Crime & Safety
Bank Robbed On Upper East Side, Police Say
A man robbed the Citibank on East 86th Street Thursday morning after handing a note to a teller demanding cash, police said.
UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A man robbed a bank on a busy Upper East Side street Thursday morning after demanding cash from a teller, police said.
The robbery happened around 9:42 a.m. at the Citibank on East 86th Street between Park and Lexington avenues.
The man passed a note to the teller demanding money, and the teller complied, handing him an unknown amount of cash, an NYPD spokesperson said. He then fled the location.
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Police described the suspect only as a heavyset man wearing a beige coat and a face mask.
Reports of robberies, burglaries and grand larcenies have all decreased on the Upper East Side this year compared to 2020, according to NYPD statistics.
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