Police were looking for a man who sought to remove more than 750 pieces from the Downtown Brooklyn store, according to the NYPD.

A burglar nearly got away with $1.5 million in jewelry from the Macy’s store in Downtown Brooklyn—but he was stopped during his escape by a shrewd employee, police said Wednesday.

Authorities are investigating the attempted theft of more than $1.5 million in jewelry from a Macy’s in downtown Brooklyn. According to police, someone got into the department store on Fulton Street after 10 p.

Sporting a reflective work vest, a Nike ski cap, and a surgical mask, the man entered the Fulton St. department store at about 9:15 p.m. Monday, cops said.

Detectives are on the hunt for the daring masked thief who almost got away with more than a million dollars in jewelry stolen from a soon-to-be closed Macy’s