Brooklyn
A mugger bashed the back of a man’s head with a hammer during a robbery in a Bedford-Stuyvesant subway station, authorities said.
The 32-year-old victim was buying a MetroCard in the Rockaway Avenue station on the A line Wednesday at about 9:20 a.m. when the attacker approached him from behind, slammed his head with a hammer, and demanded money, cops said.
The victim handed over cash and the mugger bolted from the station, police said.
The man was treated for a head injury at Brookdale Hospital and released, according to officials.
The suspect (above) was captured on camera flashing a broad smile moments before the savage attack.
He is about 5-foot-10, around 140 pounds and was last seen wearing a red long-sleeved shirt and dark pants.
Bronx
What a pair of gym rats!
A man and a woman took a 44-year-old woman’s wallet after the victim left it in a Foxhurst fitness center, authorities said.
The pair spied the victim’s wallet sitting on a counter inside the Planet Fitness on Southern Boulevard, near Westchester Avenue, on April 24 at about 1:45 p.m., cops said.
They grabbed the wallet and walked out of the gym, police said.
The victim’s credit cards were later used to make several unauthorized purchases, cops added.
Surveillance video from the gym showed the male suspect wearing a gray long-sleeved shirt and a backpack.
His female accomplice wore a gray shirt, a dark vest with studs and a backpack.
Manhattan
A bandit robbed two Midtown banks in a four-day period, police said.
The suspect, identified by police as Michael Crowley, 41, walked into the HSBC on Park Avenue, near East 33rd Street on May 2 at about 3:40 p.m., passed the teller a demand note and fled with cash.
Four days later, he went to the Valley National Bank on Sixth Avenue and West 39th Street at about 11:30 a.m., passed the teller a note and fled with cash, police said.
No injuries were reported.
Crowley has a tattoo of Chinese characters on the left side of his neck and a skull, dragon and other tattoos on his left arm.
A bank robber who struck four times in just nine days used a note to threaten tellers and demand cash from The Bronx to Midtown, cops said.
The suspect began the spree on April 17 at Bank of America on Johnson Avenue, near West 235th Street, in Riverdale when he passed a note to a teller and claimed to have a weapon, cops said.
He did not produce a weapon, but the note warned that if the teller didn’t follow orders, the worker would be “in danger.”
The teller balked and the suspect left empty-handed, police added.
The same day, he walked into a Citibank on Broadway near West 207th Street in Inwood, where he passed a similar note, and failed to get any cash, according to cops.
The robber finally scored on April 18 at a Capital One bank on Fifth Avenue, near East 41st Street, where he got away with $2,800, police said.
A week later, he made off with $400 from a Capital One branch on Broadway near West 60th Street, according to cops.
A budding film producer who ordered a computer tower but didn’t open the package for three months found that his $900 machine had vanished.
The victim ordered the equipment and had it delivered to the 10th floor of a building on West 26th Street on Jan. 31, but didn’t look inside until April 30.
When the victim went to retrieve the tower, he found paint cans inside the box.