Brooklyn Daily Eagle

It’s manhole explosion season: what you need to know about a century-old problem

Osman Bah was driving his taxi through Midtown when an underground explosion shot four heavy manhole covers into the air. The blast near Lexington Avenue and 44th Street sent one of the metal covers ...
The Washington Post

Sunken Web of Repairs Reaches Its Conclusion

The Georgetown mini-dig is done. More than five years after an epidemic of exploding manholes prompted an overdue overhaul, the District's oldest neighborhood has a thoroughly modern circulatory ...
NBC Chicago

Exploding Manhole Cover Rips Through Bus Floor on NYC Street, Slams Seated Passenger

A manhole exploded underneath an occupied New York City MTA bus, sending the nearly 300-pound iron plate cover up through the floor of the bus and hitting a passenger sitting on the bus Tuesday. The ...
abc7NY

Exploding manhole caught on camera in Bushwick

BUSHWICK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A manhole explosion was captured on video on Thursday afternoon in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The explosion happened at 5:21 p.m. on Central Avenue between Myrtle Avenue and ...