{"id":356534,"date":"2026-09-25T08:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356534\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:56:32","slug":"man-pistol-whipped-at-times-square-hotel-by-man-he-met-on-dating-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356534\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pistol-whipped at Times Square hotel by man he met on dating site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; A man was pistol-whipped and nearly robbed at a Times Square hotel by a man he met on a dating website, police said Thursday as they released an image of a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect attacked the 30-year-old victim around 4:25 a.m. Sunday at the Motto by Hilton on West 48th Street, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly struck the victim on the head with a gun and tried to steal his headphones but was unsuccessful. He then fled the hotel and headed westbound on Seventh Avenue, police said.<\/p>\n<p>EMS transported the victim to Mount Sinai West in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; A man was pistol-whipped and nearly robbed at a Times Square hotel by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,103,1690,2027],"class_list":["post-356534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-robbery","tag-times-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356534","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=356534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}