Someone smashed into a display window at a trendy Herald Square store Sunday and made off with the mannequins’ clothes, leaving one plastic dummy on the sidewalk — and some tourists thinking they were stumbling on an actual dead body.
“I took an early walk with my mom, and we saw this broken window with all these police around, and we got all excited because you’ve got the NYPD investigating a break-in on one side of the street, and you’ve got the Empire State Building on the other side of the street, and how New York is that?” said Houston tourist Jennie Barios near the burglarized Superdry at 21 W. 34th St. across from Macy’s flagship store in Manhattan.
“Then my mom was like, ‘Holy s–t, there’s a body on the sidewalk!’ And I had to calm her down, I was like, ‘Mom, it’s just a mannequin.’ ”
A store worker said that whoever committed the crime probably got away with between $1,000 and $2,000 worth of clothing because the four mannequins displayed in the window were so heavily dressed in winter garb.
“Someone broke in and stole all the clothes off the mannequins — just the mannequins,” said the male store employee, who asked to remain anonymous because he wasn’t authorized to talk about the 5:51 a.m. incident.
The window was smashed at 5:51 a.m. G.N. Miller
“They broke the window into the store, but they couldn’t get inside, just into the window display,” he said. “So they just took the stuff off the mannequins and ran.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God. Someone must have been late getting Christmas presents.’ Pretty desperate.”
The worker said he was informed of the theft in a work group chat when he woke up.
Photos show shattered glass strewn across the sidewalk in front of the smashed-in window and the mannequin sprawled like a crime victim next to it.
It was not immediately clear if anything had been stolen from the window display. G.N. MillerCops can be seen in one snapshot up-righting the mannequin, which was wearing a plaid skirt, yoke sweater, coat and sneakers.
Police said they are investigating the incident.
