Police and utility officials are investigating the death of a 56-year-old woman after she fell into an open maintenance hole on a busy New York City street. Donike Gocaj has parked her Mercedes-Benz SUV near the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan Monday and fell into the open hole after exiting the vehicle shortly before 11.

New York ‌City hotel operators and unions have reached an eight-year labour deal covering about 25,000 workers, averting a strike over wages, workloads and staffing levels that had threatened to disrupt the city ahead of ​the FIFA World Cup,