The police say that they managed to arrest three people suspected of robbing a couple on Central Park West last night. And one of the suspects had a loaded .380 caliber semi-automatic handgun. more ›

An 80-year-old man was mugged inside his apartment building by two men yesterday. The attack occurred Thursday around 3:15 p.m. on the Upper East Side after the two suspects followed the victim into the building. One put the elderly man into a chokehold when they reached the second floor, while the other grabbed his wallet. You can see surveillance video of the suspects entering and then fleeing the building below. more ›

The NYPD is looking for the public's help in finding a man suspected of punching then robbing someone near Central Park on Wednesday. The weapon of choice? An ice pick! more ›

The NYPD is asking for the public's help in identifying 12 teenaged suspects accused of robbing and assaulting two other teen girls on a southbound 4 train in March. There was hair-pulling and French fries-stealing. more ›

A 26-year-old Bronx man on his way home from work was fatally shot early this morning by a robber who was after his iPhone. Police say Hwang Yang was held at gunpoint by the suspect at the corner of Cambridge Avenue and West 232 Street around 12:30 a.m.—it's unclear what exactly happened, but the suspect shot Yang once at close range. According to the News, one witness heard the shot and "saw the thug walk up to Yang’s body, kick him over, rifle through his pockets and snatch his iPhone." more ›

Last week, the NYPD said that a woman approached another woman outside the the Chase Bank at Broadway and West 73rd Street, claiming she was a cop. According to cops, the suspect, described as a black female in her 30s around 5'5" and 125-130 pounds, "then removed the victim's wallet from her purse and removed the victim's Chase Bank debit card.  The suspect then fled the location to parts unknown." Now the police have updated with some new information: It seems the suspect is actually a man. more ›

Police are on the lookout for a middle aged robber who pulled off a brazen job at a Washington Heights Gristede's Monday evening. As you can see for yourself in the below surveillance video, the robber, described by cops as a black man between 50 and 60 years old with a gray beard and glasses, is as casual as can be when he walks into the store, seemingly chatting away on his cellphone. And then out comes the gun. more ›

Yesterday afternoon, police responded to a 911 about a robbery in progress at the Piccolini baby store on Mulberry Street. According to the NYPD, a worker said that she had left her iPad on the counter, and then "an unknown male black entered the store, grabbed the iPad, and fled towards East Houston Street." Naturally, the NYPD immediately began a canvass. more ›

A surveillance camera from the bodega shows the suspects, including one who is filming the crime: more ›

Police have released very clear surveillance video of a man who allegedly robbed a livery cab driver after a trip from Queens to Manhattan. more ›

We all know how much thieves love iPhones—but it seems we may have encountered the king of all iPhone thieves on the Upper East Side. Police are searching for a bike-riding thief who they believe has stolen 18 iPhones this year on the UES—and all but one of the victims were women. Below, check out video of him moments before his latest robbery on March 20th. more ›

The police are looking for two suspects in connection with two robberies in Manhattan. Both incidents, which occurred on Tuesday, involved the suspects punching people in order to take their smartphones. more ›

He uses Vaaaaaa-seline. Cops think they've got a suspect in a series of robberies in which a prolific perp smeared Vaseline over the peepholes of his victim's neighbor's doors to cover his tracks. Police now suspect that Luis Gonzalez, 40, is the man behind the brazen crimes and are hoping to talk to him. Since September of last year police think he's hit at least 14 homes. more ›

Police in Queens are looking for help finding a man they suspect has been behind a string of recent robberies targeting food cart vendors. Since March 2 the man is believed to have been involved in at least nine robberies, eight of which involved food carts. more ›

The 81-year-old man whose iPhone was stolen and then was shoved into Brooklyn subway tracks says that he's thankful to the subway riders in the station who helped him. Andrew Wang, who spent three days in the hospital after the incident at the Lorimer Street J train station, told the Daily News, "Other people came and helped me. It was God who helped. Thank God, I’m all right." more ›

