Thieves broke into a Chanel store on the Upper East Side on Sunday stealing handbags and damaging a window on the store’s front, according to the NYPD. Two people used a sledgehammer to break a window and took three purses before getting away,

Two sledgehammer-wielding men smashed their way into the Chanel store on Madison at 64th Street at around 7pm on Sunday and stole the designer purses valued at $10,000 each. The suspects then allegedly fled on foot.

Police are searching for two sledgehammer-wielding men who broke into an Upper East Side Chanel store and stole tens of thousands of dollars in expensive bags on Sunday evening.

Two sledgehammer-wielding men smashed the window of the Chanel store on the Upper East Side to steal thousands of dollars in purses.The purses, each worth around $10,000, were taken when the suspects broke through the front window of the store on Madison at 64th Street at around 7 p.