{"id":304454,"date":"2026-07-24T02:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/304454\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T02:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:53:25","slug":"60-year-old-man-attacked-after-stepping-in-to-stop-midtown-fight-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/304454\/","title":{"rendered":"60-year-old man attacked after stepping in to stop Midtown fight \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five gang members beat a 60-year-old Good Samaritan after he tried to intervene in a fight, leaving him with two broken eye sockets in Midtown on July 17, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects punched and kicked the older adult throughout his body before fleeing the scene near West 46th Street and Seventh Avenue at around 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to Atlantic Health CentraState Medical Center in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Police Department has released photos of the five young assailants and is asking for the public\u2019s assistance in identifying them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n<p>The public can also submit tips by visiting the Crime Stoppers website at <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!u5ePhpfBwTM4jt179HdT2WklrMvxxpw4PoY11f4MrHeVb7wtXT_cDWc_6v5PzKyB66rF5ca0R7iRSa2wgJJTI04$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, or on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/RMA-1845-26-Gang-Assault-MTN-Pct-7-17-26-Photo-3.00_00_22_24.Still005-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/RMA-1845-26-Gang-Assault-MTN-Pct-7-17-26-Photo-3.00_00_15_21.Still004-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/RMA-1845-26-Gang-Assault-MTN-Pct-7-17-26-Photo-3.00_00_11_09.Still003-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/RMA-1845-26-Gang-Assault-MTN-Pct-7-17-26-Photo-3.00_00_03_12.Still002-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/RMA-1845-26-Gang-Assault-MTN-Pct-7-17-26-Photo-3.00_00_05_20.Still001-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five gang members beat a 60-year-old Good Samaritan after he tried to intervene in a fight, leaving him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-304454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304454","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=304454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}