{"id":205332,"date":"2026-04-21T22:28:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205332\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:28:37","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-leak-in-sidewalk-causes-river-like-flood-in-gravesend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205332\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Leak In Sidewalk Causes River Like Flood In Gravesend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors are now sounding the alarm after a leak in the sidewalk has caused water to stream down the street for weeks in Gravesend.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 cameras captured the leak on West 11th Street. The water is coming out of the curb and flows nearly the entire length of the corridor from Avenue V to Avenue W.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors say it has been going on for almost a month and is making it difficult to travel.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Just being able to cross the street and go over like a river in a way,&#8221; neighbor Dupree McCullen said. &#8220;It\u2019s been tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It has also been hard for residents like Miguel Gomez, who have had to navigate the water with his wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIt\u2019s bad,&#8221; Gomez said, &#8220;because this chair can\u2019t get wet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He says he has had to go out of his way to cross the street in dry areas.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The water is also accumulating into a puddle that measures more than 2 inches in depth.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 reached out to the city&#8217;s Department of Environmental Protection after seeing the leak. A spokesperson for DEP says the agency is &#8220;aware of the issue&#8221; and repairs are scheduled for Wednesday, April 22.<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neighbors are now sounding the alarm after a leak in the sidewalk has caused water to stream down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-205332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205332","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=205332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}