Chanda last fall. An accomplice who also joined in on beating Chanda with a metal object has not been caught yet. “The family is really happy to hear about the arrest, they never thought this day would come,” said Chanda family friend and spokesman Mohammed Ali. “Detectives told us it was a really hard case and that it was hard to identify the suspects.” more ›

The police say a man was mugged and slashed in Central Park around 12:30 this morning. According to the Post, "The man, described as in his 30s and dressed up in a tuxedo, had lost his glasses and “couldn’t see properly,” according to one cop at the scene. As the man stumbled by the rink, he was jumped by a group of men who sliced him in the hand with a knife, and then stole his wallet and an iPod, the officer said. The muggers fled." more ›

The family of the Bronx man who was mugged and beaten over the weekend for $15, and died a few days later of his injuries, claim the attack may have been a hate crime. Family members and neighbors gathered last night outside the funeral home where services for 59-year-old Bimal Chanda, who was Bengali, were held. While police say there's no indication of a hate crime, Chanda's widow believes there had to be a different motive, since the two muggers brutally beat him, yet left his wallet filled with credit cards and $90 in cash, only taking $15 from his pocket: "I've been hearing things, from other family, friends and relatives, other Bengali people, they've been getting mugged on a daily basis, and it's really not acceptable," one family member told NBC. more ›

A Bronx man who was mugged and beaten over the weekend for $15 died from his injuries yesterday. Police say that 59-year-old Bimal Chanda was moving out of his apartment in Fordham when he was attacked by two men who repeatedly struck him with a metal object. more ›

A woman between Inwood Hill Park and Isham Park was violently attacked and robbed by a group of teenagers in the middle of the afternoon yesterday, a brazen act that left neighborhood residents shaken. more ›

Police are asking the public for help in finding three young men caught on surveillance video assaulting a 64-year-old man on August 8th in the lobby of a building in Fordham Heights in the Bronx. Their victim reportedly held the door open for his assailants, who brutally assaulted him and relieved him of his money, his cell phone, and, mysteriously, his Bible. more ›

A jogger was mugged in Central Park yesterday morning around 6:15 a.m. near 110th Street and 5th Avenue. According to WABC 7, "Two suspects approached a 46-year-old man who was jogging in the park and began to punch him. The victim fell to the ground and dropped his iPad, which the robbers picked up before running away." more ›

A respected architect and designer whose work is in the permanent collection of MoMA died yesterday, two weeks after he was beaten during a mugging. South African-born architect Gerald Abramovitz, 82, was best known for his minimalist cantilever desk lamp, which he made for Best & Lloyd, and which is featured in MoMA. "He was a very dynamic, creative, charming person. He had the exuberance of an 18-year-old, and he was still designing," his friend Gene Koretz told the WSJ. more ›

Police released a sketch of a suspect, who along with others, mugged a man in Central Park last Thursday. According to WABC 7, the suspect "is one of four black teens who attacked the 39-year-old Hispanic man while he was walking along the bridal path, near the reservoir, at East 95th Street and East Drive just after 5 p.m." more ›

On Sunday night, a 23-year-old woman was killed during a mugging in Queens. Police said that the suspects fatally shot Rabia Mohammed because she didn't want to give up her purse and now her husband says she was probably trying to save her cellphone, "She was very sentimental. She really cherished our text messages. She has four cellphones that are full. When she doesn't have any memory left, she gets a new phone." more ›

A woman was fatally shot during a Queens mugging—because she refused to hand over her purse. According to the Post, "Rabie Mohammed, 23, was walking on 204th Street near 93rd Avenue with her husband around 8:30 p.m. when three thugs demanded her belongings." more ›

Police are searching for three suspects who robbed an 84-year-old woman near Gramercy Park in Manhattan. The frail 84-year-old, who asked that her name not be released, says she was hit in the back and knocked down as the muggers took her purse: "I was easy prey. I was walking all alone, and looking very vulnerable. I guess someone saw it as easy money," she told the News. more ›

