{"id":237374,"date":"2026-05-19T22:52:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237374\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:52:43","slug":"westchester-woman-killed-falling-into-open-manhattan-manhole-is-now-idd-as-briarcliff-manor-56-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237374\/","title":{"rendered":"Westchester Woman Killed Falling Into Open Manhattan Manhole Is Now ID&#8217;d As Briarcliff Manor 56-Year-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRIARCLIFF MANOR, NY \u2014 The woman who stepped into a manhole and fell to her death late Monday night in Manhattan has been identified by authorities. <\/p>\n<p>According to the NYPD, the 56-year-old woman, now identified as Donika Gocaj of Briarcliff Manor, had stepped out of a parked car at around 11:19 p.m. in front of 653 Fifth Ave., near East 52nd Street, when she fell into the open manhole.<\/p>\n<p>She was rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center where she was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are deeply saddened to confirm that a member of the public has died after falling into an open manhole,&#8221; Con Edison said in a statement. &#8220;We are actively investigating how this occurred. Our thoughts are with the individual&#8217;s family, and safety remains our top priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRIARCLIFF MANOR, NY \u2014 The woman who stepped into a manhole and fell to her death late Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-237374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237374","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=237374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}