{"id":102026,"date":"2026-01-16T05:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:31:20","slug":"man-found-dead-floating-in-nyc-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102026\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead, floating in NYC river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dead man was discovered floating in the Harlem River on Thursday afternoon, according to authorities. <\/p>\n<p>Police received a 911 call just after 2:40 p.m. about an individual who needed help around the FDR Drive and East 106th Street in East Harlem, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38198953\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fdr-drive-east-106th-street-119003897.jpg\" alt=\"The FDR Drive at East 106th Street, with the East River and Triborough Bridge in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-38198953\"  \/>A body was discovered floating in the Harlem River on Thursday afternoon. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>Cops arrived at the scene and made the grim discovery of an unconscious, unidentified man floating in the water of the Harlem River nearby, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The individual was pronounced dead by officials at the scene, authorities added.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not immediately clear how the man ended up in the river or how long he had been floating.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38198954\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fdr-drive-east-106th-street-119003895.jpg\" alt=\"Residential buildings and a playground at FDR Drive and East 106th Street.\" class=\"wp-image-38198954\"  \/>The man, whose identity has not yet been revealed, was pronounced dead at the scene.  Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>His identity has not yet been released, and the city\u2019s Medical Examiner will determine his cause of death, according to police. <\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dead man was discovered floating in the Harlem River on Thursday afternoon, according to authorities. Police received&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1015,469,4081,57,9,24,55,54,56,103,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-102026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-deaths","9":"tag-harlem","10":"tag-human-remains","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-city-news","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nypd","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}