![]() ![]() The men moved on, and the teens paused for a reporter’s questions. One shook his head, but the other did not, and wound up shelling out a few dollars. One reached out and playfully grabbed a young woman by the wrist. About five young men walked north from Astor Place and carried CDs in plastic sleeves with faded labels photocopied many times over. “What I’d call a strong-arm or coercive robbery.”Ī visit by a reporter to Broadway on Wednesday showed a thriving CD trade. “It elevated from a quality-of-life-slash-scam kind of activity to a robbery,” Mr. Both reported the incident to the university police, which issued a campuswide email alert this week. What followed was what John Beckman, a spokesman for N.Y.U., called “a laying-on of the hands.” One student was relieved of $35 the other, $2. They quickly found themselves surrounded. CDs and words were exchanged, and the two students declined to pay. On Sunday at 3:10 p.m., CD guys approached two New York University students at Broadway and East 10th Street, just across from the Gothic revival landmark Grace Church. ![]()
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