{"id":254363,"date":"2026-06-03T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254363\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:10:09","slug":"3-people-seen-climbing-into-queens-manhole-3rd-reported-incident-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254363\/","title":{"rendered":"3 People Seen Climbing Into Queens Manhole, 3rd Reported Incident In NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

QUEENS, NY \u2014 Three people were caught on video climbing into a manhole in Queens marking the third reported incident of individuals climbing into the city’s sewer system. <\/p>\n

The incident in Queens happened on May 5 on 250th Avenue in Astoria.<\/p>\n

Surveillance video from auto repair shop owner Aki Jakupovic shows the individuals with flashlights as they pry open the manhole cover and lower themselves in. <\/p>\n

“I knew they were up to no good,\u201d Jakupovic told NBC News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just looked up, look down and continued like I wasn\u2019t there. You know, I\u2019ve seen a lot of crazy stuff in New York, but this was really something.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other two reported incidents also occurred in May in Williamsburg and Gravesend, police said. <\/p>\n

At least seven people descended through a manhole near McDonald Avenue and Colin Place in Gravesend at about 11 p.m. on May 28, Patch previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Roughly three hours before the Gravesend group resurfaced, another eight people entered the sewer system through a manhole near Heyward Street and Bedford Avenue, about eight miles away<\/p>\n

Authorities said the group climbed out shortly before 4 a.m. and left the area in a vehicle.<\/p>\n

No arrests have been made in any of the incidents as of Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 Three people were caught on video climbing into a manhole in Queens marking the third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-254363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254363","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=254363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}