By JOHN DOYLE and LARRY CELONA
Posted: 3:53 am
September 1, 2008
As the economy sours, more New Yorkers are making bank withdrawals - at gunpoint.
Bank heists are up nearly 57 percent in the five boroughs this year.
"There are a lot more desperate people," said a law-enforcement source.
"People who are financially strapped are doing bank robberies."
There have been 263 bank heists in the Big Apple this year, compared with 168 in the same period last year, sources said. That's an increase of 56.5 percent.
And FBI data suggest that the rate has accelerated over the summer.
