{"id":237764,"date":"2026-05-20T07:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237764\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:26:30","slug":"woman-dies-after-falling-into-open-manhole-in-manhattan-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237764\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after falling into open manhole in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman has died after falling down an uncovered manhole near a Cartier<\/a> store in Manhattan<\/a>, police said. \u200b<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old plunged 10 feet on Monday night after stepping out of her parked Mercedes-Benz SUV, at East 52nd Street and 5th Avenue.<\/p>\n

The New York Police Department<\/a> told CBS News<\/a> that the incident unfolded at around 11.20 p.m. When officers arrived at the scene they found the woman unconscious and unresponsive, the network reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The woman from Westchester County was rushed to New York Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell Medical Center<\/a>, where she died from her injuries. \u200b<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A 56-year-old woman fell to her death down a manhole near in Midtown Manhattan (CBS News)<\/p>\n

CBS News reported that the as-yet-unnamed woman\u2019s family returned to the scene Tuesday morning, to try and understand how the accident happened.\u200b<\/p>\n

Her daughter-in-law was \u201cvisibly shaking\u201d when a journalist from the network spoke to her, CBS News reported. She said that the tragedy was \u201cso fresh\u201d and claimed that there had been \u201cno warning signs or barriers\u201d around the manhole. \u200b<\/p>\n

Video footage obtained by the network showed a Mercedes parked in the street, with a manhole both covered and cordoned off. The manhole appeared to be around 1-2 feet from the driver\u2019s side door.<\/p>\n

The NYPD told People<\/a> that the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the woman\u2019s cause of death and that her identity is being withheld until her family is properly notified.<\/p>\n

\u200bEnergy company Con Edison told ABC 7 <\/a>that it is investigating why the manhole was left uncovered.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The woman plummeted around 10-feet after falling into the manhole near Cartier on Fifth Avenue (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

“We are deeply saddened to confirm that a member of the public has died after falling into an open manhole,\u201d a company spokesperson told the outlet. \u201cWe are actively investigating how this occurred.\u200b<\/p>\n

\u201cOur thoughts are with the individual’s family, and safety remains our top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Independent has contacted Con Edison, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the NYPD for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has died after falling down an uncovered manhole near a Cartier store in Manhattan, police said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,92739,3412,9,24,15454,63,92631],"class_list":["post-237764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mercedes-benz-suv","tag-midtown-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-police-department","tag-nyc","tag-open-manhole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237764","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=237764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}