Woman Groped On Upper East Side Street, Police Say

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The NYPD is trying to identify a man wanted for groping a woman on the Upper East Side, police said.

A 21-year-old woman was walking near East 94th Street and Park Avenue during the early-morning hours of Wednesday, Sept. 5, when she was approached by an unknown man, police said. The man reached underneath the woman's skirt and grabbed her in the groin area, police said.

The attack caused the woman to fall to the ground, police said. The man fled the scene heading east on 94th Street, police said.

The suspect is described as a man who stands about 5-foot-8 or 5-foot-9 who was last seen wearing a blue baseball cap, blue pants and a green shirt, police said. The NYPD released a photo of the man (seen above) taken by a street-facing security camera in the area of the attack.

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

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