78-Year-Old Man Goes Missing From the Upper West Side: Police

Upper West Side NY

24 January, 2022

7:49 PM

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UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A 78-year-old man has gone missing from his home on the Upper West Side, police say. Suryanarayan "Suri" Hegde was last seen leaving his apartment building at 320 West 83rd Street, between West End and Riverside, on Saturday night around 8 p.m, police say. Before leaving, he told his family that he was going to Zabar's, however, the adjunct professor at NYU has dementia — and can sometimes get confused if he ventures from Broadway, reported the WestSideRag. He has not been seen since. Hegde is described as 5 feet, 5 inches tall, 110 pounds, and last seen wearing a black hat, a black jacket, and dark-color pictures. Police sent out this photo of Hedge in their missing person report. Photo courtesy of the New York Police Department. Anyone with information in regard 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).