{"id":174946,"date":"2026-03-25T18:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/174946\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:02:07","slug":"man-hospitalized-after-hammer-attack-in-borough-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/174946\/","title":{"rendered":"Man hospitalized after hammer attack in Borough Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOROUGH PARK \u2014 A 58-YEAR-OLD MAN was attacked with a hammer by an unknown assailant while inside a building at 1226 42nd St. in Borough Park around 4:13 p.m. on Thursday, March 19, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim was approached by the unidentified man, who engaged him in a verbal dispute over the usage of tools. He then displayed a hammer, and struck him on his head, according to authorities. The attacker then fled. EMS transported the victim to Maimonides Medical Center in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described as having a medium complexion and was last seen wearing a black hat, green hooded jacket, tan shirt and tan pants.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782), on X @NYPDTips, or by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOROUGH PARK \u2014 A 58-YEAR-OLD MAN was attacked with a hammer by an unknown assailant while inside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[211,3302,303,9,24,63,134,136,135,15863],"class_list":["post-174946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-assault","tag-breaking","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-wanted-poster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174946","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=174946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}