From the context, it seemed as if she was referring to city wildlife, not to muggers and victims.
Although my chosen cane was fashionable and utilitarian, it made me feel weak and vulnerable to muggers and unpaid creditors.
The book presents itself as a Take Back the Night rally for small investors, who are exhorted not to leave Wall Street to muggers and stockbrokers.
He views the use of headphones not as a way of escaping the mundane, but as a way of advertising yourself to muggers.
In addition to muggers and drug dealers, he eventually went after cabdrivers, jaywalkers, hot-dog venders, street artists, museum curators, strippers, and people who were just insufficiently civil — in short, practically everyone in New York.
It ranges from the bawdy verse of A Ramble in St James's Park by the court rake John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, to contemporary US novels like Garth Risk Halberg's City on Fire, whose plot turns on a murder in punk-era Central Park – a time, according to Woody Allen's Annie Hall at least, when even actors performing Shakespeare in the park lived in fear of losing their leotards to muggers.
Bring lots of paper money, because coins can rattle and make you more attractive to muggers.
Lose the old scary instruction manual for New York navigation (Carry a fake wallet to give to the mugger) and replace it with the new, wholesome, happy-face instruction manual (Carry a credit card to buy a subway pass).
I wasn't about to submit to some mugger on the subway.
Gregory Greenberg grew up on the Upper West Side in the 1970s, when kids walked the streets unaccompanied even as they made sure to carry mugging money — $10 bucks to hand over to the mugger — and hid their bus passes in their socks.
