{"id":285022,"date":"2026-07-02T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/285022\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:53:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-9-foot-shark-spotted-at-point-lookout-swimming-stopped-at-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/285022\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 9 Foot Shark Spotted At Point Lookout Swimming Stopped At Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 9-foot shark was spotted at Point Lookout Thursday morning and all surrounding area beaches are closed to swimming.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Town of Hempstead lifeguards saw the shark at about 10 a.m. on Thursday morning, according to a news release from the town. The Point Lookout beach and adjacent beaches were immediately red-flagged for swimming as the town deployed its shark patrol to inspect local waterways, using a drone and jet ski.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hempstead Town officials planned a news conference at noon Thursday to provide more details and updates on the shark sighting. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 9-foot shark was spotted at Point Lookout Thursday morning and all surrounding area beaches are closed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-285022","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\/285022","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=285022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}