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December 20, 2010
Attention, Fort Greene shoppers! Robberies are up — just in time for the holiday
The Brooklyn Paper
by Aaron Short
Wait a second — we though depopulating the Atlantic Yards footprint was going to put an end to neighborhood crime?
Hold onto your wallets in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill — robberies are up more than 42 percent this month.
The spike in thefts — 20 this month compared to 14 during the same period last year — is part of a year-long trend in the 88th Precinct. For the year, robberies are up 18.3 percent.
...In other crimes, perps ripped iPods off music lovers on N. Portland Avenue and Cambridge Place in separate incidents, stole a Pratt Institute student’s laptop from a school cafeteria, and snatched four purses at stores within the troubled Atlantic Center Mall.
Posted by eric at December 20, 2010 10:15 AM