{"id":248314,"date":"2026-05-29T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/248314\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T23:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:21:08","slug":"cops-investigate-after-7-men-seen-exiting-brooklyn-manhole-in-dead-of-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/248314\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops investigate after 7 men seen exiting Brooklyn manhole in dead of night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after puzzling footage posted online shows a group of men emerging from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/05\/19\/woman-steps-into-open-manhole-in-midtown-falls-to-her-death\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a manhole<\/a> in Brooklyn early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YWNReporter\/status\/2060406768761549199?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Video obtained by the Flatbush Scoop<\/a> shows seven men climbing out of the manhole under the elevated F train tracks on McDonald Ave. near Colin Place in Gravesend shortly after 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Before the group emerges onto the street, the video shows an eighth man already topside exit a nearby parked car and walk into the street toward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/05\/20\/woman-who-fell-into-uncovered-manhole-in-midtown-manhattan-died-of-intense-heat-and-trauma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the manhole<\/a>, where he appears to alert the men below that it\u2019s safe to climb up.<\/p>\n<p>Once they get onto the sidewalk, the men, some wearing masks, can be seen dropping equipment and stripping off a layer of clothes, gloves and, in some cases, waders held up by suspenders.<\/p>\n<p>An NYPD spokesman confirmed police are investigating the incident, but said there is no cause for public alarm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after puzzling footage posted online shows a group of men emerging from a manhole in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-248314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248314","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=248314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}