Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood are searching for a man who allegedly robbed an 88-year-old woman in Maspeth on the afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 7.
The senior was walking near the intersection of Brown Place and 58th Avenue, two blocks south of the Long Island Expressway near Frontera Park, at around 4:45 p.m. when the alleged perpetrator snuck up behind her and forcibly removed her pocketbook, police said Tuesday.
The heartless robber ran off westbound on 58th Avenue toward 66th Street. The 88-year-old victim was not injured during the encounter. Her handbag contained $1,200 in cash, credit cards, and her identification cards, according to an NYPD spokeswoman.
Surveillance images of the suspect aboard an MTA bus were released by the NYPD on Tuesday. He wore a dark-colored winter parka with a fur-lined hood over a black hooded sweatshirt, black pants, black shoes, and a blue bucket hat under the two hoods.
A reward of up to $3,500 is being offered for information that leads to his arrest.
Anyone with information regarding this robbery investigation 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 crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are confidential.
Through Jan. 12, the 104th Precinct has reported three robberies so far in 2025, one fewer than the four robberies reported at the same point last year, a decline of 25%, according to the most recent CompStat report.
