Police are looking for a suspect after a man's vehicle was stolen at gunpoint.

At about 5 a.m. on Sunday morning near Colony Street and York Avenue, a 26-year old man was using a payphone when he was confronted by a man armed with a gun, police said.

The suspect demanded the victim's property, took his car keys, and then took off in the man's vehicle, officers said.

Police are looking for as suspect described as aboriginal in appearance, five feet ten inches (178 centimetres) in height, in his early 20's.