Sources say a Briarcliff Manor woman died after falling into a manhole in Midtown Manhattan late Monday night.<\/p>\n
The incident happened just before 11:30 p.m. on 5th Avenue, police said.<\/p>\n
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
Gocaj was taken to Cornell Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson with Con Edison said surveillance video appears to show the cover of the manhole was removed by a multi-axel truck that drove over it 12 minutes before the victim appeared. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are reviewing the details, and while this is a rare occurrence, manhole covers can get displaced by heavy vehicles. Our thoughts remain with her family, and safety remains our top priority,” the spokesperson wrote.<\/p>\n
People in the area say they are shocked by the incident.<\/p>\n
“It’s really sad to know that happened,” said a community member. “I just pray for the family and everyone involved at this sad time.”<\/p>\n
The medical examiner will determine the exact cause of death.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n
Police have not officially released the victim’s 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.…\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-240295","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\/240295","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=240295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240295\/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=240295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}