{"id":167405,"date":"2026-03-18T17:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167405\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:01:37","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-postal-worker-attacked-on-the-job-in-crown-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167405\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Postal worker attacked on the job in Crown Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 46-year-old postal worker was assaulted as he delivered mail in Crown Heights. <\/p>\n<p>The incident happened near Bedford Avenue minutes after 4:30 p.m. Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the 46-year-old postal worker was delivering mail when a man approached him demanding a package in his hand. <\/p>\n<p>The man then slashed the postal worker in the face with an unknown item before fleeing into a nearby building. <\/p>\n<p>Police sources say they are looking for a man wearing a grey hooded shirt and black vest. <\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old man was transported by EMS to Methodist hospital. <\/p>\n<p>There are no arrests. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 46-year-old postal worker was assaulted as he delivered mail in Crown Heights. The incident happened near Bedford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[211,98,100,99,102,9,24,63,68320],"class_list":["post-167405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-assault","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crown-heights","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-postal-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167405","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=167405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}