Police Search For Two Missing East Village Women

EAST VILLAGE, NY — Police are searching for two separate East Village women who were each reported missing last week, authorities said over the weekend.

An 80-year-old woman who lives in an East First Street apartment near East Houston Street was last seen on Aug. 11 just after noon, leaving a relative's house in Gravesend, Brooklyn at Avenue U near McDonald Avenue, police said.

Officials describe the woman, Virginia Proto, as five-foot-five, 130 pounds with a light complexion, long red hair and brown eyes. She is believed to have an ID holder around her neck, authorities said.

Police are also searching for 59-year-old Nurys Herrand, whose family reported her missing from her East Ninth Street apartment near Avenue B on Aug. 9th.

Herrand was last seen by relatives in her home at 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 8. She is described as five-foot-three, 185 pounds, wearing a floral-print dress and black flip flops.

Anyone with information in regards to the missing is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

Virginia Proto, 80, is pictured left with an ID holder around her neck. Nurys Herrand, 59, is pictured right and was last seen wearing a floral-print dress and flip flops. (Photos courtesy of NYPD)