Police are seeking the public's help in finding three men who posed as NYPD officers to knock over a check cashing business in Queens on Tuesday. The men were wearing blue NYPD jackets and wore badges around their necks when they entered a Pay-O-Matic check cashing business on South Conduit Avenue around 8 a.m. and identified themselves as NYPD detectives. Two of the men wore Yankees baseball caps, and as you can see by the surveillance photo here, that bald guy definitely looks the part. more ›

While cops are being trained on how to use Find My iPhone to find stolen iPhones, sometimes it's just easiest to have some good Samaritans nearby to stop a smartphone robbery. That's what happened to one woman in Midtown earlier this month. more ›

The police say that four teens, including a 13-year-old boy, have been arrested for "a broad-daylight home invasion that degenerated from armed robbery into the sexual assault of a Brooklyn woman for nearly an hour," according to the Post. more ›

A 15-year-old Jersey City boy was arrested last night in Lower Manhattan for stealing an iPhone on the PATH train in a PAPD operation that involved six plainclothes officers. PAPD spokesman Al Della Fave tells us that the boy was observed riding back and forth between Exchange Place and the World Trade Center stations for just over an hour looking for targets, and just after 8:10 p.m., he allegedly grabbed a rider's iPhone before being detained at Exchange Place. iPhone thieves: those six people on the train probably are watching you! more ›

Cops are searching for a man who brazenly robbed a Greenpoint Dunkin' Donuts this week and escaped unscathed, with a pile of cash (though strangely, no crullers). The crime took place on Monday shortly before 9:30 p.m. at the DD on McGuinness Boulevard near the Pulaski Bridge. A man "approached the counter, pulled a black handgun, ordered the cashier to open the register, grabbed an undetermined amount of money from it and fled in a black car," according to police. No one was injured. more ›

Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man suspected of tying up and beating a 23-year-old woman while robbing a Tribeca office on Monday afternoon. more ›

Poor guys, thieves breaking into apartments have another thing to worry about now. In addition to hoping that they don't run into anyone or trip any alarms, now they've got to watch out for folks who set up motion-detecting cameras that send pictures of them red-handed to homeowners. The future! more ›

Three 15-year-old boys playing handball in Sara Roosevelt Park last night at around 7:40 p.m. were approached by a group of six men and one woman. According to the NYPD, the group brandished a pistol and demanded that the teenagers empty their pockets. When they refused, the boys were shot with pepper spray, and the assailants ran. more ›

Seemona Sumasar, the Queens woman who claimed that she was framed for robbery by her ex after she filed rape charges against him, took the stand yesterday and it was reportedly as teary as you might expect. Sumasar's life crumbled—she was separated from her daughter while in jail for seven months, had her house foreclosed on and lost her restaurant—in the ordeal and when she described being bound and raped by her ex-lover, "several [jury] members could be seen wiping tears from their eyes." more ›

Last week, a Queens teenager was stabbed to death as a gang of other teens attempted to rob him of his iPhone. Police have now arrested 17-year-old Stephon Huffman for the botched robbery and murder of Patrick Dixon. more ›

If your arm was nearly chopped in off in a fatal car crash over the summer, then painstakingly reattached through several surgeries, the first thing you'd do when you got out of the hospital is rob your local Little League office with your homeless BFF, right? Totally! more ›

A would-be robber foiled by two plainclothes cops crashed a stolen car into a fence while trying to escape in an early-morning crime on Staten Island. Also, there was a shootout! more ›

Pastrami-lovers, watch your pocketbooks—a thief has been snatching bags from unsuspecting diners at the Houston Street institution Kat'z Deli, and she's still on the loose. more ›

A group of masked ATM robbers are on the loose across Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Park Slope, identifiable only by their signature move: splashing the crime scene with bleach. Wait, where have we seen this so-called "cash'n'splash" move before? Oh, right in that Ben Affleck movie The Town! Kids really do imitate celebrities these days. more ›