Major crimes are surging in both the East and West villages, turning Manhattan’s once iconic arts and culture hubs into cesspools of rampant property thieves.
Robberies rocketed from 47 to 69, or 47 percentResidents and business owners there are fed up with the abundance of shoplifters that include vagrants, small-time fencers and even families.
Sara Morales at the West 4th Market Place said she’s dealt with constant shoplifters since the deli opened in January. Despite threats to her business and health, Morales said she’ll often give away food if vagrants simply ask.Kyle McCoy, who manages Atelier on W. 8th St., recently stopped a father, mother and teenage daughter from swiping a $1,300 skirt. He said there’s no solution because bail reform laws go easy on criminals. An NYPD spokesperson said the Sixth Precinct’s neighborhood coordination and public safety officers are now focusing their patrols more on commercial establishments and retail stores.
Zachary Westcott, 41, entered the Old G Connivance store on W. 14th Street in January and brandishing a weapon he said to the clerk, “Give me a pack of Newports or I will kill,” police reports say. Westcott was later charged in other cases for assault, petit larceny and assaulting police officers.Helayne Seidman
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