{"id":281409,"date":"2026-06-29T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281409\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:36:07","slug":"two-hospitalized-after-woman-unleashes-bear-spray-in-lower-manhattan-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281409\/","title":{"rendered":"Two hospitalized after woman unleashes bear spray in Lower Manhattan hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Image-6-29-26-at-1.38-PM.jpeg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lower Manhattan hotel where someone released bear spray\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Two hospitalized after woman unleashes bear spray in Lower Manhattan hotel 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are investigating after a woman dispersed bear spray inside of a Lower Manhattan hotel on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Google streetview <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are investigating why a woman dispersed bear spray inside a <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/manhattan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lower Manhattan<\/a> hotel on Monday morning and sickened numerous guests.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, the bizarre incident unfolded around 8 a.m. on June 29 inside the DoubleTree Hilton hotel at 8 Stone St. near Broadway. The FDNY and officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd1pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">1st Precinct<\/a> rushed to the lodgings after a large group of people had difficulty breathing.<\/p>\n<p>When first responders arrived, they found at least seven people suffering reactions from a chemical irritant. A 39-year-old female and a male victim were taken to a local hospital for evaluation.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with the investigation report that a woman unleashed the substance inside her room, and the chemical got into the ventilation system, injuring other occupants. Sources said all injuries were minor.<\/p>\n<p>Police wrote on social media that the incident stemmed from a dispute and that they had evacuated the building.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice are looking into the use of bear spray inside a hotel after a dispute, and guests have been evacuated from inside the building,\u201d an NYPD post on X read.\n<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made and the investigation remains ongoing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are investigating after a woman dispersed bear spray inside of a Lower Manhattan hotel on Monday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[107957,303,75,84,83,9,24,63,103,104],"class_list":["post-281409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-bear-spray","tag-crime","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281409","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=281409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}