{"id":364878,"date":"2026-10-05T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364878\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:52:08","slug":"nyc-bicyclist-71-killed-in-collision-with-dog-in-central-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364878\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC bicyclist, 71, killed in collision with dog in Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 71-year-old bicyclist was killed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralparknyc.org\/activities\/guides\/bicycling\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central Park<\/a> Monday morning when he collided with a golden retriever, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The bicyclist was heading uptown on East Drive when the dog ran in front of him near E. 84th St. at 8:18 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p>The bicyclist flipped over the handlebars of his bike and struck his head on the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>The bicyclist, who was wearing a helmet, suffered serious head trauma and body injuries.<\/p>\n<p>He was rushed by medics to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/locations\/manhattan\/nyp-weill-cornell-medical-center\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell<\/a> but could not be saved. His name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police investigate on East Drive in Central Park after a cyclist was killed in a collision with a dog on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026.\" width=\"4200\" height=\"308\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TNY5875.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9264417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Police investigate on East Drive in Central Park after a cyclist was killed in a collision with a dog on Monday. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>The dog and its owner remained on scene. The dog was not hurt.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if the dog was on its leash or running free at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 71-year-old bicyclist was killed in Central Park Monday morning when he collided with a golden retriever, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,9,24,264,10,12,56,63,261,65,64,265],"class_list":["post-364878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364878","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=364878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}