Police are searching for two men who they say robbed a 14-year-old boy of his jacket at knifepoint in Bensonhurst.<\/p>\n
The masked men approached the boy near Bay Parkway and West 11th Street just after 6 p.m. on Feb. 15.<\/p>\n
Authorities say one of the men displayed a knife and took his jacket before both men ran from the scene, traveling southbound on West 11th Street.<\/p>\n
The boy was not injured.<\/p>\n
Police say the men were last seen wearing black facemasks.<\/p>\n
The man who displayed the knife was observed in an orange hoodie, orange sweatpants, a black bubble vest and white sneakers while the second man was last seen in a black jacket, gray sweatpants, a gray hoodie and black sneakers.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for two men who they say robbed a 14-year-old boy of his jacket at knifepoint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1363,98,100,99,12038,9,24,63,103,1690,12413],"class_list":["post-151976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bensonhurst","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-knifepoint-robbery","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-robbery","tag-teen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151976","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=151976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}