Last week, a man attacked a 96-year-old man in a Queens apartment building in order to steal the senior citizen's money. Now the victim is speaking out: Alfonso Scannapieco told the Daily News, "If I run into him, he's got to fight me. I'm still going to lose, but he's got to fight me." more ›

The 75-year-old Staten Island woman who was beaten by a pair of thugs last month for a grand total of $18 has died, according to authorities. Last month 75-year-old Linda Naimo and her husband Joseph locked up their shop of 40 years, 3J's Variety Store on Victory Boulevard, after celebrating his 81st birthday in there with family. As they were heading into their apartment upstairs a man and woman forced their way into the vestibule and pummeled them to the ground, demanding money. The attack was so severe that it left Linda with a broken nose, a fractured skull, a fractured jaw and a gash down her forehead. Three weeks later she was dead. more ›

The 74-year-old Staten Island woman viciously beaten by two thugs on Sunday is doing ok, considering she suffered brain hemorrhaging, a blood clot, and a broken finger (not to mention a gash down her forehead that doctors had to stitch up) in the attack that sent both her and her husband to the hospital on his 81st birthday. In a bedside interview with the Daily News, Linda Naimo told them "I never hurt nobody. My leg hurts. My finger's broke." more ›

No matter how many times we see or hear stories about thugs attacking the elderly it never ceases to shock us and today's addition to the genre is no different. On Sunday evening two assailants went and beat the crap out of Joseph Naimo and his 74-year-old wife, Linda, on his 81st birthday. The incident, which netted the crooks $18, has Linda in stable but critical condition at Richmond University Hospital with a fractured skull, broken nose and broken jaw. more ›

Police are searching for a woman who robbed and shoved an 81-year-old woman to the ground at a downtown Manhattan subway station. On January 4 at 10:40 p.m., Madeline Klima was swiping her Metrocard at a turnstile at the Fulton Street station when the suspect approached her from behind. Klima, who works as an office cleaner, broke her shoulder and suffered a head laceration; she told the Post, "I knew my bag was gone and I yelled, 'I was robbed!' 'I was robbed!' more ›

Jessie Little, the 90-year-old Harlem resident who was mugged in his apartment building earlier this month, is getting some more holiday cheer. A day after getting $470 from an anonymous WCBS 2 viewer ($370 to replace his stolen money, plus another $100 from Santa), he got another $1,000 in cash and gift cards! The Daily News reports that Key Food "felt compelled to help Little after they read about the man's ordeal in the Daily News" (he was mugged after leaving a Key Food). Little, who was a cook for the merchant marines for 30 years, said, "I've been all over the world, and I had to come home to get robbed." more ›

While the police are looking for the two men who robbed a 90-year-old of $370, the plight of the senior citizen mugging victim moved a WCBS 2 viewer to give Jessie Little a hand. The viewer, who wished to remain anonymous, gave reporter John Slattery $370 to replace Little's money, "I felt bad that this individual was taken advantage of, and if I could do the right thing to help him get back on his feet, I’d be more than happy to," and then added another hundred, explaining, "Tell him Santa Claus said, 'Merry Christmas'" more ›

Yesterday, the police released surveillance video images of two men suspected of attacking and robbing a 90-year-old man in his Harlem apartment building earlier this month. The victim, Jesse Little, has been speaking out, discussing the crime, "One of them put an arm around my neck and pulled me to the ground. The other guy took the money from my pocket," and making his feelings known, "I want to put ‘em in jail for life. That’s what I want. I wish I had a gun. I’d blow their brains out." more ›

Around 7:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving, three thugs jumped Hasidic teacher Joel Weinberger as he left a yeshiva on Harrison Avenue in Williamsburg. The beating left him hospitalized for four days with his jaw wired shut and a broken leg. His assailants, who stole his cell phone, tore his clothing, destroyed religious paraphernalia, and yelled, "We hate you" before leaving Weinberger lying on the sidewalk "basically undressed on the scene," according to local activist Isaac Abraham. But despite interviewing Weinberger at his home yesterday, detectives with the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force have not yet classified the mugging as a bias attack. more ›

