UPDATE: Thursday, February 26 at 8:15 a.m.: Majorie Cleonese-Laporte, 94, has been found alive, police said on Wednesday.
Cleonese-Laporte had gone missing on January 8 from her building at 315 West 94th Street, NYPD had said in a previous release.
A police spokesperson said she is now in a nursing residence, but did not provide information on where she was found or what happened.
By Gus Saltonstall
A 94-year-old Upper West Side woman has been missing for more than a month, NYPD announced Tuesday in a call for help from the public.
Majorie Cleonese-Laporte was last seen on January 8, around 4 p.m., leaving her building at 315 West 94th Street, between West End and Riverside Drive, police said.
She is five feet, four inches tall, 110 pounds, and was last seen wearing a beige trench coat and pushing a shopping cart, police said.
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).
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This is very sad and concerning. She didn’t have any caregivers, relatives?
It takes a *month* for the NYPD to alert the public about this woman’s disappearance? The thought of a 94-year-old woman wandering around in the recent cold snap makes my heart hurt.
Maybe, or maybe no one alerted the police until now
possibly but highly unlikely
No the police would have known a month ago when it happened. They’re now just asking for help from the public.
Remember last year when a teen girl went missing from the UWS and friends of her family were very unhappy about us discussing it here, but they don’t seem to realize if the same people are on 72nd street every day, we might have passed her, been at the same bus stop with her, or spoken to her at any time for any reason. As it turned out I think she had been seen on social media with friends in school and also in another state.
I think if the public was notified immediately when things like this happen there would be eyes on the street, followed by sightings and photos and hopefully someone will see this woman and offer her assistance. She seems to be of average height and wearing beige so she may not stand out so much, so it would be helpful to post more info about her. Where she might go, whether or not she has friends that she might be with, etc. It’s so distressing.
I was once in McDonalds on Broadway and one of the customers clearly had no idea who he was or what he was doing there. People were offering to help and the police were called and it after a lot of questioning it turned out he lived in a building on WEA, not far from McDonalds.
Please keep us updated with any new info!
It is not always advantageous. Alerting the public also alerts the runaway to take off farther, or alerts a kidnapper to move the victim farther away, or alerts the perpetrator to take off, too. Trust me, the Detectives know more about this than you do.
Why has the NYPD taken so long to announce this, Savannah Guthrie’s mother has been missing for almost as long and we cannot get away from news coverage – this is outrageous.
Agreed! There were at least 4 women found in snowbanks in the NYC area. If I wandered off at that age I would hope that someone was looking for me.
so true, the wall to wall coverage is only because the corrupt media loves a story that involves a celebrity, one of their own.
sad, that is a very deceiving block, very sketchy types live in the shelters and nycha housing
As did she.
Missing for a MONTH, and NYPD or someone else didn’t bother to place bulletins online; flyers in shops, laundries, and groceries; on utility poles, bus stops; TV news? (Maybe I missed that.) Maybe no one noticed she was missing, which is very sad. WSR, please provide some follow-up information if you can.
I saw this woman on the subway this morning (2/19). When I called the tip line they said she had already been reported as FOUND. They told me she is now living in a nursing home – not on West 94th.
I hope they are right. Can WSR follow up?
I spoke with the police department. They checked their missing persons system while I was on the phone with them and then told me she had been located. And that she lives in a nursing home on [street I’m not going to post here]. Not sure why you wouldn’t think the police department would be “right” when they told me she was found. *
If you mean can WSR follow up on whether she lives in a nursing home now, that seems a bit of an overreach for a blog. I’m not sure why that’s relevant. The most important thing is that she’s been found, no?
*At any rate, I gave them the subway car number and described where she was sitting and what she was wearing so they could follow up if they needed to.