Things are finally breaking good for Walter White.
An army of big-hearted New Yorkers are helping the down-on-his-luck 91-year-old Korean War veteran who was robbed at gunpoint inside his Harlem apartment Saturday morning.
A GoFundMe page started Wednesday has received nearly $1,000 in donations and a non-profit veterans group has given the “feisty good soul” $400 and furnished his spartan digs with a platform bed, pillows, kitchen table set, bathroom supplies, cookware and non-perishables such as rice, pastas and peanut butter.
New Yorkers are also sending checks to Paula Miritello, who heads the non-profit, My Brother Vinny, which provides free furniture and housewares to formerly homeless US vets. “Although this is horrific, I feel this is a twisted blessing in disguise,” she said. “We are going to make this a positive and find Walter all the resources that he needs.”
Two thugs, one brandishing a gun, knocked on White’s door at West 145th Street and Edgecombe Avenue at about 8 a.m., and demanded his cell phone and cash, police said.
While one robber stood guard at the door, White handed over his phone and $270 to the gunman, police said.
“It was just one of ’em things,” the nonplussed nonagenarian told The Post in the days after the stick-up. “I opened my door for this guy and come to find I have a .38 in my face.”
White, who served as a sergeant in the Korean War from 1950 to 1955, moved into the apartment Oct. 20 and didn’t even have his furniture yet. He’d been using a duffel bag as his bed.
White, who served as a sergeant in the Korean War from 1950 to 1955. G.N.Miller/NYPostMiritello, unaware of the crime, arrived at the apartment several hours later to find cops and commotion.
“I said, ‘Walter, I’m here with your furniture.’ He said, ‘I was just robbed! I was just robbed!”
The vet — who earned a Purple Heart after being shot in the left hip (the bullet is still lodged there) during combat — told The Post he doesn’t hold any ill will towards the still-at-large gunman. “He needed the money and I gave him what I had,” he said, “I just hope that he do good with the money he got from me.”
Post reader Patricia Hocker was so moved by White’s plight and resilience that she wrote a check to the veterans assistance group. “I’m proud to help him. I would hope many others would be so moved,” Hocker emailed. “So many sad stories, but that NYPOST story really got me. Sending a donation. God bless Mr. White.”
Police described the suspect as wearing a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt, dark-colored pants and white sneakers. The second man was described as wearing a red hooded jacket, gray pants and black shoes.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-8477 or submit a tip at the Crime Stoppers website.






