{"id":281256,"date":"2026-06-29T16:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281256\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:35:08","slug":"lower-manhattan-hotel-evacuated-over-bear-spray-incident-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281256\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Manhattan hotel evacuated over bear spray incident \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lower Manhattan hotel was evacuated Monday after bear spray was released during an argument, according to police.  <\/p>\n<p>Authorities responded to the Doubletree on Stone Street, between Broad and Whitehall streets, after getting reports of noxious fumes around 8:15 a.m. The evacuation was ordered after first responders arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 4 showed a heavy emergency presence at the scene. The NYPD says the irritant was sprayed during a dispute in the hotel, though it wasn&#8217;t clear where in the hotel it happened. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were evaluating an unknown number of patients at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD and its Emergency Services Unit were on the scene. Operations were ongoing into mid-morning.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Due to police activity, please avoid the vicinity of Broadway and Stone Street in lower Manhattan. <\/p>\n<p>Police are looking into the use of bear spray inside a hotel after a dispute, and guests have been evacuated from inside the building. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TjbCRoqtuD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/TjbCRoqtuD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2071589354510672285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lower Manhattan hotel was evacuated Monday after bear spray was released during an argument, according to police.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-281256","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\/281256","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=281256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}