SILVER ALERT: Park Slope Senior With Dementia Reported Missing

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Lidiya Piddubna, an elderly Park Slope resident reported to be suffering from dementia, went missing Sunday evening from her apartment at 555 10th St., near 7th Avenue, according to police.

“She’s gone missing on several occasions,” an NYPD spokesman told Patch.

Piddubna, 75, was last seen at her apartment around 6 p.m., police said. The NYPD issued a “silver alert” for the missing woman a little over seven hours later.

Cops have described Piddubna as a white female with blue eyes and white hair, standing around 5-feet-3-inches tall and weighing approximately 160 pounds. She was last seen wearing “a bright blue vest, gray shirt, black pants and black shoes,” according to the NYPD.

Anyone with information on Piddubna’s whereabouts is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS. For Spanish, tipsters can call 1-888-57-PISTA.

Tips can also be submitted online or by texting 274637, then entering TIP577.