The Lululemon Athletica at 216 Columbus Ave (corner of West 70th Street) was robbed twice on Saturday. No weapons were used in either heist and nobody was harmed, according to an NYPD spokesperson.
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The first burglary took place at roughly 10:04 a.m. on Saturday, minutes after the store opened. We’re told two males came in and lifted $6,600 worth of merchandise before taking off. Both suspects are still at large.
The second incident took place at about 4:45 p.m. This time it was four individuals: two males, one female and one unidentified person marched in carrying laundry bags and filled their sacks with an estimated $9,700 worth of Lululemon gear.
Suspects from both robberies are still at large.
ILTUWS observed two police officers filing a report inside the store on Saturday at 6:26 p.m.
It’s common for this Lululemon location to have a permanent security guard standing at the entrance. ILTUWS noticed a security guard inside Lululemon at the time police were filing their report, but it’s unknown if security was on hand when the two robberies took place.
It appeared to be business as usual when ILTUWS visited Lululemon on Sunday, with a security guard at his post by the entrance. The store’s manager said they were unable to comment on the matter during our visit.
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Earlier this month, Lincoln Convenience — just a couple avenues away — was robbed for the second time in three days. A friend of the clerk was shot in the foot and the suspects got away with a large amount of cash and CBD oil.
Another business in the area, LensCrafters at 70th and Broadway, also experienced a double whammy robbery late last year. Two thefts (within the span of about a month) incurred a loss of about $41,000 worth of eyewear. At around the same time, the Blue Marble Ice Cream on 97th and Broadway endured multiple robberies.
The New York Daily News reports a robberies were up 37% in July 2022 compared to the previous year. Grand larcenies were up 41%.
Not sure what the security guard would actually do, but she on her phone 100% of the time.
If alleged “security” personnel are not ex-cops or licensed to carry a firearm, they are of no value in these “smash and grab” robberies. Bad guys race in, one pepper sprays the guard, and now, he or she is down for the count. It’s that simple. The other one
jumps the counter, and ransacks the cash register; if there are two more in the crew,
they grab the watches and jewelry, the glasses frames, CBD, gym apparel, sneakers, whatever the stores specialty is and they go into duffle bags to be fenced then resold on-line in less than 3 hours They barely need a fourth or fifth person as look-out because they’re in and out in under 5 minutes, if that long. They head for a car, mopeds or for different subway entrances and they are ghosts. Period. End of story. Manhattan DA did a wonderful job assuring almost everyone that these crimes are not likely to be of great interest to prosecute….insurance covers most of the loss….so the bad guys are going to have a field day. We’re seeing living proof of this day after day. The Mayor doesn’t seem to be doing anything about it, does he? City’s in fine shape….
San Francisco voters recently booted their DA for being soft-on-crime. It’s time we do the same with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. He’s promised not to prosecute many crimes he considers “low-level”. There’s a petition to boot him and slow down NYC’s spiral downward:
https://www.change.org/p/constituents-remove-manhattan-da-bragg-demand-a-recall-election-now
“We’re told two males came in and lifted $6,600 worth of merchandise before taking off. Both suspects are still at large.
The second incident took place at about 4:45 p.m. This time it was four individuals: two males, one female and one unidentified person marched in carrying laundry bags and filled their sacks with an estimated $9,700 worth of Lululemon gear.”
No descriptions of the subjects other than gender?
Well, that would be racist. That’s why. They are underprivileged and really needed the workout gear.
Exactly! For example, who wants to know the predominant race of those mass murderers who tend to be of a specific narcissistic skin-color type? And instead of describing them as ” underprivileged and really needed the workout gear” , they are called insane or such after they kill their parents, classmates, neighbors, the underprivileged, and total strangers. How about that for thoughtless generalization?