{"id":230078,"date":"2026-05-13T16:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230078\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:14:07","slug":"news-12-bronx-debris-incident-closes-westbound-lower-level-lanes-to-george-washington-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230078\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Debris Incident Closes Westbound Lower Level Lanes To George Washington Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Closures are in place after debris fell from the ceiling onto a westbound lane of the Cross-Bronx Expressway near the George Washington Bridge around 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">All westbound lanes leading to the bridge\u2019s lower level are shut down until the roadway is determined to be safe.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">RELATED: <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/hudsonvalley.news12.com\/2026\/05\/10\/car-damaged-by-falling-debris-on-cross-bronx-expressway\/QqBdLj9jhvVzQJ39Vh2nF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Car damaged by falling debris on Cross Bronx Expressway<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Gov. Mikie Sherrill said she has been briefed on the reports. \u201cThe Port Authority is investigating the incident and will undertake any necessary repairs immediately,\u201d Sherrill said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials said they received an incident report around 8:30 a.m. and have not released details about what caused the debris to fall.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Travelers headed to the 181st Street exit are being directed to the Jerome Ave. and Major Deegan exits, officials said. The 181st Street exit is closed as of late Thursday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Closures are in place after debris fell from the ceiling onto a westbound lane of the Cross-Bronx Expressway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-230078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230078","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=230078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}