{"id":120931,"date":"2026-02-03T03:48:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120931\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T03:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:48:44","slug":"human-remains-discovered-in-bushwick-basement-brooklyn-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120931\/","title":{"rendered":"Human remains discovered in Bushwick basement \u2022 Brooklyn Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Human remains were discovered in the basement of a Bushwick building on Feb. 1. <\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of Google Maps\/Graphic by Kirstyn Brendlen<\/p>\n

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Human remains were discovered in the basement at the Borinquen Plaza NYCHA\u00a0complex on Sunday morning, authorities say.\n<\/p>\n

According to police sources, workers inside the 330 Bushwick Ave. building made the grim discovery<\/a>\u00a0at around 9:38 a.m. on Feb. 1. The workers told police they found \u201cbody parts\u201d inside the garbage area by a trash chute.<\/p>\n

Upon arrival, cops from the Police Service Area 3 and\u00a090th Precinct<\/a> found the body of a woman. She was pronounced dead at the scene. While she has not yet been identified, she is believed to be between 50 and 60 years old.<\/p>\n

The Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death.\n<\/p>\n

No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains ongoing.\n<\/p>\n

This story first appeared on Brooklyn Paper\u2019s sister site amNewYork<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human remains were discovered in the basement of a Bushwick building on Feb. 1. Photo courtesy of Google…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[8640,5360,52866,98,100,99,9449,52821,303,4081,9,24,2215,12,370,63,305,103,43811],"class_list":["post-120931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-body","tag-body-found","tag-borinquen-plaza","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-bushwick","tag-bushwick-avenue","tag-crime","tag-human-remains","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-police-department","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-nycha","tag-nypd","tag-police-and-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120931","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=120931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}