{"id":303878,"date":"2026-07-23T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303878\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:42:12","slug":"large-sinkhole-opens-on-yonkers-road-after-sewer-collapses-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303878\/","title":{"rendered":"Large sinkhole opens on Yonkers road after sewer collapses underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old brick sewer collapsed under a street in Yonkers, opening up a big sinkhole Thursday morning. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hole is about 5 feet wide in an industrial area on Nepperhan Avenue. City officials say all northbound lanes on the road are closed from Ashburton to Axminster while crews work on repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Video from the scene shows the gaping hole with crews working to redirect traffic and fix the road. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/yonkers-sewer-collapse-wcbsiir9-hi-res-still.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"yonkers-sewer-collapse-wcbsiir9-hi-res-still.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A large sinkhole opened up in Yonkers after a sewer collapsed underground on July 23, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are asked to plan alternate routes as the work will be ongoing through the evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials said crews are working with engineering and have pumps on scene &#8220;keeping everything flowing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An old brick sewer collapsed under a street in Yonkers, opening up a big sinkhole Thursday morning. \u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,1628,3048],"class_list":["post-303878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-westchester-county","tag-yonkers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303878","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=303878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}