{"id":195958,"date":"2026-04-13T21:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195958\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:04:57","slug":"group-of-teens-attack-and-rob-man-at-knifepoint-in-dyker-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195958\/","title":{"rendered":"Group of teens attack and rob man at knifepoint in Dyker Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DYKER HEIGHTS \u2013 AN 18-YEAR-OLD man was attacked and robbed at knife point by a group of teen assailants in Dyker Heights April 12.<\/p>\n<p>At 9:50 p.m., the victim was on Eighth Avenue and 66th Street when he was approached by a group of 15 thieves, police said. One of them took out a knife and demanded he give them his sweatshirt. When the victim said no, the perpetrators attacked him, took the sweatshirt off him and fled.<\/p>\n<p>The man sustained injuries to his face, ear and lip. He was taken to a local area hospital and was listed as stable.<\/p>\n<p>Police described the crooks as teenage boys. No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing.<\/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":"DYKER HEIGHTS \u2013 AN 18-YEAR-OLD man was attacked and robbed at knife point by a group of teen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3302,303,9,24,63,134,136,135,78131],"class_list":["post-195958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","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-thieves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195958","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=195958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}