{"id":217450,"date":"2026-05-02T03:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217450\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:38:08","slug":"woman-49-found-dead-floating-in-bay-off-staten-islands-south-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217450\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 49, found dead floating in bay off Staten Island&#8217;s South Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dead woman was pulled from the waters off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/04\/17\/staten-island-target-shooting-woman-boyfriend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Staten Island<\/a> Friday morning, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old woman\u2019s lifeless body <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/04\/12\/womans-body-recovered-from-waters-off-brooklyn-shoreline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was spotted floating<\/a> off the coast of South Beach near the Ocean Breeze Fishing Pier around 9:40 a.m., according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear how the woman\u2019s body came to be in the water.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/ocme\/index.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city\u2019s medical examiner<\/a> will determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dead woman was pulled from the waters off Staten Island Friday morning, cops said. The 49-year-old woman\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,134,136,135,265],"class_list":["post-217450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217450","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=217450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}