Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst and Transit District 20 are looking for a gunman who allegedly robbed a teenager at the Grand Avenue-Newtown subway station.
The 18-year-old victim was waiting for an R train at around 2 p.m. on Friday, April 10, when a stranger approached him, lifted his sweatshirt to show he had a firearm tucked into his waistband, and demanded the victim’s necklace. The teenager surrendered his necklace, and the armed robber fled the station onto Queens Boulevard at Broadway.
The chain’s value has not been determined, an NYPD spokesman said. The victim was not injured during the encounter.
The NYPD released surveillance video of the suspect passing through the turnstile at the station and described him as having a light complexion in his late teens or early 20s. He was last seen wearing a black bubble winter jacket with a fur-lined hood over a gray hooded sweatshirt, black pants, and a black facemask.
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 April 13, the 110th Precinct has reported 98 robberies so far in 2025, 38 fewer than the 136 reported at the same point last year, a decline of 27.9%, according to the most recent CompStat report.
