Three people were spotted climbing out of a Brooklyn manhole early Friday \u2013 adding to a bizarre string of citywide sewer-diving incidents, cops said.<\/p>\n
The sketchy trio emerged from the steamy pit at Bay Ridge Parkway and 17th Avenue in Bensonhurst around 4:30 a.m., catching the eye of a bystander who called 911, police said.<\/p>\n
But the group of men \u2013 spotted wearing bright clothing \u2013\u00a0 were already in the wind by the time cops arrived and no arrests were made, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The trio emerged from the manhole at Bay Ridge Parkway and 17th Avenue are shown in Bensonhurst. Google Maps<\/p>\n
The investigation was ongoing, police said.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear whether the three underground criminals were also connected to any of the previous manhole incursions across the city.<\/p>\n
In another incident just two days ago, three nightcrawlers embarked on a pre-dawn sewer escapade steps<\/a> from the Upper East Side\u2019s Loews Regency New York \u2013 where dignitaries including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were staying during the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n Kevin Rodriguez, 26, and Samuel Reveron, 25 \u2013 both Queens residents and Venezuelan citizens \u2013 were arrested in connection to that stunt, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n Reveron laid out the greedy underground intruders\u2019 motive when speaking with investigators, prosecutors said Friday.<\/p>\n \u201cWe go into the sewers to look for valuables that go into the sewer drains,\u201d he allegedly told a police officer, specifying that they hoped to find \u201cgold,\u201d according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n Three people climbed out of a sewer on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side near 535 Park Ave. at East 61st Street before fleeing in two vehicles on Wednesday, September 23, 2026. WABC<\/p>\n The NYPD is probing a video of people emerging from a New York City manhole on August 21, 2026. ricardyfabre\/TikTok<\/p>\n NYC Police Emergency Service officers conduct an operation examining a manhole at Bedford Avenue and Lynch Street in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, Friday, May 29, 2026. David Burns\/@FD4D for NY Post<\/p>\n A federal law-enforcement source briefed on the matter said that neither suspect appeared to have had malicious intent or posed any threat to the dignitaries staying at the hotel.<\/p>\n This year alone, elusive \u201cmole people\u201d were spotted popping out of manholes<\/a> in Middle Village, Queens, Williamsburg and Gravesend in Brooklyn \u2013 and even near Manhattan\u2019s bustling Penn Station<\/a> and Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people were spotted climbing out of a Brooklyn manhole early Friday \u2013 adding to a bizarre string…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3283,98,100,99,75,57,9,24,63,58],"class_list":["post-356883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-arrests","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356883","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=356883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}