Police Seek UWS Broadway Puncher: NYPD

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — An elderly man was punched in the face outside of a fancy Upper West Side grocer in the middle of an August afternoon, according to police.

On Wednesday, Aug. 16, two men were embroiled in an argument outside of the Citarella on Broadway and West 75th Street at about 3:15 p.m., officials said.

Suddenly one of the men slugged the other — a 70-year-old — in the face and split the scene on foot, police said, running west down West 75th Street.

Officials described the man as about five foot 10 inches tall, with long black hair, a beard, multiple tattoos and a backwards baseball cap.

The senior citizen victim managed to seek medical attention on his own and is said to be in stable condition, police said on Friday evening.

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