Shoplifter attacks NYC Trader Joe’s worker with garbage can lid in vacancy-plagued Flatiron
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The thief barged into the chain store’s location on Sixth Avenue near West 22nd Street, in Flatiron near the Chelsea border, around 10:50 a.m. and swooped up unspecified merchandise, police said.