By Gus Saltonstall
An Upper West Side teenage girl has been missing for months, NYPD announced over the weekend.
Juliette Kapon, 16, was last seen walking out of her building at 160 West 72nd Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam, the morning of November 19, 2024, police said.
NYPD describe Kapon as 5 feet, 3 inches tall, 130 pounds, with black hair and glasses. She was last seen wearing a blue jacket, black jeans shorts, and carrying a black backpack, police said.
It appears that Kapon was first identified as missing in a Facebook post on November 29, but the NYPD were not notified until this past weekend.
Anyone with information regarding 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).
Update: Tuesday, March 11 at 7:45 a.m.: Jesse Kapon, who identified himself as Juliette’s father, reached out to the Rag Tuesday morning to say that a missing persons report was filed for his daughter on November 19, 2024.
“I have been actively searching for my daughter since that day,” he wrote to us.
It remains unclear why the police sheet for the missing person went out for the first time over this past week.
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The NYPD was notified as soon as she went missing, back in November.
10 days missing, and only a Facebook post? By whom? 3+months later the cops are notified? About a missing child?? None of this makes sense.
It’s not accurate at all. She was reported missing right away.
This article seems to be incorrect on several levels. It says Juliette’s status as missing was not reported to the police until “this past weekend” (March 8, 9), but following the link to that November 28th facebook post, the post says: “Only people with official Missing Person Reports with police departments are posted…” so there must have been an official Missing Persons Report filed with NYPD at that time: Nov. 28th.
Posters plastered everywhere for hostages thousands of miles away but for a local girl, nothing.
It’s sad but it’s no one’s fault except, honestly, her loved ones for not getting the word out. Many people know about the hostages. No one can put up posters for her if no one knows. Hopefully now people will, starting with her loved ones…
I was the RE Agent/Broker for the family Patriarch in that building since 1993, up until the beginning of COVID. All three of his sons were also my clients over the years, including the father of this poor child. The founding GF passed on just recently, and I can’t even imagine what the family must be going through right now with this added situation. They are hardworking and native UWS people who very possibly read the UWSR, and I would like to request that any judgmental comments here be directed elsewhere, however socially appropriate in general they may be. Thanks, Stefan
I don’t see any judgemental comments. If this story is being publicized on the WSR and FB then I’d assume the family has asked for help locating the missing girl. If we’d known sooner then someone in this neighborhood may have had a better recollection of seeing her that day (or shortly afterward).
I wish I could agree with you, except your very words in response reinforce my reason to bring attention to essentially finding oneself writing along the lines of: “Why did they not do this, or why did they do what they did in the way they did whatever it is, etc…?”. Imho, that is “private coffee table conversation”, rather than an internet conversation board subject in a matter such as this, with local people’s lives and feelings currently at stake. I mean no inference or criticism towards any posters here. I am trying to somehow put myself in the state of mind those directly involved are dealing with, rather than to stimulate opinions otherwise of clearly important general matters in an open forum. Thanks!
in a missing child report there are usually quotes from the guardians or parents or even her friends. the fact that i don’t see them anywhere is odd.
I know the Father well. He is a very quiet and kind man. He’s devastated at the loss of his daughter and has been doing everything possible to find her for months. His Father was the long time owner of Aker Merrill wines.