PARK SLOPE — Thieves struck a high-end consignment shop on Fifth Avenue twice in one week and swiped nearly $6,600 in designer handbags, according to police reports.
The first theft happened Jan. 13 just after 3 p.m. A person walked into Eleven Consignment Boutique on the corner of Fifth Avenue and St. Mark's Place and snatched a $2,800 Chanel purse off a display shelf. Witnesses couldn't say whether the person was a man or a woman.
The thief ran out of the store right after grabbing the bag, according to a police report.
On Jan. 16, a male thief hit the shop at about 1:15 p.m. He snatched an $1,100 Louis Vuitton duffel, a $1,500 Stella McCartney bag and an $1,100 Alexander Wang purse. The crook then fled on foot.
Eleven Consignment Boutique started with a shop on the Lower East Side and opened its Park Slope branch in 2013. The store specializes in selling used luxury items in "good to perfect condition," according to its website. The shop guarantees that all of its merchandise is "100 percent authentic," the website says.
The shop's owner did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "We had two robberies this week Park Slope be on the lookout," the shop tweeted on Jan. 19.
Other notable crimes in this week's blotter at the 78th Precinct included the following, with details drawn from police reports:
► A thief stole a pair of headphones right off a woman's head as she was walking on Ninth Street near Third Avenue on Jan. 11 about 6:15 p.m. The woman had just gotten off the B61 bus when a man ran up from behind and grabbed her Beats by Dr. Dre Solo2 headphones and Samsung Galaxy S5 phone.
► A woman had her purse stolen at a Fifth Avenue bar even though she hid it under some jackets. The 31-year-old victim told police she met friends at the Duke of Montrose on Fifth Avenue and Bergen Street on Jan. 14 about 11 p.m. She paid for some drinks, then tucked her bag under a pile of coats. When she went to get her purse later, it was gone. Her stolen credit cards were later used to buy MetroCards. Representatives for the bar could not be reached immediately for comment.
► Two men grabbed about $1,900 in merchandise off the shelves of a Verizon cellphone store at Flatbush Avenue and Park Place on Jan. 16 about 6:30 p.m. The thieves stole two Samsung tablets and a Samsung Galaxy S5 phone. A store representative declined to comment.
► A pickpocket slipped a woman's wallet out of her purse on a crowded subway train on Jan. 15 about 5:40 p.m. The woman, who had initially boarded a 1 train but then transferred, told police she felt something near her hip and assumed it was a fellow passenger reaching for the pole. But when she got off at the Flatbush and Seventh avenues B/Q stop, she realized her purse had been opened and her wallet was gone.
Major crimes in the 78th Precinct have dropped 21 percent in the last two years, according to the latest figures from the NYPD.
