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Woman dies after falling into open manhole in Midtown: NYPD



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“A female driver plunged to her death down a deep, uncovered manhole in Midtown Monday night, police said.”
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The provided evidence describes different incidents: a woman in Mosta, a man named Cesar in Manhattan, and a man named Mr. McGarity in Manhattan. None of the search results describe a female driver falling into a manhole in Midtown on a Monday night.
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web search NEUTRAL — Elderly woman broke both ankles after fall during Mosta square road works.The 78-year-old woman is in a wheelchair and homebound after falling into an uncovered manhole in Mosta’s main square. Photos:…
https://timesofmalta.com/article/my-life-ruined-woman-ends-w…
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web search NEUTRAL — Cesar walked into the open manhole, located near Columbus Circle in Midtown Manhattan, around 2:30am on September 30. Security footage showed that he stumbled over barriers which were put in place aro…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7584415/Man-fell-op…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mr. Masters also fell, but was able to catch himself on the edge of the hole, the police said. The police, responding to a 911 call reporting a fight, found Mr. Masters clinging to the rim of the manh…
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/nyregion/man-is-killed-af…
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“The 56-year-old woman from Westchester County fell after stepping out of her parked Mercedes-Benz SUV around 11:20 p.m. near Cartier and Nike stores at E. 52nd Street and 5th Avenue.”
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The search results for this claim are irrelevant, providing mathematical facts about the number 56 rather than any report of a woman from Westchester County falling into a manhole.
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web search NEUTRAL — 56 is an Erdős–Woods number, meaning that there is an interval of 57 consecutive integers in which every element has a nontrivial common factor with one of the two endpoints.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56_(number)
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 5, 2026 · Explore the hidden nature of 56, an even number composed of two distinct primes multiplied together. Includes Prime Factorization, Divisors, Bases and Fun Facts for students, number love…
https://numbermatics.com/n/56/
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web search NEUTRAL — Factors of 56, set of positive integers that divides 56 without a remainder. What are the multiples of 56?
https://www.gcflcm.com/factors-of-56
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“She fell about 10 feet, officials said.”
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While one search result mentions a woman falling 10 feet into a manhole, that incident occurred in Baltimore, not the Midtown Manhattan incident described in the claims.
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web search NEUTRAL — City fire officials say the woman fell at least 10-feet into a manhole that conducts steam. The woman was extricated from the hole and taken to an area hospital. She died from her injures on Monday, a…
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/woman-dies-after-fall…
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web search NEUTRAL — Screams lead to woman stranded overnight after falling into manhole, CA rescuers say. By Daniella Segura.The woman told rescuers she fell into the hole sometime the night before. Prater said it’s uncl…
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/artic…
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web search NEUTRAL — itsmyfetish.com. 10 Haziran 2018. Количество просмотров 431 bin. 13:58. woman & young boy compilation.
https://twitter.yandex.com.tr/video/preview/1319862965659481…
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“First responders arrived on the scene to find the woman unconscious and unresponsive inside the open Con Edison utility hole, cops said.”
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The evidence provided contains reports of people found 'unconscious and unresponsive' in other contexts (a trash compactor in Union Square, an apartment in Seoul, and a chef), but none relate to a woman in a Con Edison utility hole.
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web search NEUTRAL — A woman was found dead inside the trash compactor of a swanky Union Square apartment building on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. Cops and paramedics responded to Zeckendorf Towers at 1 Irving …
https://nypost.com/2018/07/10/woman-found-dead-in-manhattan-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The 29-year-old was found 'unconscious and unresponsive' in her apartment in Seoul, South Korea on March 24 and was receiving treatment in the ICU before being moved to a standard hospital room.
https://www.aol.com/influencer-29-found-unconscious-unrespon…
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web search NEUTRAL — LGBTQ+ TV host and chef Anne Burrell dies aged 55 after being found ‘unconscious and unresponsive’.The New York Police Department confirmed in a statement that they responded to an “unconscious and un…
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/18/lgbtq-tv-chef-anne-bu…
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“After being pulled out, she was rushed to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she later died from her injuries.”
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The evidence confirms the existence of the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and mentions a different patient (the 'New York patient' cured of HIV), but does not mention the woman from the claim.
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web search NEUTRAL — READ MORE: Modelling shows HIV infection during sex. The unidentified woman, called the "New York patient" because she received her treatment at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Centre in N…
https://www.9news.com.au/world/mixed-race-woman-appears-to-b…
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web search NEUTRAL — Weill Cornell Medical Center - NewYork-Presbyterian (New York, NY).
https://www.nyp.org/locations/newyork-presbyterian-weill-cor…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anna's Story - Epilepsy Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gXl4LLgXQQ
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“Con Edison said it is investigating why the hole was not covered.”
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The evidence mentions Con Edison's general warnings about stolen manhole covers and a separate investigation into a manhole explosion, but there is no specific evidence that Con Edison is investigating the specific uncovered hole mentioned in the claim.
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web search NEUTRAL — "Stealing manhole covers is dangerous," said Milovan Blair, Con Edison Vice President for Brooklyn-Queens Electric Operations.Of course, an accident in an uncovered manhole presents its own set of pro…
https://abc7ny.com/archive/8647293/
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web search NEUTRAL — A spokesman for Con Edison said that the fire damaged cars and storefronts but that it was unclear how many. The cause of the fire remained under investigation. On Sunday afternoon, 228 customers in f…
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/28/nyregion/new-york-city-ma…
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web search NEUTRAL — Another secondary reason manhole covers are round might be for the ease of putting the manhole cover in.The system was never extended to Upper Manhattan or to the Bronx or Staten Island, so you won’t …
https://www.untappedcities.com/why-are-manhole-covers-round-…

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