{"id":229903,"date":"2026-05-13T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229903\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:15:02","slug":"news-12-bronx-drag-racing-crackdown-raises-safety-concerns-in-eastchester-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229903\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Drag Racing Crackdown Raises Safety Concerns In Eastchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are cracking down on illegal street takeover activity in Eastchester.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The crackdown comes after seven people were arrested and officers seized three cars and two firearms.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors say this is the same area where drag racing has become a growing problem.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 also uncovered an Instagram video posted about a month ago that appears to show similar activity, with cars spinning through the street surrounded by crowds. Residents say the once quiet neighborhood is now facing dangerous late-night gatherings that put the community at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are cracking down on illegal street takeover activity in Eastchester. The crackdown comes after seven people were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-229903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229903","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=229903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}