Man With Alzheimer's Goes Missing On Upper West Side, Police Say

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A man suffering from Alzheimer's disease has gone missing on the Upper West Side, police sources said.

Richard Mitchell, 71, was last seen early Monday morning at a condominium building on Central Park West near West 97th Street, police said. Mitchell lives in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, police said.

Mitchell (pictured above) is described as standing 5-foot-8, weighing about 180 pounds and was last seen wearing a white sweater, gray pants, blue shirt and black sneakers.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

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