A burglar broke into a luxury, high-rise apartment on the Upper West Side and stole a safe containing nearly $400,000 in cash and jewelry early Thursday, cops said.
The crook smashed through the door at 75 West End Ave., breaking the door jamb, and grabbed the safe that contained about $220,000 in cash and $160,000 in baubles around 12:15 a.m. on Thanksgiving, police said.
The burglar also snatched three Goyard pouches worth a total of $6,000 and seven pairs of Louis Vuitton sneakers worth about $7,700, police sources said.
The small, handmade Goyard bags can cost up to $2,000 each.
A friend of the unit’s resident has been staying there for about a month but was out when the break-in happened, police sources said. It wasn’t clear how the burglar got into the 39-floor, door-man building.
Investigators are reviewing security videos, cops said.
Lawyer Anjori Mitra lives in the building and said she was amazed a burglar had gotten past security.
“That’s surprising to me because it’s a safe building,” the 34-year-old said.
“There is security, a team of doormen. A lot of people live and work in the building.”
She’s wary of walking at night in the area and uses a car service.
“Walking down West End Avenue is O.K. but the side street is particularly West 63rd, West 64th and West 65th, I would not walk there late at nights,” she said.
“We are paying a lot of rent for having to take cars home late at night.”
Isaac Saidmehr, 62, said he and his wife were on edge about crime in the neighborhood.
““It’s happening more and more,” he said.
“It’s scary – like my wife tells me these things, she comes home shaken up.”
“I want to see more cops on the streets.”
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