Huge piece of debris smashes onto busy Manhattan expressway ^66.7%

Gothamist - By Liam Quigley - 5/9/2026, 12:47 AM

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A large piece of debris fell from the ceiling of a tunnel on the busy Trans-Manhattan Expressway Thursday morning, narrowly missing passing drivers in harrowing a caught-on-camera episode. City Department of Environmental Protection worker John Toledo said he was on his way home from work at about 6 a.m. when a large piece of what he... more