Something strange appears to be happening at a New York City apartment building and authorities want answers. Two boys have reportedly disappeared from the same building in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in less than a month. One of the children was found alive, but the other remains missing. Where is Andrew Ahtay?
I Love the Upper West Side reported that 11-year-old Ibrahim Abdul-Halim disappeared from the New York City Housing Authority’s Amsterdam Houses just before 6 p.m. on June 5, 2025. A month earlier, 16-year-old Andrew Ahtay left the same building and was later reported missing. Andrew has a history of disappearing, but it seems this was a first for Ibrahim.
Ibrahim left home just before 6 p.m. wearing a gray long-sleeved shirt, grey checkered pants, and colorful sneakers, per I Love the Upper West Side. The New York City Police Department issued an alert for Ibrahim, asking anyone in the neighborhood to look out for the young boy. According to the website, the NYPD announced it located Ibrahim alive four days after his disappearance on June 9.
Andrew still has not returned home. According to People, this marks Andrew’s third disappearance in the last five years. Patch reported that Andrew first disappeared at age 10 in January 2020. The Bronx Daily reported that Andrew left his home again a few months later in September 2020, after turning 11.
“This disturbs my spirit in a mighty way because the perp is right there in building, quite possibly beloved and trusted yet diabolical,” Robert Snell commented on Facebook.
“With all these cameras all over NYC & most NYCHA buildings have police around them, what taking them so long to find out What’s going on,” Claudia Lambert Cooper questioned in the comments of an I Love the Upper West Side post.
“Check the building, ppl are evil probably there’s a secret dungeon in the basement,” Wilfredo Lopez suggested in a comment on the same post.
Anyone with information about Andrew Ahtay should call NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). Crime Stoppers accepts confidential tips on its website or by sending a direct message to @NYPDTips on X.
