{"id":231133,"date":"2026-05-14T09:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/231133\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:40:29","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-george-washington-bridge-lower-level-reopens-after-debris-falls-on-cross-bronx-expresswaybxbk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/231133\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | George Washington Bridge Lower Level Reopens After Debris Falls On Cross Bronx Expresswaybxbk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The lower level of the George Washington Bridge reopened Thursday morning after it was forced to close due to fallen debris on the Cross-Bronx Expressway.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The incident happened around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. All westbound lanes leading to the bridge\u2019s lower level were shut down for hours.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials have not released details about what caused the debris to fall.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One person was hospitalized following the incident, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Crews were seen inspecting the area around 1 a.m. Thursday morning. Officials say traffic delays are expected.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This is not the first local incident involving fallen debris. Just last week, some fell from a building onto a car right before it reached the George Washington Bridge.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">MORE: <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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lower level of the George Washington Bridge reopened Thursday morning after it was forced to close due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-231133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231133","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=231133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}