{"id":319709,"date":"2026-08-12T19:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319709\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:02:54","slug":"early-addition-the-queens-home-intruder-who-plopped-on-the-couch-and-looked-at-her-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319709\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Addition: The Queens home intruder who plopped on the couch and looked at her phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"lokqs\">Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where we&#8217;re a few hours away from a <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/not-seen-with-the-naked-eye-nyc-forecast-calls-for-a-partial-solar-eclipse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">partial solar eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1nr6i\">Here\u2019s what else is happening:<\/p>\n<p>Asbestos concerns halt construction on soon-to-be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2026\/08\/11\/construction-site-for-future-tallest-building-on-the-uws-shut-down-due-to-asbestos\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">tallest building<\/a> on the Upper West Side.Store employee suffers burns after Bronx storefront <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/store-worker-badly-burned-fordham-fire-investigation\/19666699\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">caught fire<\/a>.Firework explosion on Staten Island injured a 10-year-old girl, NYC parks <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/nyc-parks-employee-arrested-after-helping-10-year-old-light-firework-that-blew-off-her-fingers\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">employee arrested<\/a>.This week in marketing: A hair care company is rolling a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/news\/an-absolutely-massive-hairball-will-be-rolling-through-the-streets-of-new-york-city-this-weekheres-why-081026\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">giant hairball<\/a> through Manhattan.&#8221;We start freaking out. We&#8217;re in full panic mode\u201d: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/queens-apartment-intruder\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Apartment intruder<\/a> lounging on couch leaves Queens couple bewildered.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3cl8a\">And finally, stay cool New York:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where we&#8217;re a few hours away from a partial solar eclipse.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-319709","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\/319709","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=319709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}