{"id":236875,"date":"2026-05-19T16:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236875\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:29:09","slug":"woman-dies-after-falling-into-new-york-city-manhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236875\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after falling into New York City manhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 56-year-old Westchester County woman plunged to her death after stepping out of her car into an open manhole in Midtown Manhattan on Monday, sources told ABC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The woman, identified as Donike Gocaj of Briarcliff Manor, New York, parked her car at West 52 Street and Fifth Avenue just before 11:20 p.m. Monday, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/security-guard-islamic-center-san-diego-hailed-hero\/story?id=133101287\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Security guard at Islamic Center of San Diego hailed as a hero;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Security guard at Islamic Center of San Diego hailed as a hero&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Security guard at Islamic Center of San Diego hailed as a hero<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She stepped out of her Mercedes-Benz SUV and into an uncovered manhole, falling about 10 feet, sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The woman was rushed to New York Presbyterian Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Georgeclerk\/STOCK PHOTO\/Getty Images - PHOTO: Stock photo of a manhole in Manhattan.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"606\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9f31ed69e5aa874f1998d310a2be8ae0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Georgeclerk\/STOCK PHOTO\/Getty Images &#8211; PHOTO: Stock photo of a manhole in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No construction was ongoing, and the manhole cover was discovered about 15 feet away from the opening, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/International\/drc-ebola-outbreak-affecting-small-number-americans-cdc\/story?id=133061121\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:American doctor tests positive for Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo outbreak;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;American doctor tests positive for Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo outbreak&quot;}\" class=\"link \">American doctor tests positive for Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo outbreak<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Con Edison said it is &#8220;actively investigating&#8221; the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We are deeply saddened to confirm that a member of the public has died after falling into an open manhole. We are actively investigating how this occurred. Our thoughts are with the individual&#8217;s family, and safety remains our top priority,&#8221; Con Edison said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 56-year-old Westchester County woman plunged to her death after stepping out of her car into an open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[92695,1168,3412,9,24,55,54,22196,56,92631,1628],"class_list":["post-236875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-briarcliff-manor","tag-con-edison","tag-midtown-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-presbyterian-hospital","tag-ny","tag-open-manhole","tag-westchester-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236875","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=236875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}