Broadway actors John Cardoza, currently appearing in The Notebook, and Michael Stuhlbarg, who begins previews tonight in Patriots, have become the latest victims in what seems a surge of high-profile crimes in New York City.
Neither actor was seriously injured in the separate Easter Sunday incidents. Cardoza, who plays “Younger Noah” in the musical based on the Nicholas Sparks novel, wrote in an Instagram Story post yesterday that he had been robbed, seemingly at gunpoint, at a Dunkin’ Donuts in the Upper Manhattan neighborhood of Hamilton Heights.
Police later said that the robber had “simulated a firearm.” The investigation in ongoing. “It started out with him just asking for a dollar,” Cardoza wrote. “I offered to buy him lunch because I didn’t have cash on me, and it escalated from there very quickly.” In a second post, the actor wrote, “I really am ok.
I feel I should specify that the reason I felt a need to share is because after the incident, this man made multiple attempts to use my credit card.
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