A construction worker died Thursday morning after falling down a massive hole at a jobsite on Manhattan’s West Side where a new set of Hudson River tunnels are being built, according to the agency overseeing the project.

FDNY Battalion Chief Anthony Romano said the worker wasn’t breathing and had no pulse when he was found at the bottom of the pit at Hudson Yards. Crews performed CPR then hoisted the worker up with a “stokes basket,” a type of stretcher.

“The construction worker was working approximately 50 feet up on the northern wall,” said Romano. “It was a foundation wall that was poured yesterday. We don’t know how or why he fell.”

The man worked for the New York Concrete Corporation, according to officials from the Gateway Development Commission, which is managing the work. Offici

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