{"id":332193,"date":"2026-08-28T21:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332193\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T21:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:24:43","slug":"man-sets-himself-on-fire-inside-google-office-building-in-downtown-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332193\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sets himself on fire inside Google office building in downtown Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man set himself on fire inside a building containing offices for Google in Downtown Manhattan Friday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The man, believed to be in his 60s, walked into the Hudson St. building near Spring St. in Hudson Square and set himself on fire just before 3 p.m., according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the man to a local hospital in stable condition. There were no other injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police investigate after a man allegedly set himself on fire outside a building on Hudson St. in Manhattan on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"8640\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TNY02585.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9204469\" \/>Police investigate after a man allegedly set himself on fire outside a building on Hudson St. in Manhattan on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD set up a crime scene that extended outside the building\u2019s front door, where a singed backpack was spotted lying just off the curb.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are still working to determine the man\u2019s motive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police investigate after a man allegedly set himself on fire outside a building on Hudson St. in Manhattan on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"8640\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TNY02657.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9204471\" \/>Police investigate after a man allegedly set himself on fire outside a building on Hudson St. in Manhattan on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>The building, in which Google is the largest tenant, is part of Google\u2019s larger Hudson Square campus, which also includes a much bigger building, at 550 Washington St., several blocks to the west, on the site of the former St. John\u2019s Terminal. Google also has another major hub in New York City in Chelsea on Eighth Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man set himself on fire inside a building containing offices for Google in Downtown Manhattan Friday, cops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[32761,4685,75,84,83,9,24,63,109434,125001],"class_list":["post-332193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-downtown-manhattan","tag-google","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-self-immolation","tag-set-self-on-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332193","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=332193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}