NEW YORK — Video obtained by CBS New York shows someone breaking into a business in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. This isn’t the only business in the area that has recently fallen victim to crime.
CBS New York has learned that at least five small businesses in the area have been broken into or vandalized in the past week.
Video shows a man stealing the cash register from Hell’s Kitchen dry cleaning company
Police say New Cleaners on West 49th Street was broken into early Monday morning.
Surveillance video shows a masked man breaking into the business, and within seconds he finds the cash drawer and breaks it wide open. Police say he made off with $1,500 in cash.
Store manager Ramon Garcia believes it was a set-up.
‘Someone professional, who wears gloves, and with whom he has broken one lock [a tool]Garcia said.
The map shows a series of crimes being investigated in Hell’s Kitchen
CBS New York
Sometime late Friday evening or early Saturday morning, someone smashed the glass door of Al Horno Mexican on West 47th, as first reported by W42ST.com.
Surveillance footage shows a masked man dropping a tool onto a pile of trash outside the restaurant. He looks around and then returns to smash the glass.
A few nights earlier, across Ninth Avenue at HK Best Barber, more video footage shows someone making very similar movements – again checking to see if anyone is around before smashing the glass door.
Djibril Zakari of Al Horno believes the same person is responsible for both vandalisms.
Also this week, a window was broken at Seguidilla Dominican Bistro on West 51st Street. Employees are grateful that it happened outside office hours, when no one was there.
Totto Ramen across the street was also targeted.
“Someone who does that, breaks all the glass and breaks in across the street, tries to break in around the corner, is not in their right mind. Imagine if there was someone here, one of us. We would be in have been in the area.” danger,” said Cinnamon D. in Seguidilla.
Fortunately, no one was injured in any of these incidents.
Theft and retail theft are the most common crimes reported in Hell’s Kitchen, and NYPD data shows these numbers are increasing, making it more expensive for small businesses to stay in business.
