By Gabriela Resto-Montero
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
SOHO— Two men robbed a West Broadway Currency Exchange Tuesday afternoon on a retail corner busy with holiday shoppers.
Police said the men hit the exchange on the corner of West Broadway and Spring Streets shortly after 4 p.m. and fled with an unknown amount of cash.
It wasn't clear if the men were armed, according to the NYPD.
Carlos Matamoros, who spent the day across the street from the Exchange wearing a billboard for a discount designer store down the block, claimed that he spotted two men casing the store around noon.
About two hours before the robbery, Matamoros said one of the men he was watching entered the Exchange for about ten minutes while the other one stood outside.
Then, the men left the store and continued to circle the block, Matamoros said.
Matamoros said then he saw the men go in and rob the store, and when they left they ambled down the street "like it was nothing," he said.
"It's the first time I've ever seen something like this," Matamoros said. "And in this area, it's filled with rich people."
The Currency Exchange is sandwiched between the Ground Support coffee shop and an eyeglass boutique. Other stores on the block include The Polo Store, Reiss, the Sotheby's Realty office and a Seven For All Mankind Jeans branch.
