Police: Necklace theft on Upper East Side being treated as hate crime

Two men are wanted in a robbery in Manhattan that is being treated as a hate crime.

Police say the pair snuck up behind a man on East 90th Street and Third Avenue on the Upper East Side and snatched his necklace.

The incident happened on Friday, September 13 at about 4:05 a.m.

The robbers snatched the victim's necklace, causing a laceration to the 27-year-old's neck.

The victim says one of the suspects made an anti-Semitic remark before they ran off.

There is no word on the value of the necklace.

Anyone with relevant information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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