{"id":300006,"date":"2026-07-19T15:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300006\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T15:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:45:26","slug":"man-throws-cell-phone-at-baby-girl-and-her-mom-near-bryant-park-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300006\/","title":{"rendered":"Man throws cell phone at baby girl and her mom near Bryant Park: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unhinged man was arrested after throwing a cell phone at a baby in a stroller and her mother, too, near <a href=\"https:\/\/bryantpark.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryant Park<\/a> in Midtown Manhattan on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Okon, 49, threw a cell phone at the baby, striking her, around 9:55 a.m. at Sixth Ave. and W. 41st St., then picked up the phone and threw it again, hitting the mother, 39, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Okon was charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>The baby suffered minor injuries. The mom refused medical attention for both of them.<\/p>\n<p>Okon, who is homeless, and the mother had no prior contact and were not known to each other, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops quickly cuffed Okon after the incident. His arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court was pending Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unhinged man was arrested after throwing a cell phone at a baby in a stroller and her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-300006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300006","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=300006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}