Robbed in Apartment Building

A 69-year-old woman was robbed in her apartment building when she returned from a grocery store. Police said that March 3 at 6:25 p.m., a mugger followed the woman into her York Avenue and East 82nd Street building. As the man followed her up the stairs, she allowed him to walk past her. At the second floor landing, the mugger turned around and grabbed the woman"s purse, police said. He ran down the staircase with the purse while the strap was still around the woman"s shoulder. She fell down the stairs as a result. The man fled west on East 83rd Street and dropped the purse when a witness yelled at him. The witness picked up the purse and returned it to the woman, cops said, who was standing on her stoop. She was later taken to New York Hospital.