Carjacking on the Museum Mile; Senior Attacked at Supermarket

From the confines of the 19th Precinct comes a report of a broad-daylight carjacking and robbery.

On Friday, March 7, at approximately 2:48 p.m., in the vicinity of Fifth Avenue and East 80th Street, two unidentified individuals approached a 58-year-old male victim while he was sitting in the driver’s seat of his parked vehicle.

This address is adjacent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the west side, while the east side of fifth features large co-op buildings on each corner, as well as the American Irish Historical Society building at 991 Fifth Ave.

The unidentified individuals proceeded to enter the vehicle, assault the victim, and forcefully remove him from the car. The two men then fled the location in the vehicle, which was discovered unoccupied in the vicinity of East 114th Street and First Avenue in East Harlem.

On the east side of this intersection is Jefferson Park; on the west, the Jefferson Houses NYCHA projects.

Surveillance photos released by NYPD show two men, one lighter-skinned and unmasked, the other darker with a mask, standing on an undisclosed sidewalk.

The lighter-skinned man, likely in his 20s or 30s, is wearing white sneakers with untied laces; red sweatpants, and a red hoodie with a black winter jacket and a black balaclava with his face exposed.

This same man appears to be opening a can of Fanta soda with the fingers on his right hand.

The darker man is seen in closeup talking into a smartphone while wearing a black winter coat with a fur-fringed hood and heavy black face mask, while behind him, his suspected accomplice gets ready to pop that soda tab.

Monster Attacks Senior Citizen at Morton Williams

Also in the 19th Precinct, it was reported to police that on Sunday, March 23, at approximately 1:25 p.m. inside the Morton Williams grocery store at 1066 Third Ave., an 86-year-old female victim was approached by an unidentified male who pushed her from behind, causing her to fall to the ground. The attacker fled on foot, traveling southbound on Third Avenue to “parts unknown.”

The victim sustained injuries to her left eye and back, and multiple teeth were broken. The victim was transported by EMS to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in stable condition.

The violent suspect is described as a male with a dark complexion. He was last seen wearing a gray-and-burgundy jacket, a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt, gray sweatpants, and gray shoes.

Anyone with information regarding these incidents 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 at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.