Man Robs UWS Bank After Threatening To Shoot The Teller: Police

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY —Police are looking for a man who successfully robbed a Chase Bank midday Monday on the Upper West Side. It is the second time in the past 22 days that the bank at 2824 Broadway, near West 110th Street, has been robbed.

A man walked into the UWS Chase Bank at around 12:50 p.m., approached the teller, and quickly passed a note demanding money, according to police. The robber also threatened to shoot the employee as he placed his hands inside his sweatshirt pocket, police said.

The teller passed the robber an undetermined amount of money, and the man fled into the 110th Street 1 subway station.

The robbery mirrors what happened in the same Chase Bank on March 30, when a man entered the location at 1 p.m., and passed the bank teller a note demanding money.

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Police did not immediately respond to Patch about whether NYPD suspected the same man for both robberies.

The Monday robbery also comes a few weeks after Derek Graves was arrested in connection to a string of five bank robberies that happened on the Upper West Side and in Harlem during March and April.

In most of those bank robberies, the suspect also passed a note to the bank teller demanding money.

Anyone with information in regard to Monday's incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).