Crime & Safety
Man Robbed At Gunpoint In Lobby Of Washington Heights Building: NYPD
A 60-year-old man recently had his watch and $300 in cash taken from him in a building near 188th Street, police said.
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — A man was recently robbed at gunpoint inside the lobby of his building in Washington Heights, police said on Wednesday.
The 60-year-old was standing in a lobby near Audubon Avenue and West 188th Street, when a man approached him with a gun and forcibly took his watch and $300 in cash, police said.
The robber then fled south on Audubon Avenue, police said.
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NYPD released a photo Tuesday of the man wanted in connection to the gunpoint 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).
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