NEW YORK COMPUTERS STOLEN The Brooklyn Paper: Game over

Game over

By Harry Cheadle

for The Brooklyn Paper

A video game enthusiast had $7,000 worth of electronic playthings stolen from his Henry Street apartment on Oct. 19 while he was at work.

The 33-year-old gamer left at 9:30 am and returned to his building, near Clark Street, around 7 pm. He was no doubt looking forward to unwinding with his PlayStation 3 and his $1,000 collection of games, but when he got to his door, he discovered that the lock had been pried open. Worse, the thief had pilfered not only the games and the PlayStation 3, but also a handheld gaming system and two iBookcomputers

DUMBO burglars

Offices in DUMBO continue to be victimized by opportunistic thieves who are stealing computers right and left.

There were two incidents last week. In the first case, on the night of Oct. 15, an unknown perp broke into a Washington Street building and took a brand-new laptop. The doors were locked at 5 pm, but when the first employee arrived at 8 am the next morning, a DVD drive and a new laptop had vanished from the room where the office keeps its gadgets.

A total of $1,300 in goods was stolen, and the employee said that the perp likely had a key, since there was no sign of forced entry.

A similar crime occurred only a block away the night of Oct. 18, as three nearly obsolete computers were stolen from a Main Street office building.

The office, located between Front and Water streets, was locked for the night by an employee around 7 pm. When the doors were opened the next morning at 9:45, three computers were missing. The silver lining in this cloud is that all of the stolen machines were over a year old, meaning that their combined value was only $1,470.

There was no sign of forced entry, but surveillance cameras did catch the perp in the act, a large man in a white hooded ski jacket. His face was not visible under the hood, cops said.