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Police Probe Reports of Men 'Emerging' From New York Sewers
Police are reviewing surveillance video from at least three incidents and say no injuries, arrests or damage have been reported.
- New York City authorities are investigating a bizarre series of nighttime incidents involving organized groups of people opening manhole covers to enter and exit the city's underground sewer system.
- Surveillance footage has captured at least three separate incursions across Brooklyn and Queens since early May, with groups of three to eight individuals spending hours beneath the city streets before resurfacing.
- In one striking video from Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, seven people popped out of a manhole in the middle of a busy intersection, wearing headlamps and carrying shovels and tools while narrowly dodging oncoming traffic.
- A separate clip from Gravesend, Brooklyn, showed a group emerging at 2:00 AM after three hours underground, immediately heading to parked vehicles to change out of their soiled clothes.
- The NYPD's Emergency Service Unit conducted a full subterranean sweep and found no threats or hazardous items left behind, leading investigators to theorize that the individuals may be "scouring the system for valuables" or engaging in extreme urban exploration.
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What it’s like to go inside New York City’s dank, dangerous, bug-filled sewers
New York after surveillance videos captured small groups of people mysteriously entering and exiting the sewer system in Brooklyn and Queens in recent days.
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