{"id":228832,"date":"2026-05-12T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228832\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:00:45","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-taxi-driver-robbed-at-knifepoint-in-brownsville-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228832\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Taxi Driver Robbed At Knifepoint In Brownsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A taxi driver was robbed at knifepoint in Brownsville.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the incident happened on April 30 at Newport and Osborn streets just before 4 a.m. A passenger got into the tax of the 49-year-old driver. When the driver asked for payment prior to arriving at the destination, the passenger refused.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The driver and passenger got out of the vehicle and had a confrontation. The passenger took out a knife and took the driver\u2019s wallet containing $400 and several credit cards. The driver fell to the ground and sustained minor injuries. EMS took him to One Brooklyn Health-Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center and he is expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is asked to call NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A taxi driver was robbed at knifepoint in Brownsville. Police say the incident happened on April 30 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-228832","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\/228832","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=228832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}