{"id":237433,"date":"2026-05-19T23:33:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237433\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T23:33:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:33:53","slug":"woman-dies-after-stepping-out-of-car-falling-into-manhole-outside-manhattan-cartier-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237433\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after stepping out of car, falling into manhole outside Manhattan Cartier store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 56-year-old Westchester woman was killed after stepping out of her Mercedes-Benz late Monday in midtown\u00a0and falling into an uncovered manhole, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD said the incident occurred\u00a0on Fifth\u00a0Avenue, not far from the Cartier store.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not released the identity of the victim, pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to a\u00a0911 call at 11:19 p.m. and\u00a0found the victim, unconscious and unresponsive, inside the uncovered Con Edison manhole.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was transported to New York-Presbyterian \/ Weill-Cornell Medical Center, where she died, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Con Ed and the NYPD are investigating why the hole was uncovered, but police said it&#8217;s possible it might\u00a0have been knocked off by a passing truck.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information was not immediately available on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"John Valenti\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"88\" height=\"104\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779233633_379_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>John Valenti, a Newsday reporter since 1981, has been honored nationally by the Associated Press, Society of the Silurians and National Headliner Awards for investigative, enterprise and breaking news reporting, as well as column writing. He is the author of \u201cSwee&#8217;pea,\u201d about New York playground basketball star Lloyd Daniels. His debut crime novel, \u201cFor Nothing Is Hidden,\u201d rooted in 1950s Long Island, was released in October 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 56-year-old Westchester woman was killed after stepping out of her Mercedes-Benz late Monday in midtown\u00a0and falling into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-237433","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\/237433","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=237433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}