{"id":112215,"date":"2026-01-25T21:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112215\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T21:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:51:26","slug":"community-gathers-for-mass-snowball-fight-in-brooklyns-mccarren-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112215\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Gathers for Mass Snowball Fight in Brooklyn&#8217;s McCarren Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brooklynites gathered at McCarren Park for a mass snowball fight on Sunday, January 25, as a major storm dumped as much as 10 inches of snow on the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Between 8 and 10 inches of snow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/source\/crh\/snowmap.html?sid=okx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:was reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">was reported<\/a> across areas of Brooklyn as of around 3 pm local time on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video filmed by James Law shows revelers chucking snowballs at each other in Greenpoint\u2019s McCarren Park. Credit: James Law via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklynites gathered at McCarren Park for a mass snowball fight on Sunday, January 25, as a major storm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[40025,98,100,99,50100,15801,9,24,63,50099],"class_list":["post-112215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-10-inches-of-snow","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-james-law","tag-mccarren-park","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-snowball-fight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112215","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=112215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}