{"id":200702,"date":"2026-04-17T13:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200702\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:55:07","slug":"bottle-collector-finds-decomposing-body-in-manhattan-alleyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200702\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottle collector finds decomposing body in Manhattan alleyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; A decomposing body was discovered in an alleyway in Manhattan on Thursday, according to police and sources.<\/p>\n<p>The skeletal remains were found shortly before 11:45 a.m. at 81 Wadsworth Terrace in Washington Heights, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A person collecting bottles came across them in the alley, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p> The body was so badly decomposed that the person\u2019s gender wasn&#8217;t immediately clear, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner is working to determine their cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; A decomposing body was discovered in an alleyway in Manhattan on Thursday, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5360,75,84,83,9,24,63,103,2958],"class_list":{"0":"post-200702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-body-found","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-manhattan-headlines","11":"tag-manhattan-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nypd","16":"tag-washington-heights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200702","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=200702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}