A gutsy 87-year-old man fought off a brazen pair who tried to rip off his $48,000 Rolex outside a Gramercy Park senior center he was attending with his wife, according to cops and the victims.

Larry Schwartz, 87, and Joanna Cuccia, 89, were approaching the Stein Senior Center on East 23rd Street near Third Avenue – a short distance from their apartment – around 11 a.m. Wednesday when the male suspect held the door open and asked Cuccia for directions to a Walmart, he said.

“I said, ‘There are no Walmarts in New York City,’ and then he said, ‘Oh, tell my wife, tell my wife,’” Cuccia said. 3

The stranger, believed to be in his 40s, led Cuccia outside to the curb where a woman sat in the back seat of the passenger side of a gray SUV.

Once Cuccia met the supposed wife – who appeare

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