{"id":360890,"date":"2026-09-30T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360890\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:00:07","slug":"brooklyn-smoker-punches-woman-71-who-told-her-to-stop-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360890\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn smoker punches woman, 71, who told her to stop: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; Police are searching for a smoker who allegedly punched a 71-year-old woman who&#8217;d asked her to stub out her light in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD released an image Wednesday of the suspect they&#8217;re after in the Sept. 17 assault in Brighton Beach.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the victim was sitting on a bench at Brighton 15th Street and Brighton Beach Avenue around 4 p.m. when she asked her attacker to stop smoking.<\/p>\n<p>During the argument, the smoker punched the victim in the face, police said. She then fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The victim wasn&#8217;t seriously injured and declined medical attention.<\/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; Police are searching for a smoker who allegedly punched a 71-year-old woman who&#8217;d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1369,128,98,9,24,63,261,103,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-360890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-brighton-beach","tag-bronx","tag-brooklyn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-nypd","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360890","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=360890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}