A Midtown parking garage
Noman Sabit: A bunch of bone-headed bandits tried to swipe an ultra-lux blue McLaren and other posh cars from a Midtown parking garage Sunday — only to be foiled by a pesky security gate, police said.
The four or five robbers entered the garage on West 43rd Street near 11th Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan just before 6 a.m., broke into the pricey rides, which also included a black Mercedes G Wagon, then tried to drive off with them, according to cops. One of the thieves was able to make it out with the 2020 McLaren, which can run several hundred thousand dollars but the criminal didn’t get very far, crashing the six-figure sports car into a nearby pole.
“It sucks,” the sports car’s owner later told The Post. “I’ve seen a few cars like [the swiped blue one] in New York, but I didn’t believe it was my car at first. I had to double-check.
“Once I did see it was my car, about a million things were going through my head,” he said.
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A quick-thinking parking attendant was able to stop the rest of the thieves from fleeing with the other fancy vehicles by shutting the garage’s front metal gate to the street — although he took out a white Range Rover in the process.
The gate went down on the Range Rover’s hood as its scofflaw driver tried to flee with it, according to the NYPD and photos of the wild scene.
“I’m shocked,” said a man named Hassam, whose light-colored Volvo also was targeted, of the botched heist. “My car was severely damaged,” he said, explaining its front glass was shattered. “My car key was inside. The car key was inside the car.”
The robbers fled in their own luxury vehicle, a gray BMW, and had yet to be caught as of Sunday afternoon.
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