Missing Wallet Returned To NY Man - 40 Years Later
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A New York man whose wallet disappeared from his jacket pocket has gotten it back -- 40 years later.
LINK: Photos of the wallet from the NY Times
Rudolph Resta -- now 77-year-old -- was working for The New York Times as an art director in 1970 when he left his jacket in a closet at the old Times building in Manhattan just off Times Square. When he went to fetch the jacket, the wallet was gone.
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However, last fall a security guard checking a gap between a wall and an old, unused window came across the wallet. It was apparently tossed there by a thief who'd pulled out the cash -- around $25, according to Resta.
1010 WINS' Sonia Rincon speaks with Rudolph Resta
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Resta was tracked down through pieces of ID linked to the Times and is now enjoying the memories the wallet contained -- photos of his sons as children, his glamorous wife and his late father.
"After 40 years, when I looked at it and I started to cry a little bit because I saw my kids when they were small and now they're in their 40's," he said, "and it was very, very moving," Resta told 1010 WINS' Sonia Rincon.
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