{"id":242010,"date":"2026-05-23T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242010\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T22:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:30:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nypd-cancels-madison-square-garden-watch-parties-cites-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242010\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nypd Cancels Madison Square Garden Watch Parties Cites Safety Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD has cancelled watch parties at Madison Square Garden (MSG) in an effort to keep people safe.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police tell News 12 this decision was made after continuous safety issues at the watch parties outside of MSG.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One example of that, they say, was Thursday night&#8217;s watch party, with over 6,000 people in attendance. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD said in a statement that the crowds were &#8220;rough,&#8221; with people jumping over police barriers and throwing objects like glass bottles into crowds.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Six people were arrested at the Thursday event, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Bronx Council Member Oswald Feliz says he is against this decision.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;As a city, we should be creating not eliminating ways of connecting New Yorkers. We should be encouraging residents to enjoy their vibrant city and its teams,&#8221; said Feliz. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says they will not support any additional watch parties outside of MSG but will continue to review requests to support parties at alternate sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD has cancelled watch parties at Madison Square Garden (MSG) in an effort to keep people safe.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-242010","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\/242010","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=242010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}