Uptown Super Pepper-Sprayed During Robbery, Police Say

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — The NYPD is trying to identify two men wanted for attacking a superintendent while robbing a Washington Heights building, police said.

The suspects broke into a building on West 159 Street and Amsterdam Avenue on Friday night by entering through an unlocked lobby door, police said. Once inside the building, the men entered a storage room and swiped boxes of commercial garbage bags, police said.

When a building superintendent approached the men to stop them, one pulled out a can of pepper spray and sprayed the worker in the face, police said. The super was treated at the scene and did not have to go to the hospital, police said.

Police described the suspects as two men, one standing about 5-foot-7 and the other about 6-foot-1. The NYPD released photos of the men (seen above) that were taken by security cameras at the scene of the break-in.

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