NYC's Second Sinkhole in a Week Nearly Swallows Special-Needs School Bus

Tuesday’s infamous sinkhole in Brooklyn. Photo courtesy of the FDNY.

The streets of New York City may be trying to tell us something.

Early Tuesday morning, a 20-foot-wide sinkhole opened up in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn thanks to an underground water main that had ruptured and slowly eroded the street. (Pictured above.)

In that instance, no one was hurt.

But when a second massive sinkhole opened up on Creston Avenue in the Bronx this Thursday afternoon, it nearly swallowed a school bus. With kids in it.

CBS2 reporter Jessica Schneider, who rushed to the scene, says the bus was shuttling a group of special-needs students to summer camp when it ”went over what was then a small pothole, and ended up plummeting into what became an enormous sinkhole.”

The ground opened underneath the bus to something that was about 10 feet long and 6 feet wide.

Several special needs students were on board when the incident happened. They all got off the bus safely and none were injured.

But the students’ parents rushed out to the scene and were startled by what they saw. Many were concerned.

The driver, too, is reportedly doing fine.

Photos of the sunken school bus show its entire left rear tilted down into a a black abyss. We’ve reached out to the NYC Department of Environmental Protection for more on what caused Creston Avenue to crumble on Thursday and why this seems to be turning into a (pretty terrifying) city pattern.