{"id":316559,"date":"2026-08-08T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316559\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:26:09","slug":"shouting-homophobic-slurs-attackers-beat-two-men-on-street-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316559\/","title":{"rendered":"Shouting homophobic slurs, attackers beat two men on street in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were beaten on the street in Manhattan by two men shouting homophobic slurs, cops said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, ages 31 and 37, were on Broadway near W. 29th St. in NoMad when the suspects attacked around 7:30 p.m. on July 31, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The brutes made anti-LGBT remarks before repeatedly punching and kicking the victims, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics took the older victim to <a href=\"https:\/\/nyulangone.org\/locations\/tisch-hospital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYU Langone Tisch Hospital<\/a> with minor injuries. The younger man was treated at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD released images of the suspects, who were last seen fleeing south on Broadway. Both men had dark hair and wore dark T-shirts and light-colored sneakers. One sported black track pants with a white stripe down the sides and carried a black bag with two large colored dots on it while the other man wore blue or gray pants.<\/p>\n<p>The assault is being investigated by the NYPD\u2019s Hate Crime Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were beaten on the street in Manhattan by two men shouting homophobic slurs, cops said on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[119335,119333,119334,75,84,83,9,24,21748,63,49224,119332],"class_list":["post-316559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-anti-gay-assault","tag-anti-lgbt-attack","tag-bias-attack","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nomad","tag-nyc","tag-nypd-hate-crime-task-force","tag-possible-hate-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316559","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=316559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}