{"id":81390,"date":"2025-12-26T10:53:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T10:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81390\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T10:53:20","slug":"upper-west-side-attacker-sought-for-viciously-assaulting-man-with-baseball-bat-on-street-amnewyork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81390\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper West Side attacker sought for viciously assaulting man with baseball bat on street \u2013 amNewYork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1187\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/assault-baseball-bat-upper-west-side-12242025.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Suspect in baseball bat assault on Upper West Side\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Upper West Side attacker sought for viciously assaulting man with baseball bat on street 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Cops are on the hunt for the brute who violently beat a man with a baseball bat on an Upper West Side street earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Photos courtesy of NYPD<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Cops are on the hunt for the brute who violently beat a man with a baseball bat on an <a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/manhattan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Upper West Side<\/a> street earlier this week.\n<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD released images Wednesday morning of the perpetrator behind the heinous attack, which occurred near West End Avenue and West 107th Street at about 10:35 p.m. on Dec. 21.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police reported that the suspect approached the victim, a 24-year-old man, and repeatedly struck him multiple times in the face with the baseball bat. The motive for the assault was not disclosed.\n<\/p>\n<p>Following the bloody assault, law enforcement sources said, the perpetrator fled on foot westbound on West 107th Street toward Riverside Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported to the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd24pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">24th Precinct<\/a>. EMS rushed the wounded man to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital for treatment of multiple facial injuries; he was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police described the suspect as a man with a light complexion and a slim build, standing about 5 feet, 8 inches tall. He was last seen wearing all black clothing, including a black bubble jacket, and carrying a black baseball bat.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops are on the hunt for the brute who violently beat a man with a baseball bat on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[40197,40198,40199,784,4126,30735,9,24,55,54,56,103,613,6399,10576,40200,6579,62,4129,40201,40202],"class_list":{"0":"post-81390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-24th-precinct","9":"tag-assault-victim-hospitalized","10":"tag-baseball-bat-assault","11":"tag-crime-stoppers","12":"tag-manhattan-crime","13":"tag-mount-sinai-morningside","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-city-news","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nypd","20":"tag-pm-newsletter","21":"tag-police-investigation","22":"tag-public-safety-alert","23":"tag-riverside-park-area","24":"tag-suspect-at-large","25":"tag-upper-west-side","26":"tag-violent-attack","27":"tag-west-107th-street","28":"tag-west-end-avenue"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81390","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=81390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}