Thugs ambush 58-year-old woman with baseball bats

The victim, 58, was nonchalantly checking her cell phone as she walked down Monroe Street in Two Bridges around 2 p.m. when the would-be muggers — dressed head-to-toe in black — ran up from behind, surveillance footage shows.

 

She backed up against the wall of a nearby store and tried to fend off the brutes — the second of whom repeatedly whacked her with the black baseball bat as his partner kicked her and tried to rip her purse off her arm.

 

The assailants fled empty-handed and the woman was taken to New York Downtown Hospital with bruising on her left leg and swelling on the back of her head, according to police.