{"id":146084,"date":"2026-02-26T13:46:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146084\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:46:35","slug":"four-women-punched-in-face-on-manhattan-street-by-stranger-yelling-leave-me-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146084\/","title":{"rendered":"Four women punched in face on Manhattan street by stranger yelling, &#8216;Leave me alone!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four women were punched in the face on a Manhattan street by an apparently emotionally disturbed stranger yelling, \u201cLeave me alone!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Cops released surveillance footage of the suspect and are asking the public\u2019s help identifying him and tracking him down.<\/p>\n<p>The women were walking in different directions and were not together when they were attacked near W. 122nd St. and Broadway in Morningside Heights about 7 p.m. Feb. 12, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having no prior interactions with the victims, the attacker yelled \u201cLeave me alone\u201d before running off downtown on Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the victims, ages 52, 35 and 24, did not require medical attention while a 35 woman was taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountsinai.org\/locations\/mount-sinai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Sinai Morningside.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four women were punched in the face on a Manhattan street by an apparently emotionally disturbed stranger yelling,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-146084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-county","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146084","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=146084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}