{"id":360050,"date":"2026-09-29T20:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360050\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T20:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:02:21","slug":"violent-pair-pistol-whips-man-steals-luxury-watch-cash-outside-nyc-bar-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360050\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent pair pistol-whips man, steals luxury watch, cash outside NYC bar: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A violent pair bashed a man in the head with a gun before swiping his luxury watch and a bundle of cash outside an East Village dive bar early Tuesday, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The duo \u2014 both strangers \u2014 approached the victim around 3:20 a.m. in front of Josie\u2019s Bar on East 6th Street near Avenue A and yanked on his fanny pack, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the muggers then pulled out a gun and hit him over the head multiple times, leaving him bloody, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41046051\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/crop-41045933.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior of Josie's Bar is seen at 520 E 6th St in New York, in 2015.\" class=\"wp-image-41046051\"\/>The two strangers bashed the victim with a gun outside Josie\u2019s Bar on East 6th Street before taking off with his high-end watch and cash, police said. Facebook\/Josie&#8217;s Bar<\/p>\n<p>The two brutes then stole an unknown amount of cash, his Timex T-Cell watch and his passport, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The battered victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he is listed in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The suspects fled in a white vehicle and had not been caught several hours later, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The heist happened in the confines of the NYPD\u2019s 9th Precinct, where robberies are down by about 37 percent so far this year, according to data last updated Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The statistics show 58 robberies reported within the precinct\u2019s boundaries during that time period, compared to 92 within the same span in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A violent pair bashed a man in the head with a gun before swiping his luxury watch and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8075,303,7624,57,11183,9,56,63,65,64,2955,58],"class_list":["post-360050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bars","tag-crime","tag-east-village","tag-metro","tag-mugging","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-robberies","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360050","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=360050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}