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 ...

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 ...

MIDTOWN (WABC) -- Monday night work crews returned to the spot where a man used to pulling shots of espresso wound up pulling two people from a wrecked taxi. In Manhattan, the taxi drove over a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two young children and a woman suffered burns after multiple manhole covers exploded in lower Manhattan Thursday afternoon, cops ...

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 ...

These sort of events are caused by melting snow mixing with road salt and seeping into the underground electric equipment.

MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Three people, including two children, are recovering after a manhole explosion shook a busy Tribeca intersection Thursday afternoon, authorities said. The incident happened ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LEESBURG, Va. - A teen was arrested in connection to an October explosion in Leesburg that dislodged several manhole covers early ...

Across major U.S. cities, an invisible danger waits below street level - exploding manholes that strike without warning. These violent incidents send flames and heavy metal lids hurtling skyward, ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Firefighters were on the scene after an underground explosion caused a manhole cover to fly into the air in the Old City section of Philadelphia. It happened at 9:20 a.m.