{"id":317240,"date":"2026-08-09T16:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317240\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T16:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:06:35","slug":"man-killed-by-usps-truck-in-nyc-hit-and-run-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317240\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Killed By USPS Truck In NYC Hit-And-Run: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HELL&#8217;S KITCHEN, MANHATTAN \u2014 Police are searching for a U.S. Postal Service driver after a 66-year-old man was struck and killed Saturday morning in Hell&#8217;s Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the crash happened shortly after 5:30 a.m. on Ninth Avenue between West 54th and West 55th streets, when the man was crossing mid-block and was struck by a USPS truck, according to ABC 7. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/midtown-nyc\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/police-search-usps-driver-man-killed-hells-kitchen-hit-run\/19646430\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The driver fled the scene, and the victim<\/a> was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His identity has not yet been released. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/police-search-usps-driver-man-killed-hells-kitchen-hit-run\/19646430\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More via ABC 7 New York<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HELL&#8217;S KITCHEN, MANHATTAN \u2014 Police are searching for a U.S. Postal Service driver after a 66-year-old man was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-317240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317240","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=317240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}