Jackson Heights Life

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/lock-up-your-safes/?ref=nyregion


Having a nice strong safe with sturdy locks is not much help if someone can just wheel the whole thing out the door of your apartment. Such a brazen act of criminality was performed, and captured on video, in a building in Elmhurst, Queens, recently.

A surveillance video released by the police Wednesday shows a man entering an elevator at 78-36 46th Avenue on the afternoon of May 3 carrying nothing but a walking cane, and re-entering it more than two and a half hours later, wheeling an office chair atop which sits a large squarish object covered in a white cloth.

The police say that the object beneath the cloth was a safe containing an undetermined amount of cash and jewelry. In an apparent effort at inconspicuousness, the man is wearing a beige kerchief knotted atop his head when he leaves; when he enters, he is bareheaded.

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