{"id":89133,"date":"2026-01-05T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89133\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:00:06","slug":"staten-island-expressway-traffic-backed-up-after-verrazzano-bridge-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89133\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island Expressway traffic backed up after Verrazzano Bridge crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"32SIJRGHVJH4TLRJUJXWWV43EE\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Emergency personnel rushed to the scene of a multi-vehicle crash that occurred around 5 p.m. Sunday evening on the upper Brooklyn-bound level of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VZ4KVQUE2VEEHNESTDQFCKCNHA\">According to an NYPD spokesperson, the incident involved two vehicles and there were no injuries. An MTA spokesperson confirmed that FDNY\/EMS and the NYPD shut down two lanes, significantly slowing traffic on the upper level of the span.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IQXCA3S43NECLNMZDUHNGWVV5E\">Traffic has slowed to a crawl along the eastbound side of the Staten Island Expressway as police and fire officials investigate the crash, according to emergency transmissions and NY511.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UNYK6SI37NFX7MN3QENATKJZOQ\">According to the MTA spokesperson, both upper level lanes of the Verrazzano were eventually reopened just before 6 p.m., with traffic flowing as normal on the Brooklyn-bound side. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Emergency personnel rushed to the scene of a multi-vehicle crash that occurred around 5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-89133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89133","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=89133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}