{"id":412332,"date":"2025-11-29T06:55:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/412332\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T06:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:55:27","slug":"woman-68-flung-into-midtown-building-in-random-thanksgiving-day-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/412332\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 68, flung into Midtown building in random Thanksgiving Day attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 68-year-old woman was hospitalized after she was elbowed from behind and knocked face-first into a Midtown building during an apparently random <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/11\/27\/multiple-nyc-shootings-wild-explosion-pre-thanksgiving-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thanksgiving Day<\/a> attack, police sources said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was walking along Fifth Ave. near W. 47th St. at about 8:43 p.m. Thursday when a man with a beard and ponytail stepped up behind her and elbowed her in the back, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The unsuspecting woman was knocked off balance and fell toward the building she was walking past, hitting the fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed her to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountsinai.org\/locations\/west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mount Sinai West<\/a> with deep cuts and scrapes to her face and head.<\/p>\n<p>The man who elbowed her, who was wearing a green jacket, black pants and was carrying a black backpack, ran off.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not believed the woman had any interaction with the man who elbowed her beforehand, a police source with knowledge of the case said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops on Friday were scouring the area for surveillance images of the attacker.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident is urged to call <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYPD Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 68-year-old woman was hospitalized after she was elbowed from behind and knocked face-first into a Midtown building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-412332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-sub-county-region","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115631681281173875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412332","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=412332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}