EAST HARLEM — He was only gone for five minutes.
An Uber car service driver who left the keys to his Honda SUV in the ignition while ducking into a restaurant for coffee came out to find the car had been stolen, according to the NYPD.
The 24-year-old driver, whose name was not released, stopped by the New Ivoire Restaurant on West 119th Street and Park Avenue around 5:45 a.m. February 16, police said. When he came out, the 2013 Honda Venza was gone.
The driver's Uber phone and Taxi and Limousine Commission license were inside the $51,000 car, police said.
An employee at the restaurant declined to comment.
Other recent crimes in the 25th Precinct:
► An EMT had his city-issued electronic tablet stolen while treating a heart attack patient at Ward Island’s homeless shelter, police said.
An ambulance responded to the scene at 8:45 p.m. on February 19. The first responder left the $3,500 tablet, which is used to store medical data and access records, on a stretcher to move the patient into the ambulance, police said.
After he finished treating the patient, he noticed the tablet was missing, he said.
► A man stole a $600 electric guitar from the basement of a laundromat.
The man, who police described as standing 5-foot-8 with a slim build, snuck into the Sunrise Laundromat on 215 East 116th Street about 6:50 a.m. of February 16, police said.
When he left the store he had the Fender guitar strapped on his back and was carrying a black duffel bag and a blue case.
Employees also noticed $340 of electric cables missing, police said.