A man using a FedEx shirt as a disguise to get into an apartment building to steal packages got a surprise when the real delivery driver faced him outside on a Manhattan sidewalk, police said.

The NYPD released surveillance video Friday of a daring robbery in Washington Heights on May 9. Police said the alleged package thief, disguised as a FedEx worker with the company's logo emblazoned on the arm was confronted by a real delivery driver as he was coming out of an apartment building.

The fake delivery man walked out of the building on West 159th Street with a large box under his arm, briefly teetering on his bike as he tries to pedal it away, the surveillance video appears to show. The real delivery driver confronted the fake FedEx employee and when he tried to get the box back, police said the man on the bicycle pulled out what looked like a knife and threatened to stab him.

The man on the bike then took the package back and rode off on his bicycle going north on Amsterdam Avenue, police said.