Crime & Safety

14-Year-Old Girl From Queens Goes Missing on Upper West Side: Police

The Queens teenager was last seen at an Upper West Side subway station.

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Police are looking for a 14-year-old girl from Queens who was reported missing after being seen on the Upper West Side.

Jewel Codrington was last seen at the 86th Street subway station around 9 p.m. Tuesday night, police told Patch. Police describe Codrington (pictured above) as 5 feet tall and weighing around 140 pounds with a medium build and black curly hair. Codrington was wearing blue jeans, a blue hoodie and white sneakers when she went missing, police said.

Codrington lives on Beach 15th Street in the Far Rockaway section of Queens, police said.

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Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or 1-888-57-PISTA (74782) for Spanish. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and entering TIP577. All tips are confidential.

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