{"id":319752,"date":"2026-08-12T20:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319752\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:04:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:04:51","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-held-at-knifepoint-forced-to-withdraw-2k-from-sunset-park-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319752\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Held At Knifepoint Forced To Withdraw 2k From Sunset Park Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 33-year-old man was held at knifepoint while being forced to withdraw money from a Sunset Park bank, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The incident happened on Aug. 6. Police say two men approached the victim at the intersection of 4th Avenue and 56th Street just after 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The two men then held the victim at knifepoint and led him to a bank, forcing him to withdraw $2,000. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The two men ran off eastbound on 54th Street. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The victim was not hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 33-year-old man was held at knifepoint while being forced to withdraw money from a Sunset Park bank,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-319752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319752","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=319752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}