{"id":303504,"date":"2026-07-23T04:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303504\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T04:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:00:40","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-high-rip-current-risk-declared-at-brooklyn-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303504\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | High Rip Current Risk Declared At Brooklyn Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The city is warning swimmers about life-threatening rip currents.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">But some swimmers like Catherine say the warning will not stop her from visiting the beach.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI don\u2019t think nothing of it because I was born in Coney Island, so I know to go up to a certain point and that my feet are touching the floor so that I can get out,&#8221; said Catherine.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">But even experienced swimmers can get into trouble. If you get caught in a rip current, you shouldn&#8217;t panic. Swim parallel to the shore to get out of it.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NYC Parks officials say to keep an eye out and not go in where sections are red-flagged or there is no lifeguard present. Beachgoers like Salvatore Marceca say he&#8217;s playing it safe.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cDefinitely don\u2019t go too deep in the water. If you stay over here and wet your feet, you&#8217;ll be OK,&#8221; said Marceca.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The city says the rip current risks are in effect until Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city is warning swimmers about life-threatening rip currents. But some swimmers like Catherine say the warning will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-303504","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\/303504","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=303504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}