{"id":238575,"date":"2026-05-20T21:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238575\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:38:42","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-sinkhole-at-laguardia-airport-shuts-down-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238575\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Sinkhole At Laguardia Airport Shuts Down Runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A sinkhole discovered during a routine inspection of the airfield at LaGuardia Airport forced the shutdown of a runway.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The hole was found near Runway 4\/22 at approximately 11 a.m. Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Airport officials say crews are on site carrying out emergency repairs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The cause of the sinkhole is currently unknown.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is expected to give updates on the situation as they are in communication with airlines and airport partners.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">LaGuardia officials also say travelers should expect delays and cancellations in part due to the thunderstorm forecasted later in the day Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Travelers can check <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laguardiaairport.com\/flights?direction=departures&amp;showAllFlights=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for the latest flight status.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sinkhole discovered during a routine inspection of the airfield at LaGuardia Airport forced the shutdown of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-238575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238575","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=238575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}