NY SYLVIA ALICE LWOWSKI: Missing from Staten Island, NY - 6 Sep 1975 - Age 22

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Sylvia Alice Lwowski

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On September 6, 1975, Sylvia went out with her fiance to a movie. He returned stating that during an argument, she threw her glasses against the dashboard and ran from the car. Sylvia has not been seen since.

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SYLVIA ALICE LWOWSKI has been missing from Staten Island, NY since 6 Sep 1975, following an argument with her fiance.

On September 6, 1975, Sylvia went out with her fiance to a movie. He returned stating that during an argument, she threw her glasses against the dashboard and ran from the car. Sylvia has not been seen since.

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Vanished: 40 years later, mystery still surrounds woman's disappearance

The lone surviving relative of a Staten Island woman who disappeared in 1975 fears he may never get the closure he desperately seeks.

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Vanished: 40 years later, mystery still surrounds woman's disappearance​

The lone surviving relative of a Great Kills woman who mysteriously disappeared 40 years ago fears he may never get the closure he desperately seeks.

"I would like a resolution before I die," said Joseph Lwowski, who now lives in Long Island. "But it doesn't appear I'll find any resolution after all these years."

Lwowski, 56, was just a teenager when his big sister, Sylvia Alice Lwowski, 22, vanished.

On the evening of Sept. 6, 1975, she left her home with her fiance and headed to the old Island Movie Theater on Richmond Avenue, near the Staten Island Mall.

The Wagner College graduate was never seen again.

Her brother says the fiance told the family the couple got into an argument before Sylvia threw her glasses at the dashboard and bolted out of the car.

Lwowski says he remembers he was sitting in his room that fateful night when his sister's boyfriend came to the house to tell them what happened.

But he didn't believe what he had heard.

"She wouldn't just run off," he said. "She would've called or reached out to us."

The family searched for her on Richmond Avenue near the bus stops, and Sylvia's best friend searched her former sorority house at Wagner the following day to no avail.

They even hired private investigators and circulated Sylvia's profile on various missing person sites, but couldn't get any leads.

The saga ripped his family apart and his parents passed away heartbroken, he said.

Lwowski has spent almost his entire life and $60,000 trying to find Sylvia, and even gave his DNA sample to the district attorney's office.

"I did everything humanly possible, but I can't find her anywhere," he said. "I don't know where else to turn. I feel helpless."

Police never investigated the incident because authorities believed it was a runaway case, Lwowski said.

Lwowski understands getting the cold case reopened is a long shot, and his hope at finding any answers is slowly dwindling.

"I'm exhausted," he said. "This whole thing has beaten me down."

The NYPD did not return a request for comment on the case.