Man robs three women on L train in Brooklyn

Alec Tabak/for New York Daily News An electronics-grabbing straphanger struck twice on the L train at the Graham Ave. station in Brooklyn this month.

The “L” could stand for larceny.

Police are looking for a slippery straphanger who robbed at least three women on the L train in Brooklyn this month.

On June 17 at about 12:15 p.m., he ripped an iPod from the first woman’s hand at the Graham Ave. station in Williamsburg.

David Paul Morris/Bloomberg The man, who has robbed at least three women on the train, made away with two Samsung Galaxy phones. The third robbery was at the Grand St. L station.

The next day, at about 2:05 p.m., the thief struck again at the same station, this time stealing a Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

On June 20, he swiped another Samsung Galaxy smartphone at the Grand St. station in Williamsburg.

Google Maps Two thefts happened on June 18 and 19 at the Graham Ave. L train station at Metropolitan Ave. and Graham Ave. in Brooklyn.

A three-day Daily News expose that appeared earlier this week chronicled subway crimes from 2008 to 2013. Data analysis in “How Safe Is Your Subway?” showed grand larcenies were the most frequent criminal activity on the rails.

During that five-year period, 19 people at the Graham Ave. station and 18 at Grand St. reported thefts. The L train stop with the most rip-offs was in Manhattan: 168 thefts were reported at the Union Square Station, a hub where five other train lines converge.

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