In late October, a group of six reportedly entered the LensCrafters at 2050 Broadway (corner of 70th Street) and stole over $18,000 worth of product from the store.
About a month later, another complaint was made – this time for a theft amounting to $23,000 worth of glasses. An NYPD representative told ILTUWS that on Tuesday, November 23 at 9:20am, a complaint was made stating that “three males entered the store and began to remove tray[s] containing glasses,” and that when a store employee tried to call 911, “one of the suspects threatened physical harm” (though no weapons were displayed).
Police sources told the New York Post that the suspects “grabbed 32 Prada frames, eight BB, 16 Tory Burch, 21 Versace, six Gucci, one Coach and one BV frame.”
“The suspects fled on foot towards West 70 Street. The suspects are described as three male Blacks in their 20s. There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing,” states the NYPD.
It is unclear whether any of the suspects from October’s robbery may have been involved in the most recent incident, but no arrests for either incident have been reported as of writing.
It’s disgusting what these subhuman pieces of garbage are doing to businesses around the country. Be careful who you vote for
Harriet:
Thank you for your concern about looting by Wall Street.
Aren’t there security cameras in this store?
Pardon??
You’re concerned about looting.
Aren’t you concerned about looting, thievery and violence? You must be very brave
Sure Harriet,
I’m concerned about thievery and looting, and going by dollars, this is minor compared to Wall Street looting.
Violence, yes, the shooting outside the McDonald’s across Broadway concerns me. As does the unproscuted police violence during the summer of 2020 in NYC.
I’m puzzled that Lens Crafters doesn’t appear to have installed security cameras after the Oct. theft. The Post has no photos.
This is completely nuts. Justified looting because, well, Wall Street, of course. Always a handy bogeyman. And, you know, the past was violent.
Stay focused jay, we weren’t discussing Wall Street. We’re concerned about neighborhood theft, violence and vile criminal behavior. Wall Street is a whole different topic
Harriet,
You’re the one who brought up looting and violence. So I cited real instances of both, neither prosecuted, but in both cases there’s solid evidence of who committed the crimes.
Now, I assure you if these thieves are identified, they will be prosecuted. Let us hope, the store is simply sitting on video evidence for some unknown reason.
“neighborhood theft”. Right, many of the powers on Wall Street live in the neighborhood.
You should gone with retail robbery. But of course bank robberies (at the teller window) are hardly a new thing in the last 2 years on the upper west side. The Chase on Columbus at 72nd is a frequent target of robbers. And it’s not like there haven’t been other retail robberies over the last 10 years in the neighborhood.
This robbery is remarkable because of the repeat nature, and that the store is on a busy bit of Broadway. The thieves will never get the $18000 retail for the frames, so it’s nothing compared to the robbery of a bucket containing millions of dollars in gold leaf from a van at the 5th avenue end of West 47th, BUT that was more 2 years ago.
As has been the norm now for many months, yesterday on the south west corner of B’way and 72nd street were four policemen chatting away and checking their cell phones. I assume there is a precinct captain who, in theory, manages the officers in his precinct but apparently he is AWOL, too. Sadly, Victoria’s Secret is closing where I have seen officers inside in inclement weather and yes, checking their phones. With the loss of Victoria’s Secret, perhaps they will return to leaning in groups against the wall of the Citibank branch on the corner of B’way and 86th although I actually did see a group of four on the 86th Street subway platform but alas, that was because it was pouring rain outside.
…Or standing in outside of the 95th and Broadway subway entrance each and every one staring at their phones as chaos ensues on truly one of the worst blocks on the UWS. Cars blowing through lights people shooting up on the bench,homeless people and drug addicts harassing and menacing. It is maddening!!!
Spock:
I’d on the SW corner of West 72nd and Broadway at least once a week, and I never see cops there.
But yes, cops checking phones in place of paying attention is a problem.
Jay,
Poor grammer on my part, I have frequently seen police hanging out in groups of 2 or more chatting/checking cell phones. Yesterday was the first time I had seen a group at SW corner of W.72nd & B’way.
Okay, got it.
Right, lots of Candy Crushing and Fbooking at all sorts of corners.
It is time for plain clothes police officers to be patrolling. In addition, I can recall when a police officer was riding every subway train!
We didn’t have people stabbed, or thrown in front of oncoming trains.
All the loss of life these 8 years, and these outrageous robberies are the fault of that Moron occupying the Mayor’s Office at City Hall, along with the other morons who comprise the City Coucil.
Elisa:
“We didn’t have people stabbed, or thrown in front of oncoming trains.”
Yes, we who live in NYC, did. I don’t know where you were living 20 years ago, or 15 years ago, but….
See how ‘Defund the Police’ goes across the country, they are all hiring back now. Hope we see change with Eric Adams.
Absolutely, defund the police and bail reform, which didn’t exclude violent criminals, were the biggest mistakes imaginable. Made by politicians who have security guards protecting them. Let’s hope adams gets things good again