{"id":235649,"date":"2026-05-18T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235649\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:36:07","slug":"body-found-floating-in-east-river-off-brooklyn-bridge-parks-pier-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235649\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found floating in East River off Brooklyn Bridge Park&#8217;s Pier 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN HEIGHTS \u2013 A BODY WAS discovered floating in the water off of Brooklyn Bridge Park\u2019s Pier 5 on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/brooklyn\/mans-body-found-floating-off-nyc-pier-nypd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">PIX11 reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A 911 call was placed about a man in the water at around 8:30 a.m. on Friday, police said. Officers responding found him floating unresponsive around 30 feet away from the pier. He was declared dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, and the medical examiner will determine the cause of death. Authorities have not yet released the man\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN HEIGHTS \u2013 A BODY WAS discovered floating in the water off of Brooklyn Bridge Park\u2019s Pier 5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,34653,100,6748,99,303,53723,9,24,15662,5325,63],"class_list":["post-235649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-bridge-park-bbp","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-heights","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime","tag-death-body-found","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-police-department-nypd","tag-no-paywall","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235649","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=235649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}