{"id":126609,"date":"2026-02-08T04:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/126609\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:02:07","slug":"sheet-metal-debris-fall-from-con-ed-rooftop-in-manhattan-amid-high-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/126609\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheet metal, debris fall from Con Ed rooftop in Manhattan amid high winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debris and sheet metal panels rained down from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coned.com\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Con Edison facility<\/a> rooftop Saturday afternoon amid high winds in the current Arctic chill gripping the city, FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p>First responders rushed to the scene where debris fell from the structure around 3:50 p.m. near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Con+Edison\/@40.7720381,-73.9931809,19z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c2585cbe0ae6f9:0xde7acaeedb2f5b9e!8m2!3d40.7717425!4d-73.9920644!16s%2Fg%2F11csbfg42v?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIwNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">12th Ave. and W. 58th St.<\/a> in Hell\u2019s Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD shut down the street for around an hour as Con Edison and city Department of Buildings officials assessed the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The site is home to Con Edison\u2019s landmarked 59th St. Steam Station, which provides steam for hot water, heat and cooling to more than 1,500 Manhattan buildings.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The FDNY believed the fallen debris was caused by high winds as temperatures in the Big Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/07\/nyc-temp-below-freezing-mamdani-adds-more-warming-sites-beds-homeless\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dove close to zero degrees<\/a> with winds of 20 mph to 25 mph, with gusts up to 50 mph on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Debris and sheet metal panels rained down from a Con Edison facility rooftop Saturday afternoon amid high winds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254,"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-126609","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\/126609","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=126609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}