Police were searching for two men in connection to an armed robbery on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Sunday morning, authorities said.
Two men allegedly followed a 53-year-old man into his building and robbed him of $3,400 in cash. According to police, the two men rushed inside a building located on West 81st Street at around 6:45 a.m. Once they were in the building, they pulled a gun on the 53-year-old man and demanded his property consisting of two bags containing $3,400 cash, a cellphone and two iPads, according to police.
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Anyone with information in regards 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). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.