4:10 PM EST: Kensington, NY – YWN has just learned that there has been a massive burglary over the weekend at the Astoria Savings Bank located on 18th Avenue and East 2nd Street (directly between Flatbush & Boro Park).
Sources tell YWN that upon arriving at the bank on Monday morning, workers discovered that the ‘safety deposit boxes’ belonging to customers had been emptied.
The burglars apparently entered the bank through the roof, and emptied an undetermined amount of safety deposit boxes.
The exact amount of deposit boxes has not yet been confirmed, although various sources tell YWN that 75% of boxes were emptied.
An intense investigation has been launched by the NYPD, detectives are on the scene, and further details will be brought to you as soon as they are available.
(Dov Gordon / YWN-112)
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23 Responses
This will help the economy because all the assets that were in safety in the bank will now be used to buy things which will help STIMULATE the economy of Brklyn
it is time to keep one’s money buried in the back yard or under the mattress
Who is going to admit to the cash they had stashed there.
I think it’s the government looking for money to fund the massive spending.
does the bank have liabilaty to repay thier costemers how much?
Apparently, none of the previous jokesters had money there
where do you get your information from that 75% of the vaults were robbed, when I went into the bank they told me only 3% were robbed?
to #5, the bank has no liability to pay anyone anything. there is special insurance for that, that can be purchased privately by each boxholder.
but for those that keep cash there, its a different story.
No alarm? No video camera? Very strange.
Isn’t it called a safe deposit Box cause it is a safe? Isn’t a safe supposed to be protected from on top also? Very Strange.
Maybe the bank was on the verge of collapse so they needed to help themselves to the customers things?
Shocking story
how do ppl joke about ppl in klal yisroels losses. With all of us being so “frum” in so many areas how are we missing such basics.
– ES WHY
How did the “unsinkable” titanic sink?
Etc etc, things happen.
I don’t know how it works in Brooklyn, but where I grew up, when a large number of safe deposit boxes were robbed, it turned out that some of them belonged to the mafia, who delivered the bodies of the robbers right onto the doorstep for the police, within the month. These guys are not too bright. When a bank is robbed, no individuals with money in the bank get hurt; not so with safe deposit boxes.
To #7. You’re right, the bank is saying only 3% so far. The bank won’t give out any info (names etc.) Even to box owners till 2morrow morning.
It is safer to keep your valuables elsewhere than in a bank safe deposit box. If the box is owned jointly and one person dies, the contents are not accessible until the inheritance is established. This can be problematic.
straight out of the movie !!
60 safe deposit boxes were completely emptied out of about 200 in the bank, no clue how much money that means. however, $300,000 was taken out of the vault. the robbers set up a tent on the roof of the bank and drilled a hole straight into the vault. somehow they disabled the motion sensors and all the security devices. they wore masks and spray painted the cameras. robbery wasnt discovered till this morning by us employees.
Sad! People keep family heirlooms in safe deposit boxes. The elderly keep their personal treasures in such boxes too! There is a UCP building next block and many of the severly handicapped people bank there! So sad! So many broken hearts!
Shame on you pepole (above) for poking fun! Is this type of behavior being mekaarev the geula?
Do teshuva!
Ppl nowadays come into the banks and withdraw their money, then go down to the safe deposit box and stash it away. DID IT HELP????
Sounds exactly like the “bankjob” to me. I always thought these stories happen only in movies.
Are they really such ultra shlomazelich with people’s money?? Where is the security alarms etc etc????
I once had an account by Astoria bank.
frankly, the bank stank, the atm machine looked like it came from Ukraine along with the half-drunk bank manager.
“Sounds exactly like the “bankjob” to me. I always thought these stories happen only in movies.”
I don’t go to movies but I can guess what the “bankjob” was about. According to a 1992 JAMA article by epidomiologist Dr Brandon Centerwall, If we view crime and violence as a diseases and television violence as a cause, 25% of violent crimes are inspired by specific incidents shown on television and movies. With non-specific television violence being causitive in a signifcant percentage of violent crimes. South Africa, which did not have television until 1975, was used as a control and Dr Centerwall’s prediction that violent crime would double within 15 years of the introduction of TV there, were validated.
Please do not tell me that you have watched TV for 40 years and you are a model citizen, so therefore Centerwall is wrong. Big companies pay millions of dollars for a half minute commercial during the superbowl, (Which I don’t watch, nor do I know or care which teams played) They do not pay millions because NBC, or CBS, or whoever carried the game needs charity. They pay the money because that half a minute has an affect on people that is worth more than that millions of dollars. So now convince me, the companies say , and pay, that that half a minute commercial has an affect on the watcher, but the 50 minute violent progaming that contains half minute commercials does not? Even if a person is not affected to the extent that they become an axe wielding murderer, if they become less sensitive to the suffering of others that is also a tragedy.
Centerwall’s article is not available on the JAMA archives which only go back to 1998, but is available elsewhere on the web. It may be available from medline as well.
Centerwall BS. Television and violence. The scale of the problem and where to go from here.
JAMA. 1992 Jun 10;267(22):3059-63.
PMID: 1588720 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
This bank is a big shlemazel. They were warned 2-3 days prior to the break in,that a cctv camera was stolen from the roof of the store next door,and that men were seen lurking on the roof of the bank before the break in. The bank payed no attention to this info,nor did they take any action. They are 100% liable.And when the alarm went off(3 times) no one from the bank or the security co. came to investigate. The robbers had carte blance access the whole time. Nor did NYPD bother to check where and why the alarm went off. they merely looked around from the front of the bank,saw no visible broken glass,or signs of a break in,and simply left. DUH! Maybe the robbers broke thru the roof,or elsewhere DUH!. Theyre just as guilty as the nincompoops at Astoria.