{"id":382172,"date":"2026-10-25T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/382172\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:48:08","slug":"woman-sexually-assaulted-at-knifepoint-in-nyc-central-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/382172\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman sexually assaulted at knifepoint in NYC Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman was sexually assaulted at knifepoint in Central Park, police said Sunday, the latest high-profile disturbing crime in Manhattan\u2019s iconic green space.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old victim was was walking just outside the park when the attacker confronted her near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/5th+Ave+%26+E+66th+St,+New+York,+NY+10065\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c258ede7fc5b5f:0xf322b6e2b7903d25?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">E. 66th St. and Fifth Ave.<\/a> about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The creep pulled out a knife and dragged her into the park, where he sexually assaulted her until a bystander came upon the scene and called 911, the sources said. Medics took the woman to a nearby hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not have a description of the suspect Sunday morning and cops have made no arrests.<\/p>\n<p>The attack comes less than a week after a woman bicycling through the park was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/10\/20\/woman-cyclist-beaten-and-robbed-of-her-airpods-in-central-park-speaks-out-about-brutal-mugging\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beaten and robbed<\/a> of her AirPods and other items by a trio of masked crooks.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, Katherine Marroquin, 32, described the Oct. 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDTips\/status\/2112646296859197878?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">nighttime attack<\/a> near East Drive and 90th St. to the Daily News, explaining how she tried to fight the robbers off with her Stanley tumbler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen those men were hitting me, I wasn\u2019t thinking about material things. The first thing in my head was just to see my mom and dad and my family,\u201d she said. \u201cLike, I didn\u2019t care about money or my phone. I didn\u2019t care about nothing. I just care about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of Oct. 18, the park had seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-022pct.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four rapes this year<\/a>, compared to three by that point last year, NYPD stats show. But felony assaults are down in Central Park this year, with 12 incidents through Oct. 18 compared to 15 during the same time frame last year, a 20% drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was sexually assaulted at knifepoint in Central Park, police said Sunday, the latest high-profile disturbing crime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,9,24,264,12,56,63,261,65,64,265],"class_list":["post-382172","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-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\/382172","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=382172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}