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The pair were accused in the city’s latest incident in which men climbed out of the sewer system about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday in Manhattan, according to a criminal complaint. The manhole was near the hotel<\/a> where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to stay while he attended the U.N. General Assembly.<\/p>\n The two men “identified themselves as the individuals that entered the manhole,” according to the court document. They said that they had entered the manhole together to look for valuables that had been washed away down storm drains, the document said.<\/p>\n They haven’t been charged in any other sewer instance, but New York Police said that the incident \u201cfits that same criteria\u201d as previous cases, NBC News reported.<\/p>\n Security cameras recorded multiple nighttime instances earlier this summer where groups of people entered or exited sewer tunnels via maintenance holes on streets in Brooklyn and Queens.<\/p>\n In one instance in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, a group of roughly seven people were recorded popping out of a maintenance hole. They wore headlamps and carried what appeared to be shovels and other tools. One narrowly missed getting run over by a vehicle as they pulled themselves out of the ground.<\/p>\n In another video, about seven people emerged from a maintenance hole around 2 a.m. on a quiet street in Brooklyn’s Gravesend neighborhood. They made their way to parked cars and pulled out fresh clothes to change into. Police said the group entered the sewers about 11 p.m., meaning they could have been underground for three hours.<\/p>\n In early May, three people dressed in waterproof hip waders and other protective gear pried open a maintenance hole cover and descended into the sewer on a street in Queens. The last person pulled the cover shut as approaching cars slowed to a stop.<\/p>\n