{"id":328180,"date":"2026-08-24T08:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328180\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T08:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:28:14","slug":"woman-sexually-assaulted-in-central-park-say-police-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328180\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman sexually assaulted in Central Park, say police \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are searching for whoever attacked a 41-year-old woman, sexually assaulting her in Central Park early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Investigators said the assault happened around 3 a.m. near 59th Street and West Drive. The woman was taken to a nearby hospital and is expected to physically recover.<\/p>\n

No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n

Authorities believe the attacker was a stranger.<\/p>\n

Police are looking for a man described as 25 to 30-years-old with a medium build who was wearing a white jersey and black shorts at the time of the assault.<\/p>\n

On West Drive later in the day, parkgoers were horrified by word of the attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly I\u2019m in shock,” said Veroonika Tamm, who just moved to Midtown from Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Europe, usually things like this don\u2019t happen. You can go to the park all the time and there\u2019s no problems… everything was super safe always.”<\/p>\n

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(Image: NBC New York)<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s insane,” added Michael Cummings of Washington Heights. “Because you always think of Central Park as being somewhere that\u2019s so safe. Sun’s going down, lights are on, I have zero concerns,” he said. “I mean I do also have the privilege of being a man in this society.”<\/p>\n

Some visitors said the violence would change how they use the park at night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to avoid coming in the night, to be honest. I stay away at night,\u201d said Prangeli Parse of Midtown.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC New York. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC New York journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for whoever attacked a 41-year-old woman, sexually assaulting her in Central Park early Sunday morning.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4709,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-328180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-central-park","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328180","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=328180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}