Manhattan
The suspect pictured above snatched a 69-yearold woman’s necklace in Midtown, authorities said Wednesday.
The victim was on Sixth Avenue near West 47th Street at 12:40 p.m. Monday when the suspect ripped the chain from her neck .
He then fled into the nearby Rockefeller Center subway station.
The balding suspect was described as in his late 40s, 6 feet tall and 160 pounds, police said.
He wore a black jacket, dark jeans and a dark shirt, investigators said.
The suspect pictured here has robbed at least four east Midtown businesses, cops said Wednesday.
At approximately 8:10 a.m. on Oct. 19, he menaced a 44-year-old staffer at the Kips Bay Cleaners on East 34th Street and demanded money, police said.
When she refused, he bashed her on the head with a stapler and stole about $110 from the register, cops said.
The next day at about 8:20 a.m., he pulled a knife on a 36-year-old worker at the Health Source Pharmacy on the same street and fled with an undisclosed sum of cash.
On Oct. 22, he waited for a 25-year-old woman to withdraw money from a Chase Bank ATM on East 23rd Street and then demanded she fork it over. He made off with about $40, cops said.
Most recently, he robbed the Nature’s First Pharmacy on First Avenue, telling a 21-year-old employee he had a knife, police said.
When a customer walked over, he threatened to shoot everyone and then grabbed $200, cops said.
He was described as in his 40s and 5-foot-8, and was wearing a dark longsleeve plaid shirt and a red and blue knit cap.