{"id":355113,"date":"2026-09-23T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355113\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:18:09","slug":"three-seen-exiting-manhole-near-nyc-hotel-where-netanyahu-staying-for-unga-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355113\/","title":{"rendered":"Three seen exiting manhole near NYC hotel where Netanyahu staying for UNGA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three men were seen early Wednesday emerging from a Park Ave. manhole near the Upper East Side hotel where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be staying during the United Nations General Assembly<\/a>, police said.<\/p>\n

Surveillance video captured the black-clad trio exiting the manhole at Park Ave. and E. 61st St. around 4:30 a.m., cops said. Police believe the trespassers went underground shortly before through a subway access gate at E. 63rd St. and Fifth Ave.<\/p>\n

The suspects then fled uptown in two vehicles on Park Ave. and have not been caught, police said.<\/p>\n

Police believe the three trespassers are Urban Explorers. There was no indication of a threat against Netanyahu, who is scheduled to address the General Assembly Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen a number of incidents over the past few months of individuals going into the sewer system to look for valuables and other scrap metal after a storm,\u201d the NYPD said in a statement. \u201cThis incident fits that same criteria, but out of an abundance of caution given the U.N. General Assembly and the sensitivity of the location, the NYPD is conducting additional security sweeps with our federal partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNYPD has a robust response to these incidents, which were deployed overnight and additional measures today,\u201d the department added.<\/p>\n

The underground trespassing is the latest in a string of similar incidents<\/a>, including a May 28 intrusion through a Brooklyn manhole<\/a> that led to two arrests.<\/p>\n

Anthoni Jose Navas Arias, 36, and Taylor Javier Parra Alviares, 39, were arrested on June 28 and charged with criminal trespass for delving into the sewers beneath McDonald Ave. near Colin Place in Gravesend.<\/p>\n

The suspects were among a group of men spotted removing the sewer manhole cover around 1 a.m. and then exiting nearly three hours later.<\/p>\n

The trespassers then fled the scene in an unknown vehicle. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men were seen early Wednesday emerging from a Park Ave. manhole near the Upper East Side hotel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83102,85,7299,86,9,12,56,63,65,64,87,1076],"class_list":["post-355113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-crime-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nation","tag-national-politics","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-politics","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355113","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=355113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}