NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Officials are searching for two men accused of placing a woman in a headlock during a robbery inside an Upper West Side subway station early Monday, authorities said.
According to police, at around 3:45 a.m the 62-year-old victim was standing at the mezzanine area of the 1 train at the 96th Street station when the two men approached her and demanded her phone.
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The suspects who police described to be two men in their 20s pulled the woman by the hair before putting her in a headlock before grabbing her phone and fleeing, authorities said.
The victim refused medical attention, the NYPD said.
An investigation remains ongoing.
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