{"id":292102,"date":"2026-07-10T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292102\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:15:08","slug":"skeletal-remains-discovered-in-vacant-nyc-brownstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292102\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeletal remains discovered in vacant NYC brownstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skeletal remains were discovered in a vacant Manhattan brownstone where a homeless veteran was reportedly living, according to reports and authorities. <\/p>\n<p>Officers stumbled upon the skeletonized body after responding to a call at the building on East 115th Street between Second and Third Avenues in East Harlem around 3:45 p.m. on Wednesday, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for the building owner first found the bones while checking on the three-story, vacant row house, <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/skeletal-remains-found-in-vacant-east-harlem-building-police-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gothamist reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39942513\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/46-pm-police-responded-location-133888350.jpg\" alt=\"Two personnel from the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner moving skeletal remains on a stretcher into a white van.\" class=\"wp-image-39942513\"  \/>Skeletal remains were found in a vacant East Harlem brownstone, where a homeless veteran reportedly lived. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39942522\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/46-pm-police-responded-location-133873520.jpg\" alt=\"Crime scene tape in front of apartment buildings where skeletal remains were found.\" class=\"wp-image-39942522\"  \/>A building owner\u2019s rep discovered the bones Wednesday afternoon in the three-story row house on East 115th Street. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>A 311 complaint from last year also claimed the building was an abandoned drug rehabilitation facility where a homeless veteran had been camping out for at least two years, <a href=\"https:\/\/a810-bisweb.nyc.gov\/bisweb\/ComplaintsByAddressServlet?requestid=1&amp;allbin=1052524\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to public records<\/a> first reported by the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how long the building has been vacant.<\/p>\n<p>The Medical Examiner\u2019s office is now conducting a forensic examination to confirm the identity of the remains. <\/p>\n<p>An investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skeletal remains were discovered in a vacant Manhattan brownstone where a homeless veteran was reportedly living, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13300,1015,6808,4081,57,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-292102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brownstones","tag-deaths","tag-east-harlem","tag-human-remains","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292102","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=292102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}