{"id":47602,"date":"2025-11-21T18:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47602\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:20:11","slug":"2-women-hurt-1-critically-after-generator-explodes-in-nyc-parking-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47602\/","title":{"rendered":"2 women hurt \u2014 1 critically \u2014 after generator explodes in NYC parking garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two women were hurt \u2014 one critically \u2014 after a generator exploded at a Midtown parking garage on Thursday night, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The generator <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/07\/us-news\/nyc-car-explosion-that-injured-7-firefighters-was-caused-by-cigarette-butt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blew up<\/a> just after 9 p.m. at an eight-story parking garage on E. 53rd St. between Lexington and Third Avenues, the FDNY and NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37728307\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-lies-side-walk-across-115934560.jpg\" alt=\"The generator exploded at a parking garage on E. 53rd Street Thursday night.\" class=\"wp-image-37728307\"  \/>The generator exploded at a parking garage on E. 53rd Street Thursday night. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>A small pressure explosion occurred in the generator\u2019s venting system, causing the vents to break off and shoot across the parking garage, striking two 25-year-old women as they were walking by, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37728310\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/woman-injured-seen-ambulance-explosion-115934595.jpg\" alt=\"Two women were hospitalized with minor injuries, according to police.\" class=\"wp-image-37728310\"  \/>Two women were hospitalized with minor injuries, according to police. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was some sort of backdraft or a back puff\u201d on the emergency diesel generator in the basement \u201cthat caused the vent assembly to explode and come off of the building, propel across the street into the two individuals,\u201d FDNY Deputy Chief Joseph Abbamonte said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/explosion-manhattan-midtown-parking-garage\/6421461\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NBC News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both were rushed to Cornell Hospital \u2014 one in critical condition, according to the fire department, although police said both women suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two women were hurt \u2014 one critically \u2014 after a generator exploded at a Midtown parking garage on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3531,57,360,9,56,63,65,64,26992,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-47602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-explosions","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-midtown","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-parking-garage","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47602","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=47602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}