{"id":830523,"date":"2026-08-30T05:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830523\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T05:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:16:12","slug":"brooklyn-block-party-pays-tribute-to-michael-jackson-on-what-would-have-been-his-68th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830523\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn block party pays tribute to Michael Jackson on what would have been his 68th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByEyewitness News  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/origin-wabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, August 30, 2026 2:27AM<\/p>\n<p>A part in Ft. Greene Park honors Michael Jackson&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FORT GREENE, Brooklyn (WABC) &#8212; A block party paid tribute to the King of Pop on what would have been his 68th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They played Michael Jackson&#8217;s music on Saturday at Fort Greene Park to mark the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There was a little Billie Jean, some Human Nature and even some Thriller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For those who could moonwalk, it was the day to be a dancing machine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Spike Lee organizes the gathering every year.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByEyewitness News Sunday, August 30, 2026 2:27AM A part in Ft. Greene Park honors Michael Jackson&#8217;s birthday. FORT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[351717,88,216],"class_list":["post-830523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-351717","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}