{"id":293929,"date":"2025-10-11T06:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/293929\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:07:13","slug":"white-powder-sent-to-nyc-board-of-elections-office-at-least-8-workers-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/293929\/","title":{"rendered":"White powder sent to NYC Board of Elections office; at least 8 workers exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight people were exposed to a mysterious white powder Friday afternoon at a <a href=\"https:\/\/vote.nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City Board of Elections<\/a> facility in Manhattan, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>First responders rushed to the location, at 450 W. 33rd St. in Midtown, around 2:40 p.m., where workers counting mail-in ballots were exposed to the substance, which was inside an envelope.<\/p>\n<p>Heavily armed NYPD <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/jointheboldest\/overview\/emergency-service-unit.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emergency Service Unit<\/a> officers responded to the scene and established a safe perimeter, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The nature of the powder and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/08\/14\/white-powder-found-in-envelopes-at-manhattans-federal-plaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whether it was toxic<\/a> were being investigated. However, no injuries were reported, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>According to a lease for the space, the facility is used to store Manhattan\u2019s voting machines, voter registration forms and other election materials.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least eight people were exposed to a mysterious white powder Friday afternoon at a New York City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,5249,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-293929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-manhattan","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-county","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkcity","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-nyc-crime","24":"tag-sub-county-region","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115354038828033456","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293929","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=293929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}