Arrest Made In Brutal UES Robbery Of 91-Year-Old: Police

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Police have arrested a man following the brutal mugging of a 91-year-old man on the Upper East Side, officials said.

Ditmas Park resident Christian Torres, 45, was arrested on Sunday morning in East Harlem, police announced on Monday.

Torres was charged with attempted robbery in connection to a violent robbery on Feb. 1 that left a 91-year-old with six broken ribs and a spinal hematoma, according to police and reports.

Retired lawyer Hyman Silverglad — a cancer patient with Stage 4 prostate cancer, according to the Daily News — was walking in front of 350 East 86th St. on Thursday about 10:30 a.m. when he was pushed to the ground and punched by a man who tried to take his wallet, police said.

From his hospital bed at Mount Sinai Morningside, Silverglad told the Daily News that despite his extreme frailty due to his illness, his instincts as a "street person who grew up on the streets of New York City" led him to fight back.

Before living on the Upper East Side, Silverglad told the Daily News that he used to live in the East Village.

“I liked the East Village much better, probably much safer, and much more enjoyable," he told the paper. “I like to see women with orange hair, green hair, purple hair.”

While Silverglad won that battle against a man half his age — and safeguarded his wallet — he's not sure if it was worth the fight, he told the tabloid.

“I should have given him the wallet,” Silverglad told the Daily News. “Now I am having to experience this pain.”