{"id":47414,"date":"2025-11-21T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47414\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:38:14","slug":"midtown-parking-garage-explosion-injures-2-women-one-critically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47414\/","title":{"rendered":"Midtown parking garage explosion injures 2 women, one critically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two young women were hospitalized, one with critical injuries, when the cover to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/explosion-manhattan-midtown-parking-garage\/6421461\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">air vent inside a Midtown parking garage<\/a> mysteriously exploded, sending chunks of debris in their direction, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>FDNY officials believe the explosion may have been sparked by a generator malfunction inside the building.<\/p>\n<p>The two victims, both 25, were inside the parking garage on E. 53rd St. near Lexington Ave. at about 9 p.m. Thursday when the blast occurred.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Two women were hospitalized after the cover to an air vent (pictured) for a Midtown Manhattan parking garage on E. 53rd St. near Lexington Ave. exploded, sending chunks of debris in their direction, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"1313\" height=\"876\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TNY-P4-20251121-091503.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8606473\" \/>Two women were hospitalized after the cover to an air vent (pictured) for a Midtown Manhattan parking garage on E. 53rd St. near Lexington Ave. exploded, sending chunks of debris in their direction, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>The cover to an air vent blew off, striking the two women as they walked through the garage, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Witness Carlos Nanez saw <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/morning\/scary-woman-fighting-for-her-life-after-nyc-parking-garage-explodes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the vent fly through the air<\/a> before crashing into the unsuspecting women. He rushed over and found one of the victims lying on the floor, not moving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was scary, it was very scary,\u201d he told WPIX 11 News. \u201cThe first thing I did was call EMS, I called 911, for the girls because I saw the girl was not responding, not moving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Blood is pictured directly across the street from the explosion, where the two women were struck by debris. Two women were hospitalized after the cover to an air vent for a Midtown Manhattan parking garage on E. 53rd St. near Lexington Ave. exploded, sending chunks of debris in their direction, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"4904\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TNY-P9-20251121-091942.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8606476\" \/>Blood is pictured directly across the street from the explosion, where the two women were struck by debris. Two women were hospitalized after the cover to an air vent for a Midtown Manhattan parking garage on E. 53rd St. near Lexington Ave. exploded, sending chunks of debris in their direction, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>EMS took the two women to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/locations\/newyork-presbyterian-weill-cornell-medical-center?utm_source=yextgmb&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=yext_doctor_listings&amp;y_source=1_MTM4MTIwMzQtNzE1LWxvY2F0aW9uLndlYnNpdGU=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center<\/a>, where one was initially listed in critical condition, an FDNY spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>FDNY <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joinfdny.com\/careers\/fire-marshal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fire Marshals<\/a> have been tasked with determining the cause of the explosion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Two women were hospitalized after the cover to an air vent for a Midtown Manhattan parking garage on E. 53rd St. near Lexington Ave. exploded, sending chunks of debris in their direction, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TNY-P7-20251121-091913.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8606479\" \/>Two women were hospitalized after the cover to an air vent for a Midtown Manhattan parking garage on E. 53rd St. near Lexington Ave. exploded, sending chunks of debris in their direction, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Two women were hospitalized after the cover to an air vent for a Midtown Manhattan parking garage on E. 53rd St. near Lexington Ave. exploded, sending chunks of debris in their direction, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TNY-P14-20251121-092529.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8606481\" \/>Two women were hospitalized after the cover to an air vent for a Midtown Manhattan parking garage on E. 53rd St. near Lexington Ave. exploded, sending chunks of debris in their direction, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two young women were hospitalized, one with critical injuries, when the cover to an air vent inside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-47414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47414","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=47414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}