Manhattan restaurants hit by repeat burglaries as owners blame lack of cops

[Kamaji]

Manhattan restaurants hit by repeat smash-and-grab burglaries as owners blame lack of cops

By Jeanette Settembre
June 29, 2023

A thief smashed the glass door of Lower East Side Argentinian restaurant Balvanera around 4 a.m. Sunday morning fleeing with $400 from the cash drawer.

It’s the restaurant’s third break-in since last year, ringing up a tab of thousands of dollars in damages.

“Every time, they break the glass and walk right to the cash register,” Fernando Navas, chef and owner of Balvanera on Stanton St., told The Post.

“I called 911. I told them, ‘I’m letting you know this is the third time [the restaurant was attacked],” Navas said.

He is not alone: Restaurant owners across Manhattan are being hit by an uptick in restaurant smash-and-grab burglaries, they tell The Post.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/06/29/manhattan-restaurants-were-being-hit-by-smash-and-grab-wave/

[Kamaji]

Two points:

(a) you did vote for this shit, you know, and

(b) why are you leaving large amounts of cash in the cash register after hours?

[dfwgator]

No sympathy, this is obviously what New Yorkers want, based on who they voted for.

[Hoodat]

No sympathy, this is obviously what New Yorkers want, based on who they voted for.

Yep.  This was the #1 issue on the ballot last election - more cops v. less cops.   The people chose 'less cops'.

[Kamaji]

No sympathy, this is obviously what New Yorkers want, based on who they voted for.

I cannot disagree.

[mountaineer]

Probably could have started a separate thread for this one, but wanted to piggyback onto a story about crime in Manhattan:

Beloved NYC doorman slashed near jugular saving disabled tenant from mugger
By Deirdre Bardolf   
July 1, 2023 10:12am Updated
 

A heroic Upper East Side doorman was slashed just inches from his jugular vein while saving a wheelchair-bound resident from an unhinged mugger.

Brian Smith was helping the disabled tenant enter The Fontaine building on East 72nd Street just after 3 a.m. Sunday.

Unbeknownst to either man, a thug dressed in a black sweatshirt, hat, and facemask had been following the tenant back from an ATM near First Avenue, according to people who saw surveillance footage.  ...

Smith was rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he needed more than 20 stitches to close the nine-inch gash.

“They had to sew an artery back together,” Smith said.  ...

John Battle, another East 72nd Street doorman, blamed catch-and-release policies pushed by soft-on-crime District Attorney Alvin Bragg. ...

NY Post

[Hoodat]

John Battle, another East 72nd Street doorman, blamed catch-and-release policies pushed by soft-on-crime District Attorney Alvin Bragg. ...

Didn't NY just have an election where one of the candidates (Lee Zeldin) campaigned loudly and heavily to end catch-and-release policies?

[Fishrrman]

Hoodat asked:
"Didn't NY just have an election where one of the candidates (Lee Zeldin) campaigned loudly and heavily to end catch-and-release policies?"

Yes. Against Hochul, the governor.
She trashed him in the election. He didn't even get close enough to be a threat.

Moral: New Yorkers -- at least the urban ones -- are getting what most of them vote for.
See map here:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-new-york-governor.html
The problem is that the population is so concentrated in the big cities, the rural folks have little say at all in statewide elections...