{"id":317277,"date":"2026-08-09T17:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317277\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T17:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:42:20","slug":"tragic-new-york-harbor-boat-crash-victims-idd-as-mom-and-her-5-month-old-infant-with-babys-stricken-dad-also-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317277\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic New York Harbor boat crash victims ID’d as mom and her 5-month-old infant \u2014 with baby\u2019s stricken dad also on board"},"content":{"rendered":"

The two tragic passengers killed when the dangerously overcrowded motorboat they were on flipped in New York Harbor<\/a> have been ID\u2019d as a mom and her infant daughter from Queens, police sources said Sunday.<\/p>\n

Sara Sanchez, 27, and her 5-month-old, Antonella Garcia, of College Point, were among 14 people on\u00a0 the 2019 21-foot white Yamaha AR210 when it capsized close to Liberty Island <\/a>just before 10:30 p.m.\u00a0 Saturday, sources said.<\/p>\n

Sanchez\u2019s boyfriend, who was Garcia\u2019s father, was among those on board at the time, according to the police.<\/p>\n

\"AnA US Army Corps of Engineers crane vessel lifts an overturned boat from New York Harbor at the NYPD Harbor Unit base in Brooklyn on Sunday, August 9, 2026. The vessel capsized off Liberty Island on Saturday, leaving a 27-year-old woman and a 5-month-old child dead. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n

\"RescuersFDNY units respond to a capsized vessel on Saturday, August 8, 2026, off Liberty Island. A woman and a child were pulled from the water in critical condition and at least six other victims were hospitalized after the boat overturned with more than a dozen people on board. Paul Martinka for NY Post<\/p>\n

The vessel typically has a capacity of about 10 people, according to online sites.<\/p>\n

But it\u00a0should not have been carrying more than five passengers, given the location where the fatal incident occurred, a well-placed source told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecreational boating in New York Harbor is the Wild West,\u2019\u2019 the source said. \u201cUncharted debris, rip rap, bridge abutments, anchorage chains, commercial shipping channels, marine plane traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Follow the latest on the boat crash off Liberty Island in New York Harbor:<\/p>\n

The boat\u2019s operator, Manuel Hernandez, 46, was hit with 13 charges of reckless endangerment<\/a>, with further possible charges expected to involve the deaths of the mother and child, sources said.<\/p>\n

His last known address was a swanky Midtown Manhattan building just south of Central Park. His exact relationship to the victims is unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two tragic passengers killed when the dangerously overcrowded motorboat they were on flipped in New York Harbor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8948,1015,57,9,4180,11,10,103,23589,58],"class_list":["post-317277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-boat-crashes","tag-deaths","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-harbor","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nypd","tag-statue-of-liberty","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317277","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=317277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}