{"id":351398,"date":"2026-09-20T00:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351398\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T00:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:22:12","slug":"brazen-gunman-holds-up-smoke-shop-in-tony-nyc-area-in-broad-daylight-flees-with-2k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351398\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazen gunman holds up smoke shop in tony NYC area in broad daylight, flees with $2K"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brazen gunman held up a Manhattan smoke shop in an affluent neighborhood in broad daylight Thursday \u2014 whipping out a gun and making off with $2,000 in plunder, police said.<\/p>\n

The crook walked into Rainbow Smoke Shop in the posh West Village at 378 Sixth Ave. around 2:24 p.m., flashed the weapon, and thrust out a bag while demanding cash from the cashier, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n

\"AnAn unidentified individual, depicted in this New York City Police Department handout, is wanted in connection with a gunpoint robbery at Tashkent Supermarket. NYPD<\/p>\n

After robbing the store, the thief darted out with his two grand and fled into the West 4th Street subway station before heading uptown toward 42nd Street, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Surveillance images released by police Friday show the suspect was last seen wearing a black hoodie, black pants and black sneakers while carrying a brown backpack.<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorAn exterior view of 378 Sixth Ave. in the West Village Google Maps<\/p>\n

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s 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 https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brazen gunman held up a Manhattan smoke shop in an affluent neighborhood in broad daylight Thursday \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,75,57,9,56,63,65,64,58,23317,2380],"class_list":["post-351398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-crime","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news","tag-uzbekistan","tag-west-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}