VIDEO: Bushwick Thief Breaks Into 'Nooklyn' Offices Via Roof Vent, Steals Fancy Tech Stuff

BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN — A crafty burglar dropped Santa Clause-style into one of the "satellite offices" of tech startup Nooklyn, an app for millennial apartment-hunting and roommate-matching, in the industrial wasteland of northern Bushwick last Thursday morning around 2:15 a.m., according to the NYPD and the company's CEO, Harley Courts.

In order to gain entry, police said, the man had to fashion "a hole in a vent on the roof" at 218 Randolph St.

Once he had wriggled through the hole and tumbled into the warehouse-turned-office space, the thief filled a cardboard box full of fancy Apple computer parts and some Jolly Ranchers, Courts said — then made off into the darkness, through the door this time.

The whole thing was caught on high-res security cameras, of course. Police released the footage to the media Tuesday, in hopes someone would recognize the man behind the heist.

(If that someone is you, call 1-800-577-TIPS to rat this guy out.)

"I was in San Francisco," Courts remembered. "But one of our employees came to the office and there was a screen missing... a monitor, and a computer, and some candy."

The candy was meant to fill goody bags that Nooklyn hands out to its renters when they find a match, Courts said. The goody bags also contain vegan popcorn, he said, but the roof burglar did not appear interested in throwing any of that into his loot box.

Courts said he'd had no idea the rooftop at 218 Randolph was so easily penetrable.

"We're installing further security measures... just doubling down," the startup CEO said.

Nooklyn's product is billed as "thoughtfully designed technology for searching apartments, roommates and neighborhoods." The company has really taken off in the last year, ever since it debuted its app — part Tinder, part Airbnb, part Instagram, part Padmapper.

And 218 Randolph, Courts said, is where the bulk of the company's software is being engineered.

Bushwick's night burglar won't get too far if he tries to tinker with Nooklyn's software, though. "It's all remote access," Courts said.

"We're just very annoyed," he said.