{"id":170104,"date":"2026-03-21T05:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/170104\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T05:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:10:09","slug":"16-year-old-falls-to-his-death-in-brooklyn-while-taking-photo-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/170104\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old falls to his death in Brooklyn while taking photo \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old fell to his death while attempting to take a photo along the Brooklyn waterfront, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n<p>The teen fell from a small tower near the water in Marsha P. Johnson State Park, in the area of North 10th Street and Kent Avenue in Williamsburg shortly after 1 p.m., police and law enforcement sources said. <\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The small tower the teen was on is a few stories tall, and sources said he fell while trying to take a photo, but further details regarding what happened were not immediately clear. The teen has not yet been identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old fell to his death while attempting to take a photo along the Brooklyn waterfront, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[98,75,84,83,9,24,63,1424],"class_list":["post-170104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-brooklyn","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-williamsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170104","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=170104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}