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.

UWS Crime Blotter: Manslaughter Sentencing, Designer Purse Snatcher, Sweet-Toothed Bandit

Saturday morning round-up of recent Upper West Side crime-related news: The Post reports David McKie was recently sentenced to 15 years in prison for vehicular manslaughter after killing 39-year-old Karen Schmeer in January 2010. McKie struck Schmeer as she was crossing Broadway at West 90th. At the time of the accident, McKie was “trying to [...]

Upper West Side Crime Blotter: St. Agnes Library Clerk Embezzles $46,000

A clerk at the Upper West Side St. Agnes branch of the New York Public Library (444 Amsterdam, between 81st & 82nd) was recently arrested for grand larceny. He’s accused of ripping off more than $46K from book sale fundraisers.

NYPD Catching Central Park Thieves With The Oldest Trick In The Book

Apparently thieves in Central Park are just idiots (not that I had previously assumed they were their high school class’ salutatorian).

Upper West Side Starbucks Reject Anti-Crime Efforts By NYPD

I’m not a coffee drinker and my visits to Starbucks are limited to when I’m with the MyUpperWest Gal and she wants a cup (does Starbucks even call them “cups” or do they have an obnoxious fancy word instead? Do they even still call it “coffee”?). If I were a regular customer, I wouldn’t be [...]