{"id":596345,"date":"2026-02-17T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/596345\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:50:12","slug":"boy-16-in-critical-condition-after-falling-50-feet-down-shaft-on-nyc-queensboro-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/596345\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 16, in critical condition after falling 50 feet down shaft on NYC Queensboro Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old boy is in critical condition after falling 50 feet down a shaft on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/infrastructure\/queensboro-bridge.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queensboro Bridge<\/a>, authorties said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>First responders rescued the victim, who was sufferening from hypothermia, from the shaft on the lower level of the Manhattan-bound side of the bridge about 9 p.m. Monday, an FDNY spokesman said. It wasn\u2019t clear how long he had been down the shaft or how he got there.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the teen to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell in critical condition, FDNY officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy is in critical condition after falling 50 feet down a shaft on the Queensboro Bridge,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":368160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,4413,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-596345","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-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-queens","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\/116086061536341884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596345","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=596345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}