PICS: Insane Brooklyn Sinkhole Is 2 Seconds From Devouring Your Kids

Photo courtesy of the NYPD

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — What is destined to become Sunset Park's second world-famous sinkhole of the year began forming Tuesday on 56th Street between 5th and 6th avenues, according to the local police precinct.

"No thru traffic on 56 street!" the precinct warned via Twitter around 12:30 p.m.

Glen Schneider, captain of the (non-city-affiliated) New York Rescue Response Team, tweeted that by 1 p.m., the sinkhole had deepened.

However, by 1:15 p.m., reported Todd Maisel, a photographer for the New York Daily News, no cars or humans had been swallowed. (Yet.)

A spokeswoman for the city's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) told Patch that frantic, sinkhole-related phone calls were flooding into the department Tuesday afternoon. She promised to get back to us soon with all things sinkhole. You better know we'll update when she does.

Previously, back in August, a sinkhole measuring somewhere around 20 cubic feet ravaged a Sunset Park intersection a few blocks south, at 64th Street and 5th Avenue. In late October, we reported that DEP workers were still struggling to close the thing up — and a neighborhood source tells us today that reconstruction won't wrap up until at least springtime. "It's been a long, hard slog," he says.