{"id":278973,"date":"2026-06-26T15:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278973\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:13:14","slug":"dolphins-spotted-off-coney-island-near-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278973\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins spotted off Coney Island near New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"523\" height=\"330\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5688e78b0a7fbe45fdc43b23a64f5cf8.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A pod of dolphins was spotted off the coast of New York near Coney Island on Wednesday, according to NYC Water.<\/p>\n<p>Marine unit captures sighting<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NYC Water said its Marine Unit observed the group of dolphins in the area, calling the sighting a sign of improving water quality in the harbor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said New York Harbor is now considered the cleanest it has been in more than 150 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pod of dolphins was spotted off the coast of New York near Coney Island on Wednesday, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[107201,9,4180,56,63,65,64,23298,107200],"class_list":["post-278973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-group-of-dolphins","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-harbor","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nyc-water","tag-pod-of-dolphins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278973","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=278973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}