{"id":149633,"date":"2026-03-02T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149633\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:24:08","slug":"88-year-old-manhattan-man-with-dementia-is-missing-from-home-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149633\/","title":{"rendered":"88-year-old Manhattan man with dementia is missing from home, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"8xwvd\">Police are urging New York City residents to look out for an octogenarian who went missing from his apartment building in Manhattan on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ba31e\">NYPD officials said 88-year-old Osvaldo Acosta was last seen around 4:30 p.m. as he left his home at NYCHA\u2019s Elliott Houses on West 25th Street and 10th Avenue in Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9thmo\">Acosta has dementia and was wearing a white medical bracelet at the time, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"mg6d\">Police said Acosta has brown hair and a black mustache and is about 5\u201911\u201d and 160 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black jacket, a black hat, black pants and gray shoes.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"anelc\">Police are asking anyone with information to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). People can also submit their tips on the <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"jaf5\">This is a developing story based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are urging New York City residents to look out for an octogenarian who went missing from his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-149633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149633","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=149633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}