Buses riding through the Upper West Side have become prime preying grounds for pick-pockets targeting the elderly, The Post has learned.
The callous crooks have robbed 11 senior straphangers on eight different bus lines since the beginning of January, police said.
“They see them as easy prey, these cowards,” Deputy Inspector Brian McGinn, commanding officer of the 20th precinct, said at a recent community meeting.
The creeps hit mostly between 3 p.m. and 11 p.m., swiping property from the purses and bags of older folks who aren’t paying attention, police added. One incident also took place at the bus stop on West 79th Street and Broadway.
“We’re working with transit to get extra personnel on these buses,” McGinn said.
Bus lines affected by the crime wave are the M7, M66, M57, M104, M2, M79, M86 and the M11.