Westchester woman dies after falling down uncovered manhole in Manhattan: ‘never should have happened’

Donika Gocaj, 56, of Briarcliff Manor, New York, tumbled 10-feet down the open manhole after stepping out of her parked Mercedes-Benz SUV around 11:20 p.m. on 52nd Street and Fifth Avenue. Responders pulled Gocaj out of the hole and rushed her to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she died from her injuries.