An Upper East Side building resident told the Daily News, "There's really no safe place left - nuts can get to you anywhere. No one's walking into the building alone now. We're going in in pairs," after a man robbed a 56-year-old woman entering the East 89th Street building's vestibule yesterday. The suspect, who approached the woman from behind, covered her mouth, and demanded her money, is also believed to be behind four other robberies of women since Wednesday. more ›

Earlier this morning, there were reports about a man struck by a train at Church Street and Park Place. Now the Post reports that a 20-year-old man died, "Police say the man was found unconscious and unresponsive at the Church Street and Park Place station around 2 a.m. Thursday. They say the victim was struck by a northbound E train. He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. It was not immediately known how he wound up on the tracks." Now, it turns out he was on the tracks fleeing the police after a mugging. Hello, subway crime uptick. more ›

The police released a surveillance video still of a man who mugged two women at Manhattan bank ATMs. According to WCBS 2, "Police said the first robbery took place on Sept. 3 around 1 p.m. at a Citibank location in Columbus Circle, then again, a week later, at a Chase ATM on West 23rd Street at mid-morning." In both cases, the suspect approached the women from behind, simulated having a gun and demanded their money. Neither victim was injured. Some women reiterated reminders/suggestions about ATM safety, “Be aware of your surroundings. Make sure all of your personal belongings are close to you,” and “You need to look behind you, look on the side of you, and you should have somebody else with you." more ›

The unidentified 26-year-old waitress from Hawaii who was stabbed by a mugger at the 96th Street and Broadway 1 train platform early Sunday has been talking to the press from her bed at St. Luke's Hospital. The good news is she's in stable condition and recovering from a stab wound to her left side. The bad news is that cops still haven't recovered her purse, which is one of those totally special amazing handbags that has the power to make knife wounds irrelevant. "I can't breathe well: It's like someone's standing on my rib cage," the victim tells the Daily News. "But I wouldn't care if I had my bag." more ›

A woman was stabbed on the UWS by a mugger early this morning when she refused to hand over her pocketbook. The 27-year-old victim was waiting for a northbound 2 train at w 96th St. when the mugger approached her around 2:30 a.m. (DNA Info says it was 1 a.m.). He took out a knife and demanded her purse, but when she refused, he attacked her, stabbed her in the torso, then took off with the handbag. more ›

The NY Post's Police Blotter says a man who mugged an NYU student was arrested: "Victor Gasper, 31, confronted the victim at Thompson Street and Washington Square South at noon Tuesday, cops said. Gasper barked, 'I can get real gangster on you. I can stab you. I know you have $50. Give me your money,'; sources said. When the victim handed over $5, Gasper became irate and snarled, 'Now you disrespected me. Now give me all your money,' sources said. The victim forked over an additional $7." Hello, mugger money! Gasper was charged with robbery more ›

[Update BELOW] Today, the NYPD announced that a second woman was attacked in Riverside Park on July 5. The police say a 48-year-old woman who was walking her dog in the park, when, at 6:20 a.m. and West 98th Street and Riverside Drive, a man walked up behind her, struck her on the back of her head, threw her to the ground and kicked her in the chest and stomach. more ›

The police released a sketch of a "person of interest" wanted for questioning in the mugging of a 19-year-old in Riverside Park on Monday. Marisa Cortright, a Barnard sophomore from Oregon, was jogging in the park near 120th Street at 6 a.m. when a person grabbed her iPod and attacked her—according to the Post, she "was grabbed from behind, punched in the face and had her head slammed into a wall by the thug." more ›

Police are looking for a mugging suspect who attacked a jogger in Riverside Park on Monday morning. According to the Post, "The 19-year-old victim was running by the tennis courts near West 120th Street at 6 a.m. Monday when the thug attacked her and stole her iPod." The suspect allegedly "threw her into a wall," and she hit her head, losing consciousness. more ›