Hammer-Wielding Man Threatens Worker At Intrepid Museum, Cops Say

HELL'S KITCHEN, NY — The NYPD is trying to identify a man who threatened an employee at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum with a hammer, police said.

On Saturday morning a man entered the gift shop at the museum — located on an aircraft carrier in the Hudson River near West 46th Street — and swiped a sweatshirt and hat belonging to a store employee, police said. After donning the sweatshirt and pulling the hat over his head to disguise his face, the man approached a gift store employee and asked for five dollars, police said.

When the gift store employee denied the request, the man brandished a hammer, police said. Soon after threatening the gift store worker, the man fled the scene empty handed, police said.

The suspect is described as a man in his 20s, police said. Police release surveillance photos of the man (seen above) over the weekend.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

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