Two guys - one from Brooklyn, one from Queens - almost got away with $7 million in a daring, mid-day heist earlier this month. Key word: almost.

Cops caught them, a grand jury indicted them, and now they're facing fifteen years in prison.

According to the Manhattan D.A.'s office, Kyrie Baum and Orneth South began their adventure on Oct. 20:

BAUM approached security guards from New York Hospital outside a bank at First Avenue and East 69th Street at about 2:30 in the afternoon, as SOUTH waited nearby on a red Kawasaki motorcycle. BAUM aimed a pistol at the guards and demanded two canvas bags filled with over $7,000,000 in checks, money orders and cash. The defendants then fled north on the motorcycle.

On the southbound FDR Drive near 127th Street where the police had shut down traffic, the defendants tried lifting the motorcycle over a highway divider so they could flee in the opposite direction. As the police closed in, the defendants abandoned the motorcycle and fled north on foot dropping the canvas bags.

BAUM tossed a loaded gun through the driver's window of a car stuck in traffic and an envelope full of cash underneath another car as he passed. The defendants leapt off an overpass trying to get away: SOUTH broke his wrist and leg and was arrested there; BAUM was caught a block away and arrested.

The FDR? Smart robbers tune their motorcycles to Traffic and Weather on the 8's, to avoid such problems.