Utilicé esta función para eliminar la nueva línea u otros caracteres en los datos para analizar los datos JSON:
function normalize_str($str) {
$invalid = array(
'Š'=>'S', 'š'=>'s', 'Đ'=>'Dj', 'đ'=>'dj', 'Ž'=>'Z', 'ž'=>'z',
'Č'=>'C', 'č'=>'c', 'Ć'=>'C', 'ć'=>'c', 'À'=>'A', 'Á'=>'A', 'Â'=>'A', 'Ã'=>'A',
'Ä'=>'A', 'Å'=>'A', 'Æ'=>'A', 'Ç'=>'C', 'È'=>'E', 'É'=>'E', 'Ê'=>'E', 'Ë'=>'E',
'Ì'=>'I', 'Í'=>'I', 'Î'=>'I', 'Ï'=>'I', 'Ñ'=>'N', 'Ò'=>'O', 'Ó'=>'O', 'Ô'=>'O',
'Õ'=>'O', 'Ö'=>'O', 'Ø'=>'O', 'Ù'=>'U', 'Ú'=>'U', 'Û'=>'U', 'Ü'=>'U', 'Ý'=>'Y',
'Þ'=>'B', 'ß'=>'Ss', 'à'=>'a', 'á'=>'a', 'â'=>'a', 'ã'=>'a', 'ä'=>'a', 'å'=>'a',
'æ'=>'a', 'ç'=>'c', 'è'=>'e', 'é'=>'e', 'ê'=>'e', 'ë'=>'e', 'ì'=>'i', 'í'=>'i',
'î'=>'i', 'ï'=>'i', 'ð'=>'o', 'ñ'=>'n', 'ò'=>'o', 'ó'=>'o', 'ô'=>'o', 'õ'=>'o',
'ö'=>'o', 'ø'=>'o', 'ù'=>'u', 'ú'=>'u', 'û'=>'u', 'ý'=>'y', 'ý'=>'y', 'þ'=>'b',
'ÿ'=>'y', 'Ŕ'=>'R', 'ŕ'=>'r',
"`" => "'", "´" => "'", '"' => ',', '`' => "'",
'´' => "'", '"' => '\"', '"' => "\"", '´' => "'",
"’" => "'",
"{" => "",
"~" => "", "–" => "-", "'" => "'", " " => " ");
$str = str_replace(array_keys($invalid), array_values($invalid), $str);
$remove = array("\n", "\r\n", "\r");
$str = str_replace($remove, "\\n", trim($str));
//$str = htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES);
return htmlspecialchars($str);
}
echo normalize_str($lst['address']);