{"id":225815,"date":"2026-05-09T18:12:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/225815\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T18:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:12:33","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-the-system-is-failing-greenpoint-residents-fed-up-with-tenant-accused-of-terrorizing-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/225815\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | The System Is Failing Greenpoint Residents Fed Up With Tenant Accused Of Terrorizing Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Greenpoint residents are asking for the city to step in for a mentally unstable tenant at 40 Oak St.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;We are not the only victims of this man, this man has harassed others and children,&#8221; said Patience, a neighbor who lives on the same floor.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say 42-year-old Mark Creightney has been assaulting and harassing neighbors for the last four years.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say Creightney was arrested on Friday for multiple incidents including kicking a 29-year-old woman in the face.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">That same day police say he forcibly touched a 41-year-old woman.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors say he&#8217;s been arrested and released before.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;The system is failing not only him, the system is failing us, because we have to live with him every day,&#8221; said Patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greenpoint residents are asking for the city to step in for a mentally unstable tenant at 40 Oak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-225815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225815","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=225815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}