Brazen panty snatcher caught on video stealing from NYC apartment building
ByEmily Crane
Published Sep. 26, 2023, 11:44 a.m. ET
A brazen panty snatcher has been caught on camera repeatedly rifling through dryers in an apartment’s laundry room in Manhattan’s upscale Upper East Side — before making off with dozens of pairs of women’s underwear.
The unidentified creep was captured on surveillance cameras targeting the same apartment building on East 64th Street at least twice this month, videos obtained by The Post show.
The disturbing footage showed the perp calmly walking into the laundry room of the building on Sept. 5 before opening one of the running dryers and rummaging through it.

The panty snatcher was filmed rifling through a dryer inside the Upper East Side apartment building on Sept. 5.
He could be seen hand-picking a dozen pairs of panties and stashing them in a black bag before turning his attention to the second dryer.
The sick ordeal was only discovered after a female tenant returned to collect her laundry and noticed that nearly all of her underwear had bizarrely vanished.
“My super at first thought I was crazy, but there are security cameras all over and we looked through the footage,” the woman told The Post, adding that the man doesn’t live in the building.

Surveillance video showed him calmly walking into the building’s laundry room before going through two running dryers.

He could be seen hand-picking a dozen pairs of panties from the first dryer and stashing them in a black bag.
“He didn’t seem threatening, but extremely creepy to only be stealing underwear.”
When the perp suddenly showed up again on Sept. 20, he was immediately spotted by the building’s maintenance man.
Surveillance videos showed the maintenance guy and superintendent waiting to confront the panty snatcher as he emerged from the laundry room — before chasing him from the building.

When the perp returned on Sept. 20, the building’s maintenance guy and super (white shirts) confronted him and chased him out.

Another man tried to prevent the suspect from leaving by repeatedly grabbing at his bag.
Another man walking his dog tried unsuccessfully to grab hold of the perp’s backpack before he fled, the footage shows.
The female tenant said she never filed a police report because she wasn’t sure cops would do anything about it, but building management is weighing putting the laundry room under lock and key.
“I’m hoping this guy doesn’t try another building now,” she said.
Additional reporting by Stephanie Haas