{"id":312918,"date":"2026-08-03T22:26:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312918\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:26:44","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-repairs-continue-to-fix-sinkhole-in-brownsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312918\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Repairs Continue To Fix Sinkhole In Brownsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A major sinkhole continues to disrupt traffic in Brownsville one week after opening.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A stretch of Livonia Avenue near Watkins Street remains partially blocked off. Crews have been on the scene since it happened, making repairs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Residents say it&#8217;s not the first time a sinkhole has popped up in the area, leaving some wondering if the street will ever be safe.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand. Like, they repair the street, but why is it sinking so fast?&#8221; asked one resident. &#8220;They repairing it or they just rushing jobs on it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A spokesperson for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection told News 12 that crews and an emergency contractor continue to excavate the site as repairs are underway.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">There&#8217;s no word on when the sinkhole will be fully repaired, but DEP previously noted it could take a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major sinkhole continues to disrupt traffic in Brownsville one week after opening. A stretch of Livonia Avenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-312918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312918","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=312918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}