Woman Robs Man At Knifepoint For His Debit Card, Police Say

LOWER EAST SIDE, NY — A woman robbed a man at knifepoint of his debit cart on the Lower East Side over the weekend, according to the NYPD.

The man, 51, was inside an apartment with a woman he had met that day when she pulled out a knife, demanding his debit card and pin number just before noon on Nov. 8, the NYPD said in a release.

Police said she went to Flushing Bank on Canal Street near Mott Street and stole $2,000 with the card. No one was injured, the NYPD said.

The knife-wielding woman robbed the man at 227 Cherry St., the below market rate building from Extell Development, near One Manhattan Square on the Lower East Side.

Earlier this year at the same building, an officer shot and killed a knifeman for plunging an 11-inch knife into his partner, badly injuring the victim, sparking frustrations from a tenant association at a nearby building about security issues at the building.

Anyone with information in regard to the identity of this female is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). All calls are strictly confidential.