Insane video shows MTA car explode in huge fireball near Wall Street’s Charging Bull

Nypost · May 20, 2026 · 196 words · By Anthony Blair

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What happened

Insane video shows MTA car explode in huge fireball near Wall Street’s Charging Bull See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GoogleDramatic video shows an MTA car exploding in an enormous fireball just steps from Wall Street’s iconic Charging Bull statue, sending screaming New Yorkers sprinting for safety.

Common ground

Footage showed the vehicle initially burning fiercely during the Tuesday evening rush hour just outside the MTA’s headquarters at 2 Broadway, a block from the iconic statue.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that the vehicle initially burning fiercely during the Tuesday evening rush hour just outside the MTA’s headquarters at 2 Broadway?
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “the vehicle initially burning fiercely during the Tuesday evening rush hour just outside the MTA’s headquarters at 2 Broadway”

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The evidence provided consists of unrelated YouTube videos, a TikTok about a different collision on the Upper East Side, and general Wikipedia entries about the MTA. There is no evidence of a vehicle fire at 2 Broadway on a Tuesday evening.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The physical accessibility of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s public transit network, serving the New York metropolitan area, is incomplete. Although all buses are wheelchair-accessi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility_of_the_Metropoli…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — MTA Regional Bus Operations operates local and express buses serving New York City, United States, out of 27 bus depots. These depots are located in all five boroughs of the city, plus one located in …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_depots_of_MTA_Regional_Bus…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in New York City, serving four of the city's five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. It is owned by the government of New York Cit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway

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Claim 2: “The MTA confirmed the car was one of its own”

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The evidence includes general MTA schedules and a report about a fatal hit-and-run involving an MTA bus, but no confirmation that the MTA owned a vehicle involved in a fire as described in the claims.

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web search NEUTRAL — View LIRR schedules and Metro-North schedules and fares and download MTA railroad, bus, and subway timetables.
https://www.mta.info/schedules

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web search NEUTRAL — Is the MTA firing workers before they reach higher pay scales? It seems some workers never get to top pay -could it be intentional cost-cutting to avoid higher wages and benefits?
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/getting-fired-by-nyc-mta

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web search NEUTRAL — An MTA bus fatally struck a man in Staten Island early Friday and drove off, officials said.A spokesman for the MTA confirmed that a bus on the SIM10 line had struck a person at the same location and …
https://nypost.com/2022/05/13/mta-bus-involved-in-fatal-hit-…

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Claim 3: “there were no injuries, the FDNY said”

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While there are multiple reports of FDNY stating 'no injuries' for other unrelated car fires (in Norwood, Lincoln Tunnel, and Castle Hill), there is no evidence linking this statement to the specific incident described in the claims.

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web search NEUTRAL — The fire was on the top floor of the parking garage. The FDNY said no injuries were reported and the incident was closed at 12.45 p.m. Speaking to Norwood News, the male driver of the car, Marttise H,…
https://www.norwoodnews.org/update-norwood-no-injuries-repor…

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web search NEUTRAL — Smoke from a Lincoln Tunnel vehicle fire led to the temporary closure of the center tube; no injuries were reported.
https://hoodline.com/2025/04/vehicle-fire-in-lincoln-tunnel-…

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web search NEUTRAL — A car erupted in flames early Sunday morning in Castle Hill, according to officials.Firefighters responded to the scene and were able to extinguish the blaze two hours later.No injuries were reported.
https://bronx.news12.com/fdny-car-fire-erupts-in-castle-hill…

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Claim 4: “the charred remains of the vehicle outside a Starbucks”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of technical search results regarding browser caching and regex, which are completely irrelevant to the claim about a vehicle outside a Starbucks.

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web search NEUTRAL — I noticed some caching issues with service calls when repeating the same service call (long polling). Adding metadata didn't help. One solution is to pass a timestamp to ensure ie thinks it's a differ…
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1341089/is-there-a-meta-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 12, 2016 · But what I would like to do is to apply ?nocache=1 to every URL related to the site (including the assets like style.css) so that I get the non cached version of the files.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38333569/adding-nocache-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 4, 2012 · If your class or action didn't have NoCache when it was rendered in your browser and you want to check it's working, remember that after compiling the changes you need to do a "hard refr…
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10011780/prevent-caching…

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Claim 5: “It took nearly 90 minutes to completely control”

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The evidence contains reports of other fires (a brush fire in Rancho Bernardo and a car park fire at Chadstone) that took 90 minutes or were brought under control, but none relate to the specific car fire mentioned in the claims.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 90 may refer to: 90 (number), the natural number following 89 and preceding 91 one of the years 90 BC, AD 90, 1990, 2090, etc. The international calling code for Turkey 90 (album), an album by the e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AS-90 ("Artillery System for the 1990s"), known officially as Gun Equipment 155 mm L131, is an armoured self-propelled howitzer formerly used by the British Army and subsequently donated for use b…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alliance 90/The Greens (German: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen [ˈbʏntnɪs ˈnɔʏntsɪç diː ˈɡʁyːnən] ), often simply referred to as Greens (German: Grüne [ˈɡʁyːnə] ), is a green political party in Germany. It was …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens

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Claim 6: “MTA car exploding in an enormous fireball just steps from Wall Street’s iconic Charging Bull statue”

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The provided evidence includes a Wikipedia entry for the Charging Bull statue and general MTA information, but no news reports or search results confirming an explosion or fireball at that specific location.

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web search NEUTRAL — Charging Bull (sometimes referred to as the Bull of Wall Street or the Bowling Green Bull) is a bronze sculpture that stands on Broadway just north of Bowling Green in the Financial District of Manhat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_Bull

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web search NEUTRAL — Plan a Trip or go to Schedules and save it for quick access in the future. Your favorite subway, bus and rail services will appear here.
https://www.mta.info/

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web search NEUTRAL — Dec 2, 2009 · We’re working closely with @MTA to minimize the impacts of the LIRR strike and keep people informed of alternate travel options to and from Long Island. I’m encouraging all sides to cont…
https://x.com/mta

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Claim 7: “Police and firefighters were called to the car fire near the corner of Broadway and Stone Street at around 5:42 p.m.”

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The search results return general definitions of 'Emergency', a TV show, and unrelated Wikipedia entries for buildings and streets in Manhattan. No specific report of a car fire at Broadway and Stone Street at 5:42 p.m. was found.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 108 Leonard (formerly known as 346 Broadway, the New York Life Insurance Company Building, and the Clock Tower Building) is a residential structure in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan in New York…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108_Leonard

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Canal Street (Chinese: 堅尼街) is a major east–west street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States, running over 1 mile (1.6 km) from East Broadway between Essex and Jefferson Streets in the eas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Street_(Manhattan)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, originally the Globe Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 205 West 46th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Opened in 1910, the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunt-Fontanne_Theatre

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