{"id":16298,"date":"2025-10-25T14:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/16298\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T14:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:57:22","slug":"construction-worker-falls-50-feet-to-his-death-at-hudson-yards-gateway-project-tunnel-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/16298\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction worker falls 50 feet to his death at Hudson Yards Gateway Project tunnel site"},"content":{"rendered":"

A carpenter working on the Hudson River Tunnel fell 50 feet to his death<\/a> at the project\u2019s Manhattan work site Thursday, officials said.<\/p>\n

The victim, a union carpenter with the New York Concrete Corp., fell near W. 30th St. and 11th Ave. in the Hudson Yards shortly before 9 a.m. He was working on the third section of the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing<\/a>, a large subterranean chamber that will link Penn Station to two new rail tubes beneath the Hudson River.<\/p>\n

\"AA construction worker was critically injured and later died on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, after falling into a hole at the Gateway Tunnel site near W. 30th St. and 11th Ave. in Hudson Yards. (Phil O’Brien \/ W42ST.nyc)<\/p>\n

The victim was transported to a nearby hospital, where he died, an FDNY spokesman said. His name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Gateway Development Commission, Amtrak and Related Companies extend our profound condolences to the family of the worker,\u201d a joint statement said. \u201cOur thoughts are with his loved ones during this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA construction worker was critically injured and later died on Thursday after falling at the Gateway Tunnel site near W. 30th St. and 11th Ave. in Hudson Yards. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The section of casing is being constructed in a deep trench west of 11th Ave. FDNY Battalion Chief Anthony Romano told reporters the man was found at the bottom of the construction pit. \u201cThe construction worker was working approximately 50 feet up on the northern wall,\u201d Romano said. \u201cIt was a foundation wall that was poured yesterday. We do not know how or why he fell.\u201d<\/p>\n

All work on the concrete casing was suspended while the incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n

\"AA construction worker fell to his death Thursday at the Gateway Tunnel site near W. 30th St. and 11th Ave. in the Hudson Yards. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no words strong enough to express the pain and sadness we all feel,\u201d Paul Capurso, executive secretary-treasurer for the NYC District Council of Carpenters, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was more than a carpenter,\u201d Capurso said, without identifying the deceased man. \u201cHe was part of our family, a brother who stood shoulder to shoulder with us every day to build something bigger than ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tunnel<\/a> \u2014 which has recently become embroiled in an ongoing funding battle<\/a> between President Trump and elected officials in New York and New Jersey \u2014 is the centerpiece of the sweeping Gateway Project<\/a> meant to double the rail lines across the New Jersey Meadowlands and into New York Penn Station.<\/p>\n

The victim is the second worker to fall to his death in Manhattan this week. A window washer plummeted more than 70 feet<\/a> when his safety harness snapped while working at Columbia University\u2019s School of Nursing in Washington Heights Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Originally Published: October 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A carpenter working on the Hudson River Tunnel fell 50 feet to his death at the project\u2019s Manhattan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[266,85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,134,136,135,608],"class_list":{"0":"post-16298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-county","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-staten-island","18":"tag-staten-island-headlines","19":"tag-staten-island-news","20":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16298","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=16298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}