{"id":144789,"date":"2026-02-25T14:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144789\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:06:22","slug":"snow-returns-in-nyc-snowball-fight-controversy-and-staten-island-still-digging-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144789\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow returns in NYC, snowball fight controversy and Staten Island still digging out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-ea1137ca=\"\">A messy winter stretch continues across the tri-state: a quick burst of wet snow creates slick roads and a slower morning commute, with spinouts and delays reported on major routes, plus impacts to trains and transit as the region recovers from the storm.<\/p>\n<p>In NYC, police are also investigating a Washington Square Park snowball fight that escalated after officers arrived to control the crowd. The NYPD says officers were hit with snowballs and chunks of ice, and the search is on for suspects as city leaders debate how serious the incident was.<\/p>\n<p>And on Staten Island, neighborhoods buried under deep snowfall totals say plowing resources still weren\u2019t enough \u2014 as the borough continues digging out and frustrations linger over decisions like reopening schools, with citywide attendance reported at 63%.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0February 25, 2026 8:06am EST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A messy winter stretch continues across the tri-state: a quick burst of wet snow creates slick roads and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-144789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144789","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=144789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}