Police say a man used a chair to break into a home in the Huguenot section Thursday morning.
He tied up a woman who lives there, hit her in the head with a blunt object, and then fled with cash and jewelry.
A neighbor saw the victim run from her home with her hands bound and bleeding from her head.
Fortunately, she was not seriously hurt.
Her neighbors, however, are very shaken up.
"This doesn't happen here, you know what I'm saying? Everybody looks out for each other. We have cops here, we have firemen here, the whole park is full of cops and firemen, these things don't happen, and right on Huguenot Avenue in the middle of the day, that's scary," said Mary Santaromita, a neighbor.
Police believe the victim's home was targeted at random.