{"id":80197,"date":"2025-12-24T15:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80197\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:49:09","slug":"maniac-hit-stranger-in-face-with-baseball-bat-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80197\/","title":{"rendered":"Maniac hit stranger in face with baseball bat in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A black-clad menace was caught on camera running up to a stranger on the Upper West Side and repeatedly whacking him in the face with a baseball bat, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>The unsuspecting 24-year-old victim was walking near West End Avenue and W. 107th Street around 10:30 p.m. Sunday night when the maniac ran up and started swinging the black bat, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p>The thug hit the stranger several times in the face before running off westbound towards Riverside Park.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified victim suffered facial injuries and was rushed by EMS to Mount Sinai Morningside in stable condition, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.61366806;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38011900\" width=\"362\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/107-street-24-year-old-117824921.jpg\" alt=\"The man struck the victim in the face with a black baseball bat.\" class=\"wp-image-38011900\"  \/>The man struck the victim in the face with a black baseball bat. dcpi<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.49367089;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38011850\" width=\"291\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/107-street-24-year-old-117824925.jpg\" alt=\"The suspect attacked a 24-year-old with a baseball bat on Sunday night.\" class=\"wp-image-38011850\"  \/>The suspect attacked a 24-year-old with a baseball bat on Sunday night. dcpi<\/p>\n<p>Police released video of the alleged suspect creeping through the streets in all black clothing carrying a black baseball bat.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described as a male with a light complexion, roughly 5\u20198\u201d with a slim build.<\/p>\n<p>Those with information about the incident are asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A black-clad menace was caught on camera running up to a stranger on the Upper West Side and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5357,33213,303,75,84,83,57,9,24,63,62,58],"class_list":["post-80197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-attacks","tag-bats","tag-crime","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-upper-west-side","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80197","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=80197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}