{"id":152242,"date":"2026-03-04T10:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/152242\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:12:18","slug":"sleeping-homeless-man-set-on-fire-by-3-men-at-penn-station-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/152242\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping homeless man set on fire by 3 men at Penn Station, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYPD detectives are looking\u00a0for three men who set a sleeping homeless man on fire at Penn Station on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called\u00a0around\u00a08:40 p.m. after, they said, the three approached the 37-year-old man, who was sleeping on the ground outside an entrance, and set his clothes on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Police and paramedics put out the fire and took the man to the New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell burn center. Police said the man was in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The three assailants ran away before police arrived and no arrests have been made. Police said one of the men was\u00a0wearing a black jacket, another had on\u00a0a brown jacket with a gray hat, and the third man was dressed in dark clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Amtrak officials, who operate Penn Station, said Amtrak police were investigating the assault with the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"John Asbury\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"88\" height=\"104\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772619138_694_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tJohn Asbury is a breaking news and general assignment reporter. He has been with Newsday since 2014 and previously worked at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD detectives are looking\u00a0for three men who set a sleeping homeless man on fire at Penn Station on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,261],"class_list":["post-152242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nyc-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152242","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=152242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}