It’s the most wonderful time of the year for NYC thieves, pickpockets

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Grinch grand larcenists are primed for the holiday rush and New York’s Finest told The Post they’re ready.

Santa Claus isn’t the only one checking his Big Apple wish list — thieves are too.

Major crime in the West Village’s Sixth Precinct is up 52% this year, with the lowlights being robbery spiking 38% , burglary soaring 76% and grand larcenies climbing 61% so far this year through Nov. 27, compared the same period in 2022, NYPD data show. Petty larcenies are also up 52% . Outside Bloomingdale’s on Broadway, near Broome Street in SoHo, tourist Stefanie Alram, 26, of Austria, was armed with pepper spray given to her by a New Yorker friend. Alram said “it was way safer” in the city before COVID then it is now.

“I only carry my wallet in the front pocket when I go out at night and the phone goes in the coat pocket,” Grim noted.

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