“Notebook” actor John Cardoza told followers that he was robbed at gunpoint in New York City on Sunday at a local Dunkin’ Donuts shop.
The 30-year-old Broadway star was eating at the Harlem shop around 2 p.m. when he said a “middle-aged Black man” approached him asking for a dollar, police and sources told the New York Daily News.
Cardoza, who plays younger Noah in the play, wrote on Instagram that he “offered to buy him lunch because I didn’t have cash on me, and it escalated from there pretty quickly.”
Police said the man, who had his hand in his pocket, told the actor, “I have a gun.”
Cardoza wrote on social media that, “Ultimately, he didn’t make off with anything irreplaceable. It makes me sad to think people are as desperate as this – and it makes me sad to feel a need to alert anyone to this kind of activity.”
Police told the outlet that the man ended up…
