MEAN STREET: Marjorie Ramondetta, 93, whose wedding photo (inset) recalls old Washington Heights, yesterday shows bruises from her assault. (
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A Queens grandma returned to her childhood home in Washington Heights to see how it had changed after 73 years — and got an ugly dose of reality.
Marjorie Ramondetta, 93, and her daughter Linda Reynolds, 65, were allegedly shoved down a flight of stairs in the building by a thug who then stole their pocketbooks, law-enforcement sources said.
“After we fell, he took the bags,” a still-bruised Reynolds told The Post yesterday. “I heard my mother say, ‘Please help me! I ran upstairs, and I’m yelling, ‘Call the cops! Call the cops! Someone help us!’ ”
Ramondetta, who hadn’t been back to the building since 1940, added, “We’ve never had such an upset in our life.”
The women arrived at the building on Amsterdam Avenue and 164th Street on Tuesday at 12:20 p.m. to snap photos for a family scrapbook, Reynolds said.
Ramondetta was sitting on the stoop getting her picture taken by Reynolds when the alleged thug — identified as career criminal Richard Davidson — greeted them.
“He said, ‘Can I help you?’ He was clean-cut, clean clothes, clean-shaven. He looked decent,” Reynolds recalled.
Davidson, 25, asked them if they lived in the building, and Ramondetta said that “she was born there and wanted to see what it looked like at present day,” according to a police source.
He then escorted the women to the second-floor apartment, where Ramondetta once lived, the police source said.
“He [then] says, ‘I have to get my keys downstairs,’ ” according to Reynolds. “He came back up and said, ‘I’m not going to hurt you.’ ”
Davidson then allegedly grabbed for their purses, but the women wouldn’t let go of them.
“I tried to kick him. I don’t know if I kicked him in the legs, but my object was not the legs — if you know what I mean,” Reynolds said.
Davidson then threw the women down approximately 10 stairs, Reynolds said.
He allegedly scooped up their purses and ran away, sources said.
The women were treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
“I’m in so much pain,” Reynolds said, showing her back and buttocks covered in dark bruises.
Later that day, Davidson was arrested on an unrelated grand-larceny charge.
While in custody, he allegedly confessed to stealing the purses as well as to a similar case on Aug. 2.
Davidson has 21 prior arrests dating back to 2008.