Chilling warning over ‘extremely dangerous’ knife-wielding man roaming NYC rooftops in bid to break into homes

COPS have issued a chilling warning over an “extremely dangerous” knife-wielding man roaming NYC rooftops in a bid to break into homes.

The man was spotted armed with two knives on the roof of a Hell’s Kitchen apartment block on West 48th Street on Sunday.

NextdoorA man has tried to break into a NYC apartment wielding a knife[/caption]

NextdoorThe man is known to have mental health issues[/caption]

Footage obtained by the New York Post shows the moment the same building was broken into by another intruder just 12 hours earlier.

Video of the first attempted break-in has been circulating online.

It shows a slender man in dark clothes with bushy, black hair and a tattoo on his left eyebrow and on both hands on a neighbouring building.

He’s seen wearing headphones and has a knapsack over his left shoulder and brandishes two blades in front of the camera.

“The police know of him and they say he is mentally ill and extremely dangerous,” building resident Loni Goodman posted on Nextdoor.

The knife-wielding man made enough noise trying to break in that he woke up the building manager in his top-floor apartment.

He ran to the roof with his wife but the man had disappeared.

In the second attempted break-in, a man can be seen wearing a ball cap and mask and is carrying a small thin case in his left hand.

He also had a small backpack on him.

Police have launched an investigation into the attempted break-ins.

Burglaries in New York City have risen 38.2 per cent in 2022, from 218 last year to 299 this year so far, according to police data.