recent burglaries in PH/CH

lydiabrunch

I know, I know, another one of "those" threads, but:

So my apartment was burgled a few months ago, by someone who came in the fire escape window. They caught him breaking into someone else's apartment recently and I was subpoenaed to appear in front of the Grand Jury this morning.

(Before someone even starts: Yeah yeah, there were no bars on my fire escape window. They aren't exactly cheap. The landlord is not required to install them, at least not if you're a few floors up - not sure about ground floor apartments. The courtyard that the fire escape goes into is enclosed. And I've lived in window-bar-free apartments in much sketchier NYC neighborhoods in the last 20 years without incident. I took my chances and lost. Lesson learned, I bit the bullet and got them installed after the burglary. Snide comments about how I should have installed them the nanosecond I moved in not required.)

Anyway, the prosecuting attorney mentioned something I thought was interesting. I jokingly asked if the guy lived close to where he worked. He responded, "Actually, he said that he liked to take the train out to Franklin Avenue and start working his way in from there."

He was being charged with seven burglaries, mostly (maybe all) in PH and CH.

So, yeah. We are officially desirable neighborhoods for burglars. Well, at least this burglar, anyway.

ETA: Aaah, crap. I meant to post this on the PH board. Can a mod move this post, and possibly crosslink to CH if that's appropriate?