A group of people seen climbing out of a manhole near Penn Station has raised questions about what happened below the street, with the NYPD investigating how they got into the sewer system.<\/p>\n
The video was recorded early Tuesday near West 32nd Street and Seventh Avenue, according to police. It shows several people emerging from a manhole across from Penn Station.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere are they coming from? What are they doing down there?\u201d one man outside Penn Station said.<\/p>\n
The NYPD said it is investigating the incident. Police have not announced any arrests and have not said whether the people seen in the video have been identified.<\/p>\n
The incident is not the first time people have been captured on video inside New York City’s underground infrastructure. Earlier this year, a video in Queens showed another group underground. Police described those people as migrants who appeared to be scavenging.<\/p>\n
Police have not said the two incidents are connected.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just feel like it\u2019s not safe because if people have access to it, who knows what else is going on down there?\u201d Manhattan resident Dylon Vanhorne said.<\/p>\n
The unusual activity has also raised concerns about security beneath the city’s streets.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s obviously serious security concerns,\u201d Brooklyn resident Elihu Conant-Haqut said.<\/p>\n
While police have not identified any specific threats, retired FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko said the circumstances warrant a closer look.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll have to figure out what they\u2019re doing because it\u2019s New York City, and there\u2019s always concern that if somebody has some ill intent,\u201d Kolko said.<\/p>\n
Kolko said investigators will want to determine who the people are, why they were underground and whether they have entered the sewer system before.<\/p>\n
He also urged New Yorkers to report suspicious activity.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you see something, say something,\u201d Kolko said.<\/p>\n
The Department of Environmental Protection said it inspected the sewer near the location and found the infrastructure to be safe.<\/p>\n
But the agency warned that entering the sewer system is illegal and extremely dangerous. Potential hazards include deadly gases, flooding and confined spaces.<\/p>\n
The NYPD said it is reviewing security camera footage from nearby buildings as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of people seen climbing out of a manhole near Penn Station has raised questions about what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[10015,387,25,303,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,308,27,200],"class_list":["post-329200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-crime","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-crime","tag-louis-finley","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329200","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=329200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}