2 Gunpoint Robberies Occur Uptown Within Hours, Police Say

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — A gunman robbed a store and a man on a bike snatched a person's necklace in Washington Heights within hours on Friday, police announced over the weekend.

The first robbery began about 5 a.m. when a man whipped out a gun, demanded cash and refused to pay for food he ordered at Lai Lai deli on Broadway and West 193rd Street, police said.

The man walked out of the store with $100 in cash and $460 worth of merchandise, police added.

Hours later and a mile south, a gunman stole a necklace and pendant from a 32-year-old man near West 181st Street and Audubon Avenue about 1 p.m., police said.

NYPD released a photo of the man wanted in connection to the Upper Manhattan jewelry robbery.

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).