{"id":237523,"date":"2026-05-20T00:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237523\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:57:43","slug":"news-12-westchester-56-year-old-woman-dies-after-falling-into-uncovered-manhole-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237523\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | 56 Year Old Woman Dies After Falling Into Uncovered Manhole In Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sources say a Briarcliff Manor woman died after falling into a manhole in Midtown Manhattan late Monday night.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The incident happened just before 11:30 p.m. on 5th Avenue, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sources have identified the victim as 56-year-old Donika Gocaj. Police say the woman stepped out of her car and walked into an uncovered manhole. They said she was unconscious and unresponsive when officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Gocaj was taken to Cornell Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The medical examiner will determine the exact cause of death.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have not officially released her name. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sources say a Briarcliff Manor woman died after falling into a manhole in Midtown Manhattan late Monday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-237523","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\/237523","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=237523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}