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Cab Driver Carjacked by Gunpoint on Upper West Side

By DNAinfo Staff on December 5, 2010 5:09pm  | Updated on December 6, 2010 6:06am

Police appeared to be dusting  the gold Lincoln Town Car for finger prints early Sunday morning.
Police appeared to be dusting the gold Lincoln Town Car for finger prints early Sunday morning.
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David Torres

By Olivia Scheck

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — A livery cab driver was car jacked and robbed at gunpoint on the Upper West Side early Sunday morning, according to police.

The 38-year-old driver told police he’d picked up two men on 125th Street and Park Avenue and driven them to 315 West 90th Street. But when it came time for them to pay, the men instead pulled out weapons and demanded cash, police said.

The driver managed to escape from the vehicle, a gold Lincoln Town Car, following a minor scuffle during which he sustained a cut on his finger, the NYPD said. The two men, one wielding a knife and the other a gun, drove off with the money, according to police.

The NYPD said it received a call from the stranded cabbie around 12:20 a.m.

His car was recovered later that morning, parked in front of a fire hydrant on West 107th Street near Riverside Drive, police told DNAinfo. Detectives appeared to be dusting the vehicle for finger prints around 5 a.m.

The robbery occurred just two days after a Queens livery cab driver was shot in the neck by a passenger.

No arrests in either robbery had been made as of Sunday evening.