{"id":139537,"date":"2026-02-20T01:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139537\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:38:07","slug":"heartless-thug-shoves-elderly-woman-steals-her-cane-in-front-of-nyc-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139537\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartless thug shoves elderly woman, steals her cane, in front of NYC Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heartless thug shoved an elderly woman to the ground and stole her cane outside of a downtown Manhattan Target on Thursday afternoon, according to cops and sources.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to an assault outside a Target located on East 14th Street and Union Square East, around 3:15 p.m., according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.35185185;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38547174\" width=\"798\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4th-ave-zeckendorf-towers-elderly-121773686.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior view of a Target store entrance at 14th Street and 4th Avenue, Union Square.\" class=\"wp-image-38547174\"  \/>A heartless thug pushed an elderly woman to the ground and stole her cane outside of a Target near Union Square in downtown Manhattan on Thursday afternoon.  Google maps<\/p>\n<p>Officers discovered an 88-year-old woman had been pushed to the ground by an unidentified individual in front of the major retailer and had her cane snatched from her, cops and sources said. <\/p>\n<p>The woman suffered pain throughout her body and was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital in stable condition, police added. <\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made yet, and the incident remains under investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heartless thug shoved an elderly woman to the ground and stole her cane outside of a downtown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[357,303,57,9,56,63,65,64,2919,797,6018,58],"class_list":["post-139537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-assaults","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-target","tag-theft","tag-union-square","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139537","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=139537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}