Friday, November 16, 2012

Report: Percy's Tavern owner robbed at gunpoint

Larry Watson, an East Village resident and the owner of Percy's Tavern on Avenue A and and East 13th Street, was robbed at gunpoint last Monday night.

According to an article in this week's issue of Town & Village, Watson had just returned from a food-and-clothing drive in the Rockaways. While walking into his building on A and East 12th Street, a car pulled up ... and two men approached him. One man reportedly pointed a gun at his stomach while the second man took his iPhone, $120 in cash and his keys.

Watson admitted to executive editor Sabina Mollot that he had let his guard down for a moment ... exhausted after a day of unloading truckloads of donated supplies in the Rockaways.

According to the article, which hasn't been posted online, Watson "hoped his story could serve as a warning to neighbors in the East Village and Stuy Town. Like most others — even those guilty of doing it — he complained that people are too busy playing with their cell phones to pay attention to their surroundings."

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 16, 2012 at 10:38 AM

    That's scary. I hope a local security camera caught the license plate.

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  2. i.reneNovember 16, 2012 at 1:23 PM

    :( I'm relatively new to this area. The day after the hurricane, I walked by Percy's and saw him unloading generators, which he later let locals use to charge his phones. I thought that was incredibly gracious.

    I hope the crooks get served justice and/or karma!

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  3. AnonymousNovember 16, 2012 at 11:39 PM

    I've seen some real shady characters around the neighborhood late night and heard a girl screaming after what I assume was her being robbed at the corner of 12th and B. The cops need to step it up around here.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 17, 2012 at 1:28 AM

    Percy's is a great editon to the neighborhood it good to have a family run local!!

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