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NEW YORK \u2014<\/p>\nVideo shows people climbing out of manhole in Manhattan<\/p>\n
NEW YORK \u2014<\/p>\n
New video shows people climbing out of a manhole in Midtown Manhattan, the latest of several similar incidents across New York City.<\/p>\n
Three people were seen emerging from a manhole after 4 a.m. Aug. 18. It happened on Seventh Avenue across from Madison Square Garden and Penn Station.<\/p>\n
The man who filmed the video said at least five people came out, but he caught the last three.<\/p>\n
“I was kind of in shock that this was real, and it was something I was really witnessing, cause it’s usually something you see on TV or something,” he said. <\/p>\n
He said he didn’t see them leave with anything in their hands, but “they looked professional, like they knew what they were doing.”<\/p>\n
Back in May, similar incidents took place with people wearing waders and using headlamps and car lights to guide them. The incidents happened in Flatbush, Williamsburg and Queens. <\/p>\n
Police sources say these may be treasure hunters or urban explorers. They said they don’t believe there’s any connection to terrorism.<\/p>\n
The city’s Department of Environmental Protection said it inspected the sewers at the Midtown location. They said the infrastructure is safe, but entering the sewer system is illegal and dangerous.<\/p>\n
“Sewers can contain numerous hazards, including noxious and potentially deadly gases, unstable surfaces, flooding risks, and confined spaces. For these reasons, members of the public should never enter a pipe, drain, catch basin, manhole, or outfall,” a statement read.<\/p>\n
The NYPD said it is actively investigating.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made in this incident. In July, two people were arrested after one of the May manhole incidents in Brooklyn and charged with criminal trespass. In a similar 2025 incident in Brooklyn, several men faced criminal mischief and burglary charges after they were caught climbing into a manhole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video shows people climbing out of manhole in Manhattan NEW YORK \u2014 New video shows people climbing out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,69188,13357,38164,1873,2707,27460,8639,75,35905,3411,9,24,55,54,99656,56,62024,1232,123804,123803,122,123805,35906,1115,35477,1962,1424],"class_list":["post-329343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-catch-basin","tag-department","tag-drain","tag-flatbush","tag-incident","tag-ldnd","tag-man","tag-manhattan","tag-manhole","tag-migrants","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-city-sewers","tag-ny","tag-overalls","tag-people","tag-people-climbing-out-of-manhole","tag-people-in-sewer","tag-queens","tag-several-similar-incident","tag-sewer","tag-video","tag-viral-video","tag-weird-news","tag-williamsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329343","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=329343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}