A Brooklyn author whose bike was stolen from a subway station managed to get it back in record time after spotting the item for sale on Craigslist, then enlisting local cops for a ting operation.
Jami Attenberg, 38, said that she locked up her bike near the Marcy Avenue station Thursday night on her way to see Arcade Fire play Madison Square Garden and that when she returned at 1 a.m. Friday, it was gone.
Attenberg scoured Craigslist for a replacement and found a yellow Schwinn for $75.
“I almost started laughing. It was definitely my bike!” she later wrote on her blog.
Attenberg arranged to meet the seller, then called police, who set up a “sting” in front of Peter Luger’s steakhouse.
The seller was arrested on a charge of petit larceny, but that was dropped after he claimed to have bought the bike from someone else.