A cell phone robbery and a daytime stabbing are what cops at the 52nd Precinct are tackling and in need of the public’s help. 

Police say a 45-year-old woman was robbed of her Samsung Note 8 cellphone at the East 205th Street D station while waiting for D train in Norwood on Sept 23, at 5:30 a.m. 

The victim was using her phone on a bench when a man she didn’t know approached and forcibly tried to strip the device from her. After the two briefly struggled, the robber took the phone and ran off heading towards the exit on East 206th Street and Bainbridge Avenue.

According to authorities, the suspect is described as a black, approximately 20-years-old, 5’11” tall, 185 pounds, with a medium complexion. He was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, black pants, and wearing a black backpack. 

Three days later on Sept 26, a robbery and assault was reported to police just before 10 a.m., this time in Kingsbridge Heights. There, a 39-year-old victim was asked for money by a man at the corner of East Kingsbridge Road and Grand Concourse, police said. After the victim refused and walked away, the individual stabbed the man in the back. The victim was transported to Saint Barnabas Hospital once paramedics arrived, where he was declared to be in stable condition.

The suspect is described as a black male sporting a dark-haired ponytail and a beard.

“Apple’s killing us. We have a petition against Apple to shut down,” Inspector Peter Fiorillo of the 52nd Precinct, jokingly said at the last 52nd Precinct Community Council meeting Sept. 27. “Crime would go away almost 100 percent.”

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, on Twitter @NYPDTips or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.