Recent Spike in Violent Robberies Shocks Central Park Visitors and Authorities

Three violent robberies in just over 24 hours in Central Park, a traditional haven of peace in New York, have raised alarms among visitors and authorities, after the find a body also this week and other recent events.

Central Park has seen a 400% increase in robberies with 15 cases so far this year, compared to three in the same period in 2023, according to official figures from the NYPD, he pointed out Daily News.

The last three cases were reported between Thursday night and yesterday, with a woman and two men as victims.

Around 7:15pm on Thursday a woman, aged 28, was attacked. A rapist can steal his cell phone as she approached West Drive near W. 97th St. The victim was walking in the park and the attacker grabbed her from behind, demanded her phone and purse, and told her he wanted to have sex with her before picking her up dear face

The woman deliberately fell to the ground and bent over, pulling her purse against her body to prevent the thief from grabbing it or trying to take off her clothes, police said. The assailant fled with the phone of the pedestrian, who was not seriously injured.

A few hours later, around 6:15am yesterday, a 42-year-old visitor robbed at gunpoint at the south end of the park, heading towards East 59th Street and East Street, when three men walked up behind him.

One of the robbers pointed a gun at the victim’s head., and the two other observers hit him repeatedly in the face, knocking them to the ground. The criminals took two cell phones and his wallet before running down a bike path to a lake. Paramedics took the man to Lenox Hill Hospital in stable condition.

The third case happened last nightwhen two armed robbers who appeared to be 14 or 15 years old approached a 25-year-old man and demanded he hand over his iPhone 11 around 10:12 p.m. at 110th Street and East Drive, said the police. The teenagers fled without any of what the young man had, he said New York Post.

No arrests have been made or suspects identified in any of these cases. Anyone with information should call at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the page Crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CREATE), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.

In the evening a man was found dead late Wednesday afternoon in the north area of ​​the park near Harlem. At the end of March on Easter Sunday the actor Michael Stuhlbarg, who played gangster Arnold Rothstein in the TV series “Boardwalk Empire”, suffered a cut on his head while rock attack in Central Park.