{"id":237485,"date":"2026-05-20T00:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237485\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:14:23","slug":"woman-dies-after-falling-into-uncovered-manhattan-manhole-while-exiting-suv-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237485\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after falling into uncovered Manhattan manhole while exiting SUV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (TNND)  \u2014 A 56-year-old woman died after falling 10 feet into an uncovered manhole in New York City on Monday night while getting out of her vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Donike Gocaj of Briarcliff Manor, New York, had parked her Mercedes-Benz SUV at the corner of 52nd Street and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan just before 11:20 p.m., sources confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/woman-dies-after-falling-nyc-manhole\/story?id=133109814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found Gocaj unconscious and unresponsive. She was taken by ambulance to New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not said why the manhole was uncovered, but utility company Con Edison said it is &#8220;actively investigating&#8221; the incident. Sources said the manhole cover was found about 15 feet away.<\/p>\n<p>&#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.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s Office of Chief Medical Examiner will determine the official cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (TNND) \u2014 A 56-year-old woman died after falling 10 feet into an uncovered manhole in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-237485","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\/237485","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=237485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}