{"id":196217,"date":"2026-04-14T00:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196217\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:30:08","slug":"teen-attacked-by-group-of-robbers-at-leif-ericson-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196217\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen attacked by group of robbers at Leif Ericson Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAY RIDGE \u2013 AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD man was attacked and robbed by a large group of thieves in Leif Ericson Park in Bay Ridge on Sunday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>At around 9:50 on April 12, the victim, while inside the park at 8th Avenue and 66th Street, was approached by several other teenagers, who displayed a knife.\u00a0 When one of the group demanded the victim\u2019s sweatshirt, he refused. The muggers then attacked, inflicting injuries to the teen\u2019s face, ear and lip, before forcibly taking his sweatshirt and fleeing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing, police said.<\/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":"BAY RIDGE \u2013 AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD man was attacked and robbed by a large group of thieves in Leif&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3302,17564,303,9,24,63,1690,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-196217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-child-safety-youth-safety","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-robbery","15":"tag-staten-island","16":"tag-staten-island-headlines","17":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196217","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=196217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}