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Newsstand worker robbed, pistol-whipped in second heist along upscale NYC street after moving there for the ‘good area
NY Post ^ | 08/29/2024 | Georgett Roberts, Amanda Woods and Matt Troutman

Posted on 08/30/2024 12:32:53 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A newsstand vendor was robbed twice in recent months — including once by a pair of crooks who pistol-whipped him — after he set up shop on the Upper West Side in a bid to escape crime.

Shah Hossain, 46, said he remains shaken by a brazen broad-daylight robbery Monday in which two gun-toting bandits clobbered him to the ground and snatched $3,000 from his newsstand along Columbus Avenue and West 81st Street.

He suspects the bandits were the same duo who robbed him back in the spring.

“I am watching people from all sides now,” he told The Post on Wednesday.

The heinous heist was both insult and injury for Hossein, who set up a newsstand along the quiet block near the American Museum of Natural History more than a year ago after growing tired of constant thievery at his old One World Trade Center location.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: area; crime; good; heist; newsstand; newyork; nyc; robbed; street; upscale; worker
Good area huh?
1 posted on 08/30/2024 12:32:53 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Time to Escape from New York!


2 posted on 08/30/2024 12:38:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Liberals are FOS. The greatest threat to "democracy" is "immigration". Stupid morons.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

3 posted on 08/30/2024 12:39:44 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Kojak was already on newsstand knock over cases.

https://youtu.be/oV-QxmY1Fa0?si=El8yk58OQRF96yqa


4 posted on 08/30/2024 12:41:11 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Three thousand bucks cash in a (I assume) sidewalk newsstand????

With so few people buying print media anymore due to internet?

I wonder what else the guy was selling.

OH, and there are no “Good Areas” in New York, where your Governor and Mayor are stealing from you and abusing you every day, and importing a million people to rob, beat, and maybe even kill you.


5 posted on 08/30/2024 12:43:46 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Are there any left in NYC? Maybe Staten Island.


6 posted on 08/30/2024 12:45:27 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Vendome

I have the boxed set on DVD.


7 posted on 08/30/2024 12:49:49 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: Vendome

Texas is pretty simple. If you are not a felon you can have a weapon to defend yourself in public if so licensed and it is not difficult to obtain a license for concealed carry. For open carry it is even less rules. In reference to the license it has nothing to do with your home. You can have anything you want in your home. I suspect MOABs and nuclear bombs are not on the list> :).

This is Texas, please be polite to each other.


8 posted on 08/30/2024 12:51:43 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: LegendHasIt; SaveFerris
I wonder what else the guy was selling.

Gum, Clark bars, Penthouse Forum...

9 posted on 08/30/2024 12:55:22 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

People need to arm up and put these fr’kn animals DOWN!!


10 posted on 08/30/2024 12:55:48 PM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Even if caught Commie-la’s bandit bailout fund will likely make sure they can get back out and rob again.


11 posted on 08/30/2024 1:02:05 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)
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To: LegendHasIt
I wonder what else the guy was selling.

NYC newsstands normally also sell candy and cigarettes. Sometimes they'll stock convenience items, like batteries, combs, nail clippers. They might have a small fridge to sell cold soda.

12 posted on 08/30/2024 1:02:41 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah, but they’ll all still vote for the Red Fascists.


13 posted on 08/30/2024 1:03:52 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

the crooks probably got away with 13 cartons of cigarettes, a six pack of coke... and one NY Times to cover their stash.
I think that covers the 3K


14 posted on 08/30/2024 3:04:58 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop ( ~~ TRUMP is right about EVERYTHING ! ~~ )
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