Crime & Safety

Duo Beats Up And Robs Man In Wash Heights Train Station: Police

The man was walking alone within the 1 train station at St. Nicholas Avenue and West 191st Steet when he got punched from behind, NYPD said.

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An image of two men wanted in connection to a recent Washington Heights train station robbery.
An image of two men wanted in connection to a recent Washington Heights train station robbery. (Photo courtesy of the New York Police Department)

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — Police are looking for two men who beat up and robbed a man walking alone in a Washington Heights train station on Monday, NYPD announced on Thursday.

The 30-year-old man was walking within the 1 train station at St. Nicholas Avenue and West 191st Steet at 12:08 a.m. when two men sucker-punched him from behind, knocked him to the ground, and stole $100, police said.

The man sustained minor injuries and received treatment at the scene.

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Police released a photo Thursday of the two men wanted in connection to the train station attack.

Photo courtesy of the New York Police Department

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).

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