{"id":271809,"date":"2025-10-02T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/271809\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:05:15","slug":"hole-opens-onto-nyc-street-giving-peek-into-subway-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/271809\/","title":{"rendered":"Hole opens onto NYC street — giving peek into subway below"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a real hellhole.<\/p>\n

A hole opened on a crumbling sidewalk<\/a> near Battery Park that briefly gave passersby a peephole into the subway \u2014 and a reality check about how thin the ground actually is.<\/p>\n

The baseball-sized hole in the asphalt of Battery Place and State Street opened sometime last week, according to a hair-raising Instagram video, but it has since been covered with an orange traffic cone bolted to the ground.<\/p>\n

The wild video shows light apparently emanating from the hole, which lands smack in the middle of a blacktop patch on the walkway.<\/p>\n

The hole also runs deep, apparently going between a layer of concrete and the ceiling of the Bowling Green subway station, the video shows, offering sightseeing tourists a rare vantage point into the Bowling Green subway station below.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New Yorkers were quick<\/a> to bash the apparent hazard, with one commenting: \u201cAt this point human hair is holding the whole city together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI love this city but it\u2019s a joke how bad the infrastructure is,\u201d wrote another.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"HoleThe video shows light coming from the hole. Instagram\/@whatisnewyork<\/p>\n

Other, de-sensitized New Yorkers joked about the situation, with one saying the hole was simply the \u201cspecial rat express entrance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear when \u2014 or how \u2014 the hole came to be, but a staffer hawking \u201cStatue of Liberty Sight Seeing\u201d Ferry tickets told The Post Wednesday that the cone has been serving as a placeholder since last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cone has been there for several days now,\u201d the worker, who did not want to be named, explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AOne New Yorker said that the hole was a \u201cspecial rat express entrance.\u201d Instagram\/@whatisnewyork<\/p>\n

\u201cSince it\u2019s bolted down, it\u2019s not like it blows away or like it can be moved so it\u2019s not really bothering any of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI assume they will get to it eventually but as you can see all of this sidewalk has cracks in it. So maybe they plan on fixing it all together,\u201d the worker continued, pointing to the seasoned and well tread sidewalk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The issue falls on the responsibility of the Parks Department, which became aware of the hole this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The department is handling it as a \u201chigh priority\u201d issue and is currently evaluating the best approach for repairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a real hellhole. A hole opened on a crumbling sidewalk near Battery Park that briefly gave passersby…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":271810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,141072,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,7835,21068,28715,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-271809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-battery-park","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-rats","18":"tag-sinkholes","19":"tag-subways","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115304485912576728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}