{"id":143498,"date":"2026-02-24T04:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143498\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T04:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:55:11","slug":"snowball-fight-erupts-in-new-york-amid-major-winter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143498\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowball Fight Erupts in New York Amid Major Winter Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New Yorkers took advantage of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/status\/2026002684617035897\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:record snowfall;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">record snowfall<\/a> around the state, as a crowd gathered at Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan for a massive snowball fight on Monday, February 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service (NWS) reported more than <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/status\/2026012957000323169\/photo\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:25 inches;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">25 inches<\/a> of snow accumulation on Sunday through Monday amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/status\/2025511507555930540\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Blizzard Warning;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Blizzard Warning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage captured by Yash Laddha shows dozens of New Yorkers hurling snowballs at each other. Credit: Yash Laddha via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Yorkers took advantage of record snowfall around the state, as a crowd gathered at Washington Square Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,8783,60219,30895,50099,21183,15081,60220],"class_list":["post-143498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-yorkers","tag-record-snowfall","tag-snow-accumulation","tag-snowball-fight","tag-the-national-weather-service","tag-washington-square-park","tag-yash-laddha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143498","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=143498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}