QUEENS, NY \u2014 A man’s body was found floating in the waters near a Queens park on Tuesday, police said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
The body of an 80-year-old man was found near Hunter\u2019s Point South Park in the vicinity of 50th Avenue and Center Boulevard just after 4:40 p.m., police said. <\/p>\n
The man was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS. His identity has not been released yet. <\/p>\n
The city’s medical examiner will determine the cause of death. <\/p>\n
Additional details were not readily available as of Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n
An investigation remains ongoing. <\/p>\n
Earlier on Tuesday, emergency personnel were also searching for a teen who was reported missing in the waters off Rockaway Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 A man’s body was found floating in the waters near a Queens park on Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-238146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238146","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=238146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}