CENTRAL HARLEM — A man exposed himself to a woman on the street before grabbing her in an attempt to pull her in closer, police said.
The 44-year-old victim was walking near West 116th Street on May 1 around 4:40 p.m. when the suspect came up to her, exposed his genitals and then grabbed her shoulder to pull her toward him, police said. Authorities did not provide an exact location or a cross street.
The suspect immediately fled eastbound, police said.
The suspect was described as standing 5-foot-8, weighing about 150 pounds, with blue eyes and wavy brown hair. He was last seen wearing dark pants, sneakers and a white T-shirt.
The incident comes after a pair of sexual assaults and robberies on Harlem streets in recent weeks for which police are seeking a person of interest.
Last week, a 31-year-old German tourist was groped, robbed and brutally beaten when she tried to stop a mugger from taking her bag while walking to her Airbnb rental in Central Harlem, police said.
In another attack a week earlier, the suspect pretended he had a gun and took a 35-year-old woman's purse before repeatedly punching her in the face and sticking his hand down her pants in West Harlem, police said.
Investigators have since identified sex offender Keon Robinson, 28, as a person of interest, police said.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). T
