Crime & Safety

Woman, 56, Reported Missing On Upper West Side, Police Say

The Upper West Side resident was last seen leaving her West 107th Street apartment around 8:45 Tuesday morning.

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — The NYPD is asking the public to help locate a woman who was reported missing on the Upper West Side, police told Patch.

Yuchen Chao, 56, was last seen Tuesday leaving her Upper West Side apartment, police told Patch. Chao left her apartment, which is located on West 107th Street near West End Avenue, around 8:45 a.m., police said.

Chao (pictured above) is described as a woman standing about 6-foot-1 and weighing about 125 pounds, police told Patch. She was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and brown khaki pants.

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

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