{"id":238391,"date":"2026-05-20T19:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238391\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:31:14","slug":"what-happened-in-nyc-car-explosion-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238391\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened in NYC car explosion Tuesday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-05-20-150257.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A car was engulfed in flames in Lower Manhattan during Tuesday evening rush hour, sending thick smoke into the air as FDNY crews responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-05-20-150303.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The fire broke out near Broadway and Stone Street around 5:42 p.m., according to fire officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Video circulating on social media and the Citizen app showed the vehicle engulfed in flames, with thick smoke billowing into the air as some people ran and others gathered nearby to watch.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-05-20-150251.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FDNY crews worked to quickly extinguish the blaze.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No injuries were reported. Images from the aftermath showed the car completely torched, with severe damage left behind after the flames were put out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The incident was brought under control around 7p.m., according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The cause of the explosion remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report is based on information from FDNY.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/organization\/fdny\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FDNY<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article A car was engulfed in flames in Lower Manhattan during Tuesday evening rush hour, sending thick smoke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[850,194,9,24,12,63,848,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-238391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fdny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-organization","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238391","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=238391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}