Broadway actors John Cardoza, these days showing in The Notebook, and Michael Stuhlbarg, who starts previews this night in Patriots, have develop into the most recent sufferers in what turns out a surge of high-profile crimes in New York City.
Neither actor was once significantly injured within the separate Easter Sunday incidents.
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Cardoza, who performs “Younger Noah” within the musical in accordance with the Nicholas Sparks novel, wrote in an Instagram Story post the day gone by that he were robbed, apparently at gunpoint, at a Dunkin’ Donuts within the Upper Manhattan group of Hamilton Heights.
Police later mentioned that the robber had “simulated a firearm.” The investigation in ongoing.
“It started out with him just asking for a dollar,” Cardoza wrote. “I offered to buy him lunch because I didn’t have cash on me, and it escalated from there very quickly.”
In a 2nd post, the actor wrote, “I really am ok. I feel I should specify that the reason I felt a need to share is because after the incident, this man made multiple attempts to use my credit card. These attempts were in the bodegas and grocery stores and pharmacies along 145th street that we all use every day.”
In a next post, Cardoza thanked individuals who had reached out with excellent needs and worry. “I live in New York and these things sadly happen more often than we think and I didn’t anticipate this going so far beyond my personal story here. I wanted to bring attention to some friends, and to anyone who lives in the area to be careful because it really does sneak up on you and I don’t know where that guy is now. I want people to be well and alert.”
In a separate incident, Stuhlbarg was once struck with a thrown rock in a random assault close to Central Park at the Upper East Side round 8 p.m. Sunday. Stuhlbarg chased the alleged assailant, 27-year-old Xavier Israel, for a number of blocks till police apprehended and arrested the person. He was once charged with attack.
Stuhlbarg, who suffered an abrasion at the again of his neck, declined clinical help.
Cardoza carried out in the day gone by’s matinee of The Notebook following the incident. Stuhlbarg is predicted to accomplish in Patriots‘ first preview this night.
Despite repeated assurances via New York City police officers that main crimes are on a downswing, a raft of high-profile incidents together with subway shovings and an assault in January on two cops in Times Square have given upward push to headlines and rising worry about crime within the town.
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