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Police are searching or a pair of thugs who knocked over three people for their cell phones on the East Side.

A 63-year-old career criminal suffered from emphysema and diabetes which hampered him during a Midtown robbery attempt.

First he used a potted plant as a decoy, then a bunch of flowers.

A man with a cane and breathing tubes was caught on tape before allegedly shooting up a Midtown suit store.

Police are seeking a suspect wanted for grabbing chains off the necks of three women in the Chelsea area.

"He had tubes in his nose going into a bag," a saleswoman said of the failed Midtown robber, believed to be in his 60's.

Barnard student Marisa Cortright was knocked unconscious and had her cheekbone broken by a mugger Monday.

The three locations were all within 14 blocks of each other.

The well-dressed robber brandished a gun and a knife in separate June incidents only blocks from each other.

A female thief in feline garb was captured on video at the Arche shoe store in Astor Place.

Commissioner Raymond Kelly said police were not chasing the car that killed a nun, contrary to eyewitness accounts.

William Robbins, 18, and Dyson Williams, 20, were held without bail on Thursday.

Police released a picture of four young suspects wanted in connection with a Central Park mugging.

A man robbed a jewelry store on Thompson Street Wednesday afternoon after asking to view engagement rings.

A homeless man allegedly tried to rob a Chase bank armed with a television remote.