#Brooklyn Heights terrorized by serial flowerpot thief

This crook has green thumbs — and sticky fingers.

Residents in a corner of tony Brooklyn Heights say they are being terrorized by a serial flowerpot thief.

The perennial planter-pilferer appears to have hit at least two stoops in brownstone-lined Willow Place last Friday — but locals say the flower prowler has been active for several months.

“I woke up and all of the planters were gone,” said one victim of the vanishing vegetation, Martin, who had four plants disappear on Friday.

Across the street, a woman said a large, brown glazed flowerpot was snatched from outside her brownstone, also on Friday.

“I just walked out one morning and it was gone,” the woman, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Post on Monday.

Incensed, she put up a sign that read: “Dear coward who stole my pot, my mother gave that pot to me. She’s a social worker, and doesn’t have much, but she works hard and gives what she can. And you just steal. Hope you enjoy the pot, you selfish jerk.”

Her aim was to point out that, “you don’t really know what you’re stealing from somebody, if it’s something personal.”

“And why? What’s the point? It wasn’t worth anything,” she added. “It was a gift from my mom … It was just very petty. Like, why do that?”

Martin, who has lived in the charming micro-neighborhood known as Willowtown since 2013, said he never had any problems until December, when four of his planters vanished.

Then, in January, Tim Hoenig, who lives around the corner, said three planters were swiped from outside his brownstone — and another two greenery receptacles were taken from his next-door-neighbor’s place as well.

“You feel violated and victimized,” he said, “and it’s hard to rationalize why someone would do this.”

Hoenig, 45, said he filed a police report in the hopes of catching “some idiot trying to sell my plants,” which were 10-year-old “never-die” plants.

“They had lived here a long time,” he said of the greenery. “These were living things. They were part of the building.”

Martin also reported Friday’s theft to police, and, as The Post was speaking with him on Monday, an NYPD neighborhood coordination officer came by to take a report and look for surveillance footage.

“You start to question why you’re living here,” he said. “Where you pay more money and more bad stuff happens.”

Some residents are also questioning whether to bother investing in greenery anymore.

Hoenig said he’d considered getting replacement planters for the ones that disappeared, but, after hearing about the more recent thefts, “We’ll have to get chains and anchor them to the wall.”

Mary Ann Palestino, 75, who has lived in the neighborhood for her whole life, said she was thinking of canceling an upcoming plant order over the thefts.

“Your plants are an extension of your home,” she said, “and when someone steals them, it’s really sad.”