{"id":133212,"date":"2025-08-10T02:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133212\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T02:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:03:11","slug":"teen-drowns-near-coney-island-boardwalk-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133212\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen drowns near Coney Island Boardwalk: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old man drowned off of Coney Island Beach this week, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p>A lifeguard spotted a man Wednesday floating in the water near the Coney Island Boardwalk and pulled the unconscious and unresponsive teen out of the water, <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/teen-drowns-off-coney-island-beach-nypd-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gothamist<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified 18-year-old was taken to Coney Island Hospital in critical condition and later pronounced dead, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36789494\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-even-pets-played-waters-105369200.jpg\" alt=\"Empty lifeguard chair on Coney Island beach.\" class=\"wp-image-36789494\"  \/>The teenager was pulled out of the water Wednesday by a heroic lifeguard but was unresponsive. Andrew Schwartz \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>The victim was spotted not far from the Coney Island Cyclone, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/08\/08\/teen-drowns-coney-island-brooklyn-near-famed-roller-coaster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is at least the third person to drown at a city beach this summer, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.43417367;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36789495\" width=\"846\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-even-pets-played-waters-105369193.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;No swimming&quot; flag on Coney Island beach.\" class=\"wp-image-36789495\"  \/>The body was spotted not far from the famed Coney Island Cyclone rollercoaster. Andrew Schwartz \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a pair of teenage girls also drowned at Coney Island Beach after they <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/05\/us-news\/nyc-drowning-leaves-2-teens-dead-in-waters-off-coney-island-in-brooklyn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ran into the water during a rain storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s Lake George ranks as the seventh most dangerous summer vacation spot, according to a recent study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old man drowned off of Coney Island Beach this week, the NYPD said. A lifeguard spotted a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6292,23097,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-133212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-coney-island","10":"tag-drownings","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-news","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115002016424326510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}