{"id":157553,"date":"2026-03-09T06:48:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157553\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:48:40","slug":"terror-on-the-upper-east-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157553\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror on the Upper East Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men tried to detonate homemade bombs on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on Saturday. They had, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/03\/08\/ied-tossed-at-jake-langan-at-gracie-mansion-anti-islam-protest-was-operational-nypd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to reports<\/a>, been inspired by ISIS videos. In a video from the scene, you can hear someone scream, \u201cAllahu akbar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But you would never know any of that from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/2030704552765263946\" rel=\"nofollow\">the mayor\u2019s statement<\/a>\u2014or from much of the mainstream media\u2019s coverage. If you were reading that, or listening to the words of the city\u2019s top elected official, you would assume the bombs were placed by white supremacists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men tried to detonate homemade bombs on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on Saturday. They had,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-157553","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\/157553","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=157553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}