Man Pulls Knife On UES Store Clerk: Police

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY —A crook stealing items from an Upper East Side store threatened a worker with a knife, police said.

On Wednesday at around 4 p.m., a man was shoving items in his pockets inside a cosmetics store on East 86th Street near Lexington Avenue when a store employee walked up to him, according to officials.

The worker confronted the man over his shoplifting when the man pulled out a knife, police said.

Police said the man then fled from the store on foot in an unknown direction.

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