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By Noah Hurowitz
Brooklyn Daily
78th Precinct
Park Slope
Fight fright
A woman fought off a mugger at the Seventh Avenue F and G train station on Oct. 2, cops said.
The 21-year-old victim was walking down the stairs to the platform at the station at 7 pm when a lout in jogging clothes ran up, grabbed her, and reached for her cellphone and wallet, a report says.
The woman wasn’t going to give her stuff up quietly, though. She beat back the man and he ran off down the Coney-Island-bound F tracks, police reported.
Injury to insult
A bandit rolled a homeless man on Fourth Avenue on Sept. 29, cops said.
The victim said he was drinking a beer between 12th and 13th streets at around 5 am when the fiend came up to him and asked for the time, then clocked him in the face.
The thief took off running with the man’s bookbag, which contained a cellphone and $25 in cash, cops said. Responders transported the 51-year-old victim to Lutheran Medical Center, where he was treated for lacerations to his face, according to a report.
Window shopping
A burglar slipped in the front window of a Park Slope home on the night of Sept. 29, while the owner slept, and made off with valuables, according to officers.
The victim went to sleep in his home, on Saint Marks Avenue between Fifth and Sixth avenues, at 11 pm with the front window open, police related. When he woke at 7:30 am the next day, his Android phone, wallet, and iPad — worth an estimated $1,255 — were gone, cops reported.
Corolla coaster
An antisocial auto-phile drove off in somebody else’s 2009 Toyota Corolla on President Street in Park Slope on Sept. 29, according to a report.
The car’s owner said he had parked the sedan between Eighth Avenue and Prospect Park West around 7:30 pm on Sept. 29, and when he returned at 10 pm, it had vanished.
The buggy, worth $9,000, also contained $300 in the glove compartment, a report states.
Bling’s the thing
A heartless bandit pocketed a woman’s engagement ring in a Park Slope burglary on Oct. 3, cops said.
The ne’er-do-well entered the home on Garfield Place between Fifth and Sixth avenues by jimmying the lock on the front door sometime between midnight and 8 am, as the victim slept, according to a police report.
Once inside, the burglar swiped the $17,000 engagement ring, two iPhones, two iPads, and a Samsung laptop, items worth $22,000 altogether, cops said.
— Noah Hurowitz