{"id":238519,"date":"2026-05-20T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238519\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:58:08","slug":"explosions-pop-from-flaming-car-on-manhattan-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238519\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosions Pop From Flaming Car on Manhattan Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A vehicle caught fire and burned dramatically in New York\u2019s Financial District on Tuesday, May 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video filmed by Thomas Waga shows the car engulfed in flames just outside the Bowling Green subway station, sending clouds of black smoke billowing down Broadway. Several small explosions could be heard as the fire raged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:ABC 7;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/car-catches-fire-explodes-charging-bull-statue-lower-manhattan\/19136622\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ABC 7<\/a> reported the vehicle \u201cappeared to be MTA-affiliated\u201d and the fire was extinguished by the FDNY around 7 pm local time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire was unknown. Credit: Thomas Waga via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle caught fire and burned dramatically in New York\u2019s Financial District on Tuesday, May 19. Video filmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[93216,75,84,83,9,24,63,93217],"class_list":["post-238519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-bowling-green-subway-station","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-thomas-waga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238519","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=238519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}