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Elderly Proprietor Hurt In Laundromat Robbery While legislation to give a stiffer sentence to someone who assaults the elderly is being discussed in Albany because a 101-year-old woman was mugged last week, a senior citizen in Canarsie was injured last Thursday in an assault during a robbery, police said. The attack took place at about 8 p.m. on March 8, police from the 69th Precinct said, when a man walk-ed into the Clean In Canarsie Laun-dry on Flatlands Avenue near Rem-sen Avenue, pulled a knife from under his jacket and told the 75-year-old female proprietor, who was alone in the store, to go behind the counter and give him all her money. The feisty woman, however, decided she didn't want to give him her money and started fighting with the man, who promptly slashed her on the middle finger. The thief ran behind the counter and grabbed approximately $100 and fled out the front door, running east on Flatlands Avenue on foot. Passersby called police and Emer-gency Medical Service paramedics treated the woman's injury. She refused further treatment and was not taken to the hospital, police said. The attacker was identified as a male black in his 20s, about five-feet, eight-inches tall and weighing about 180 lbs. He was wearing a black hoodie, a dark baseball cap and possibly blue jeans. The new law was proposed in the State Legislature as a result of the mugging of the 101-year-old lady in Queens, Rose Morat, which was seen on surveillance tape. The law would make it a felony to assault anyone older than 70 with the penalty being at least seven years. Currently the crime is a misdemea-nor, punishable by jail time of one year. Anyone with information of the laundromat robbery is asked to call the 69th Precinct Detective Squad at (718) 257-6215 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
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