{"id":159880,"date":"2026-03-11T00:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159880\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T00:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:53:08","slug":"female-food-vendor-slashed-in-nyc-park-during-a-fight-over-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159880\/","title":{"rendered":"Female food vendor slashed in NYC park during a fight over turf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New York City food vendor was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/22\/us-news\/violent-robbery-pair-slashes-nyc-deli-worker-on-head-during-stick-up-all-for-2-soda-bottle-cops-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slashed and robbed<\/a> of hundreds of dollars by a rival vendor during a fight over turf <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/05\/us-news\/nypd-hunt-for-juvenile-brutes-who-fractured-elderly-womans-elbow-in-central-park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Central Park<\/a> Tuesday, according to cops and sources.<\/p>\n<p>A 24-year-old woman manning a food stand told police that another merchant, a 38-year-old woman, slashed her around 1:30 p.m. at 63rd Street and Center Drive in Manhattan, according to the NYPD and sources.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38738904\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2023-new-york-city-new-123259527.jpg\" alt=\"Vendors selling fruit from carts in Central Park during a heat wave.\" class=\"wp-image-38738904\"  \/>A food vendor was slashed and had hundreds of dollars stolen from her during a fight over turf in Central Park on Tuesday, according to authorities and sources. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38738907\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2024-new-york-city-police-123259528.jpg\" alt=\"A white NYPD SUV with its passenger door open is parked near Bethesda Fountain in Central Park.\" class=\"wp-image-38738907\"  \/>The vendor was slashed by another merchant at approximately 1:30 p.m. at 63rd Street and Center Drive in Manhattan, according to the NYPD. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old food-slinger also snatched $500 from her rival during the dispute over turf in the park \u2014 which was bustling with New Yorkers on an abnormally warm day, sources added.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect fled on foot through Heckscher Park with her husband and son, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/central-park-slashing-24-year-old-woman-injured-dispute-between-food-vendors-territory\/18700028\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WABC reported. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pair of vendors had another altercation on Christmas Eve, with the woman who was slashed on Tuesday being the previous aggressor, the outlet reported. <\/p>\n<p>EMS took the 24-year-old woman to Weill Cornell Medical Center in stable condition, police said. <\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made. <\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York City food vendor was slashed and robbed of hundreds of dollars by a rival vendor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[211,4709,7888,57,9,56,63,65,64,361,797,58],"class_list":["post-159880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-assault","tag-central-park","tag-food-vendors","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-slashings","tag-theft","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159880","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=159880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}