{"id":120310,"date":"2026-02-02T18:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120310\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:30:26","slug":"dog-electrocuted-killed-by-third-rail-after-breaking-free-from-owner-in-manhattan-subway-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120310\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog electrocuted, killed by third rail after breaking free from owner in Manhattan subway stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dog broke free from its owner in a lower Manahttan subway station Monday morning, jumped onto the tracks and died when it made contact with the electrified third rail, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The dog, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akc.org\/dog-breeds\/chow-chow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chow chow<\/a> named Meatball, died in front of horrified morning commuters waching helplessly from the uptown platform at the Bowling Green station about 9:40 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The dog somehow got loose from its owner before making its fateful leap onto the tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dog broke free from its owner in a lower Manahttan subway station Monday morning, jumped onto the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-120310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120310","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=120310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}