{"id":109631,"date":"2026-01-23T11:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109631\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:36:10","slug":"man-robbed-at-knifepoint-on-upper-west-side-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109631\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Robbed at Knifepoint on Upper West Side: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Resized-New-NYPD-stock-pic-1-e1715169748177.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Resized-New-NYPD-stock-pic-1-e1715169748177.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\"  \/><\/a>Photo Credit: WSR<\/p>\n<p>By Gus Saltonstall<\/p>\n<p>A man was robbed at knifepoint Wednesday on the Upper West Side, a police spokesperson confirmed to West Side Rag.<\/p>\n<p>A 29-year-old man was standing outside of 73 West 85th Street, near the corner of Columbus Avenue, around 7:15 p.m., when a man in a black face mask came up to him and flashed a knife, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The culprit then snatched the victim\u2019s cellphone and fled on foot in an unknown direction, police said. The 29-year-old man was not injured in the interaction, NYPD added.<\/p>\n<p>There have been no arrests, and the investigation remains ongoing, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to West Side Rag\u2019s FREE email newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westsiderag.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=5772ebf2a0a585445f1188785&amp;id=f50755d5f9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. And you can Support the Rag\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/support-west-side-rag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: WSR By Gus Saltonstall A man was robbed at knifepoint Wednesday on the Upper West Side,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-109631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}