{"id":14228,"date":"2025-10-23T21:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14228\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T21:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:53:17","slug":"construction-worker-killed-in-fall-at-manhattan-gateway-tunnel-site-near-hudson-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14228\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction worker killed in fall at Manhattan Gateway tunnel site near Hudson Yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A construction worker was killed Thursday while working on a tunnel box that will take the Gateway rail tunnel under Hudson Yards in Manhattan, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said the worker fell from a high worksite location over the tunnel box concrete floor. All work was suspended on the Hudson Yards Concrete casing project while the incident is under investigation by Amtrak police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was an employee of the New York Concrete Corporation, one of the contractors working on the concrete tunnel box.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe Gateway Development Commission, Amtrak, and Related Companies extend our profound condolences to the family of the worker who suffered a fatal injury on the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing project today, Gateway Development Corporation officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Hudson Yards project is one of five projects for the larger $16 billion Gateway tunnel project between New Jersey and New York that more than 11,000 workers are currently building.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Larry Higgs\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b392c94a314894ef58d155c4d7536fa0.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larry Higgs<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2025\/10\/construction-worker-killed-in-fall-at-manhattan-gateway-tunnel-site-near-hudson-yards.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NJ.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NJ.com<\/a>. Add <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NJ.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NJ.com<\/a> as a Preferred Source by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=nj.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A construction worker was killed Thursday while working on a tunnel box that will take the Gateway rail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[10647,4208,75,84,83,9,24,10513,63],"class_list":["post-14228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-construction-worker","tag-hudson-yards","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-concrete-corporation","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228","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=14228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}