{"id":147420,"date":"2026-02-27T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147420\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:45:07","slug":"tribeca-manhole-explosion-injures-2-kids-and-woman-nyc-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147420\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribeca manhole explosion injures 2 kids and woman, NYC officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"veslg\">Two young children and a woman were injured in Lower Manhattan on Thursday afternoon when a manhole cover blew off the street, according to New York City public safety officials.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"617lt\">Police said they responded to the incident just before 4 p.m. near the intersection of Warren and Church streets in Tribeca.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"67bs6\">The 4-year-old boy, 2-year-old girl and 57-year-old woman all sustained various burns, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7k6d1\">They were taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"83gpr\">The FDNY said the incident was one of three blown manhole covers in the area around the same time.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7o6pl\">According to Con Edison, there were no reports of customer outages related to the incident, and crews were able to make repairs.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ckakm\">Experts say manhole explosions are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2020\/02\/24\/it-s-manhole-explosion-season-what-you-need-to-know-about-a-century-old-problem\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">more common in the winter,<\/a> when snowmelt mixed with abrasive road salt can damage old wiring and aging electrical infrastructure, leading to combustion in some cases.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fv2v\">The blasts can result in injuries, fires, property damage and the release of toxic gases like carbon monoxide.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7299f\">City and Con Ed officials did not immediately describe the causes of the Tribeca manhole explosions.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3hcvk\">Andrew Giambrone contributed reporting. This story is based on preliminary information from city officials and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two young children and a woman were injured in Lower Manhattan on Thursday afternoon when a manhole cover&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-147420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147420","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=147420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}