{"id":189661,"date":"2026-04-08T15:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189661\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:28:11","slug":"human-remains-found-near-bqe-exit-in-jackson-heights-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189661\/","title":{"rendered":"Human remains found near BQE exit in Jackson Heights, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"embb7\">City medical examiners are investigating human remains discovered inside a storage area under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Queens, police said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3fah8\">NYPD officials said officers found the remains around 11 a.m. Tuesday after a man called 911 and directed them to the space near Exit 41 on Northern Boulevard in Jackson Heights.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"f065a\">Police said it is unclear if the skeletal remains belonged to a man or woman and how long they had been in the storage area.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cvb71\">The city\u2019s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is working to determine the person\u2019s cause of death and whether it resulted from a crime, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"bg75h\">Officials made no immediate arrests in connection with the remains.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"8nsfn\">This story is based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City medical examiners are investigating human remains discovered inside a storage area under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Queens,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-189661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189661","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=189661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}