{"id":146031,"date":"2026-02-26T12:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146031\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:36:09","slug":"4-women-punched-in-nyc-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146031\/","title":{"rendered":"4 women punched in NYC, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/screenshot-2026-02-26-065049.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; Multiple women were punched in the face in Morningside Heights earlier this month, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Officials say the assault happened near West 122nd Street and Broadway around 7 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police said an unidentified individual approached four women who were walking on the sidewalk and punched each of them in the face with a closed fist.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Three of the victims, including a 52-year-old woman, a 35-year-old woman and a 24-year-old woman refused medical attention at the scene, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Another 35-year-old woman was taken to a nearby hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The suspect fled on foot, heading southbound on Broadway, police said.<\/p>\n<p> Police seek suspect <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The NYPD released surveillance images of the individual and is asking for the public\u2019s help in identifying the suspect.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-gray-dancer-photo-collage-1280-x-720-px-4.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-97c6a84c=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers hotline at 800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report is based on information from police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/manhattan\/morningside-heights\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morningside Heights<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK &#8211; Multiple women were punched in the face in Morningside Heights earlier this month, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[850,75,12255,9,12,56,63,65,64,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-146031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-morningside-heights","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146031","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=146031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}