Upper West Side Week In Review: 9/19 – 9/25/11

A round-up of some of the most popular posts from the past week: Massive UWS Water Main Break Turns CPW Into River & Snarls Subway Service Tickets On Sale For 49th Annual New York Film Festival At Lincoln Center UWS Becomes “Wild West” Side As Horse Gallops Wildly Through The Streets Dead Body Pulled From [...]

Upper West Side Crime Blotter: Armed Robbery & Fashion Week Theft

Police are on the hunt for an armed gunman who robbed an Upper West Side store and a fashion thief who made off with a $4,000 designer jacket.

Upper West Side Week In Review: 9/6 – 9/11/11

Slightly shortened “Week In Review” due to last week’s Labor Day holiday and fewer posts during the week due to some travel… A round-up of some of the most popular posts from the past week: NYPD On The Hunt For Two Gunmen Wanted For Recent UWS Armed Robberies “Boarding School Bandit” Gets 16 Months In [...]

“Boarding School Bandit” Gets 16 Months In Prison For Night Of Armed Central Park Muggings

Continuing the crime theme from this morning’s post… Jesse Wasserman (a.k.a. The Boarding School Bandit) was sentenced to 16 months in prison yesterday for his role in a string of armed muggings in Central Park last summer.

NYPD On The Hunt For Two Gunmen Wanted For Recent Upper West Side Armed Robberies

A normally sleepy stretch of West End Avenue has yielded a pair of armed robberies over the past three weeks and police believe the same two gunmen are responsible for both heists.