The Bronx
Two robbers netted valuables and $900 in cash in an armed robbery at a Norwood home, cops said.
The two entered the Decatur Avenue house at about 8:15 p.m. April 9, pulled guns, bound a resident with tape, and swiped cash, jewelry, a credit card and a cellphone, police said.
The victim was treated for minor injuries, officials added.
Less than an hour later, the robbers tried to use the victim’s card at the Rite-Aid near West 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem, Âauthorities said.
Surveillance video from the pharmacy shows one suspect wearing a gray ÂT-shirt with white lettering in a red box on the front.
His partner was seen wearing a purple and black baseball cap.
Manhattan
A wireless-Internet provider discovered that a two-month outage in its subway-service area was caused by someone who went into a manhole in Chelsea and deliberately cut wires, sources said.
Police are investigating the report, which resulted in an outage that began at about 6 p.m. Feb. 6, and was finally discovered by Transit Wireless workers on April 8, sources said.
So far, investigators don’t know who committed the likely act of vandalism or why.
A shoplifter stole more than $1,600 worth of wallets from a luxury clothing store in Soho, police sources said.
The thief walked into Mulberry on Spring Street at about 2:25 p.m. Sunday while an employee was helping a customer in the front of the store, sources added.
The thief made a beeline for the rear, plucked two wallets from a display case and two more from a shelf, then hustled out, triggering shoplifting-sensor alarms, sources said.
The employee quickly discovered that two Daria Continental wallets worth $500 each and two eight-card wallets worth $330 each were gone, sources said.
A review of video-surveillance footage revealed a 6-foot-tall, 195-pound thief wearing blue jeans and a blue sport jacket snatching the goods, sources added.
No arrests have been made.
A man at lunch in a Financial District eatery put on his jacket and realized his wallet containing $40 and a credit card had been stolen — and the thief wasted no time trying to make a purchase with the card, sources said.
The 44-year-old victim entered the Au Bon Pain near Pearl and Pine streets at about 12:30 p.m. April 10, ate his lunch, prepared to depart and realized his wallet was gone, sources added.
He told cops he did not recall having been jostled or bumped.
At about 2 p.m., someone tried to buy $1,700 worth of electronics with the credit card at a Best Buy, sources said, but the victim had already canceled the plastic.
No arrests have been made.
Three absent-minded, zealous trash tossers threw out important property with their refuse and Âreported it to cops, sources said.
A 46-year-old resident of West 28th Street accidentally threw the license plate for his boat trailer down his trash chute at about 5 p.m. April 5, the sources said.
And two residents of an apartment on West 18th Street threw out their passports at about 3 p.m. last Friday, the sources said.
The three filed police reports for the now-missing license plates, a St. Lucia passport, a green card and a British passport, the sources added.
Queens
Four men beat a 17-year-old deli worker and stole about $30,000 from the ÂAstoria store’s lockbox, cops said.
Two of the goons entered the En-Express Deli on Main Avenue near Welling Court at 3 a.m. last Saturday, cops said.
They asked an employee to help them select an item at the rear of the store, then forced him into a back room and attacked him, according to police.
One of the robbers let two more accomplices in through the front door and acted as a lookout while his pals busted into the lockbox, officials said.
The foursome ran off with around $30,000, and the teen worker was treated for minor injuries, sources said.
All four are believed to be in their early 20s.
The lookout was last seen wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt.