{"id":39925,"date":"2025-11-14T21:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39925\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:29:09","slug":"80-year-old-slashed-across-face-on-nyc-street-by-menace-with-long-rap-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39925\/","title":{"rendered":"80-year-old slashed across face on NYC street by menace with long rap sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 80-year-old man who was chatting with a friend on a Brooklyn street Thursday morning was mercilessly slashed across the face by a menace with a lengthy rap sheet, cops and sources said. <\/p>\n<p>The octogenarian and his pal were talking at Knickerbocker Avenue and Troutman Street in Bushwick around 6:30 a.m. when 56-year-old Israel Rivera allegedly approached the pair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to cut you,\u201d he hissed before he knifed the older man across the face. <\/p>\n<p>The unidentified victim was taken to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, where he was treated for the lacerations on his face.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera, who police describe as an acquaintance of the victim, was arrested at the scene and hit with multiple charges, including felony assault, criminal possession of a weapon, menacing and possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37669784\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2020-officials-new-york-city-115422936.jpg\" alt=\"Ambulances parked outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center.\" class=\"wp-image-37669784\"  \/>The 80-year-old victim was taken to Wyckoff Medical Center to get treated for the lacerations on his face. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37669777\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/knickerbocker-avenue-troutman-street-115423085.jpg\" alt=\"photo of intersection of attack\" class=\"wp-image-37669777\"  \/>The violent attack happened in Bushwick at Knickerbocker Avenue and Troutman Street. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>Rivera has eight prior arrests before Thursday\u2019s senseless assault \u2014 and it\u2019s not his first time terrorizing Brooklynites on Knickerbocker Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 17, 2022, he was nabbed for allegedly shooting a 63-year-old male cyclist in the leg on the very same avenue. According to police, Rivera and the victim, whom he did not know, got into an argument.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent arrest was in June for criminal possession of stolen property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 80-year-old man who was chatting with a friend on a Brooklyn street Thursday morning was mercilessly slashed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3283,98,9449,57,9,56,63,65,64,361,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-39925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-bushwick","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-slashings","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39925","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=39925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}