{"id":44730,"date":"2025-11-19T12:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44730\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:48:09","slug":"71-year-old-man-punched-in-the-face-after-argument-on-mta-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44730\/","title":{"rendered":"71-year-old man punched in the face after argument on MTA bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say the incident happened on Nov. 14 at around 5:30 p.m. on a B46 bus as it approached Union Street and Utica Avenue. The 71-year-old got into an argument with a woman, who then punched the man in the face. The man fell forward and hit his head on a pole. EMS took him to the hospital and he is expected to be OK.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the woman left the bus and escaped on Utica Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say the incident happened on Nov. 14 at around 5:30 p.m. on a B46 bus as it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[211,128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-44730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-assault","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","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\/44730","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=44730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}