{"id":273364,"date":"2026-06-21T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273364\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:38:08","slug":"chess-player-slashed-at-table-in-popular-nyc-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273364\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess player slashed at table in popular NYC park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was slashed from behind while playing chess in Union Square on Sunday morning, according to cops and sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old chess player was sitting down at a table in the park\u2019s locally famous game area when a person snuck up and cut him along the back, police and law-enforcement sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The assailant then ran away on foot, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cops said it\u2019s unclear why the assailant slashed the player and if the incident was chess-related.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39746045\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chess-player-slashing-comp.jpg\" alt=\"Chess players at tables under the Union Square subway entrance pavilion.\" class=\"wp-image-39746045\"  \/>Union Square is a popular chess-playing area.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39746053\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-173662238.jpg\" alt=\"Two men play chess outdoors in a city square under umbrellas, while people walk by in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-39746053\"  \/>Players take on passers-by in games of chess, often with money wagered. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the wounded man to Bellevue Hospital, where he is in stable condition, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Union Square is known for its chessboards, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/10\/28\/inside-the-life-of-a-new-york-city-chess-hustler\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">where players take on passers-by in games, often with money wagered.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was slashed from behind while playing chess in Union Square on Sunday morning, according to cops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8090,303,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,614,6018,58],"class_list":["post-273364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-chess","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-slash","tag-union-square","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273364","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=273364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}