NYCs No. 1 recidivist just cant stop stealing even after mind-boggling 134 arrests

A career crook Mayor Adams once dubbed “Recidivist No.1” and the symbol of NYC’s revolving-door justice system is still circling back on crime — his staggering rap sheet is now 134 arrests long, The Post has learned.Harold Gooding landed on the front page of The Post in August 2022 as the person atop the NYPD’s “Worst of the Worst” list of repeat offenders — and he only had 101 arrests at the time.He’s been busted another 33 times in the 33 months since that report, records show.“It’s frustrating .

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for this guy to get out the same day or the next day committing the same crime he’s been doing over and over,” said a Manhattan cop who’s dealt with the 56-year-old serial thief from Brooklyn and the Bronx.Most of the new arrests were for shoplifting from stores in Tribeca, but he’s also been collared for grand larceny and drug possession.His older arrests included armed robbery, grand larceny and burglary, the sources said.He was slowed down a bit in June 2024 after he was arrested on grand larceny charges for shoplifting 11 different times, mostly at a Target store at 255 Greenwich St.

in Tribeca, police sources said.He pled guilty to petit larceny and was sentenced to 364 days in Rikers, police sources said.He was released in February.And like clockwork, he’s been arrested four more times since.The month after he got out of Rikers, he went to the Duane Reade on Broadway in Tribeca on March 28 around 10:30 a.m.

and pilfered 30 bottles of vitamins worth $1,511.18, according to a criminal complaint filed with the Manhattan DA’s Office. A month later, on April 24, he went into the same store and stole cleaning supplies and three pairs of reading glasses, the records show.He was charged with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, two counts of petit larceny, according to the complaint.But in two days he was out again.

The charges weren’t bail eligible.The state’s 2019 no-bail laws essentially made many lower le...