Astoria has been hit with dozens of home burglaries in recent months with suspects using fire escapes to climb in through unlocked windows, police said.
The NYPD recorded 41 such incidents in the 114th Precinct since mid-December, the majority of which took place between 35th and 49th Streets between 30th and 34th Avenues, Deputy Inspector Kevin Maloney said.
The string of break-ins came after dozens more occurred in Forest Hills and Rego Park during the past six months, police said. In those, the burglar also entered through open windows.
In Queens North, which includes Astoria and Forest Hills, the last police statistics show burglary went up more than 25 percent through Feb. 23, even as the number of reported break-ins dropped more than 4 percent citywide during that period. Seven of the incidents took place on 34th Street between 30th and 31st Avenues, Maloney said.
Police believe the burglar or burglars are gaining access to the roofs of residential buildings, then walking down the fire escapes to look for unsecured rear windows. The rooftops of many buildings in the area are connected, allowing the suspects to hit more than one building at a time, police said.
Once inside, the burglars make off with handheld electronics, cash and jewelry, Maloney said.
There's also been a rash of burglaries in Ozone Park.
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I predicted "they will be coming through the windows" and its gonna get worse.
Forward 5-10 years when all the feral illegal immigrant offspring currently in the NYC public schools are unemployed adults out on the take.
As in criminals, gang bangers and drug addicts with no future and nothing to lose. Total 3rd world only worse !!!
Thanks Crappy I'll pass this along.
That's been going on forever.
I'm surprised people don't gave bars on their fire escape windows.
if some dope is willing to spend 2000 a month to live in slop sink closet in asstoria and shcnooklyn,you might as well have a big sign taped on your back saying"rob me,the landlords already do"
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this also has been going on in Sunnyside and Woodside but I see nothing about that posted here --
And if they come in while you are there, guess what, you have no gun to defend yourself! And they KNOW this. If even one of these people got blown away it would stop this... for a day or two at least.
"I'm surprised people don't gave bars on their fire escape windows."
Typical Queens logic.
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Bars on windows is not Queens logic. I lived in the Village (the West - not Whitestone) for 20 years and everyone had a gate on the fire escape window. It has nothing to do with this being Queens - it has to do with roof access.
There are now many, many more poor people than there were in the past. In the 70s it was mostly junkies breaking in - now it's probably people trying to feed their kids. Not that I condone any of it but I think there's a lot more desperation now.
I don't get it. Fixed iron bars are cheaper and more resistant to burglars than gates - and gates could be left open accidentally.
"I don't get it. Fixed iron bars are cheaper and more resistant to burglars than gates - and gates could be left open accidentally."
Fixed iron bars are illeagal on fire escapes.
yeah, that would kinda negate the idea of 'fire escape.'
Fire escape bars very often are gates that swing inward like a door but the lock is inaccessible from the outside or through an open window.
One is supposed to be able to exit the apartment to the fire escape should there be a fire.
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