Video posted to social media shows people in overalls and what appears to be headlamps emerge from the manhole, one by one.
Five children and one firefighter were transported to the hospital after the FDNY rescued the children from a storm drain on Staten Island.
Residents say flooding and sewage backflow are big problems during heavy rainfall.
County officials say the foul odors first started coming from a tank where maintenance was being performed. They later emanated from some other processing tanks.
It's a renter's nightmare in Brooklyn as a woman living in a first-floor apartment has been dealing with a major sewage problem for nearly a week.
The vice chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council was in New York Monday to tour waste sites in Mount Vernon amid what officials are calling an unprecedented sewage crisis.