{"id":349046,"date":"2026-09-17T06:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349046\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T06:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:16:09","slug":"womans-body-discovered-in-trash-can-near-quiet-nyc-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349046\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s body discovered in trash can near quiet NYC beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman\u2019s body was discovered dumped inside a trash can in the parking lot of a remote Brooklyn beach off the Belt Parkway Wednesday afternoon, according to police and reports. <\/p>\n<p>Cops responded to a 911 call around 3 p.m. and found a woman unconscious and unresponsive in a Plumb Beach parking lot, near the parkway and Knapp Street, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p>A woman was found dead near Plumb Beach in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Wednesday afternoon, police said. William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who has not yet been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her body was found inside a trash can on the small peninsula jutting out from Sheepshead Bay and across the Rockaway Inlet from Breezy Point, sources <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/woman-found-dead-trash-can-plumb-beach-sheepshead-bay-brooklyn-police-investigating-cause-death\/19841954\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told ABC 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators appeared to examine a trash can while they gathered evidence. William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Investigators at the scene appeared to examine a trash can while they collected evidence. <\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s body, covered in a white sheet, was seen being removed from the scene by the medical examiner\u2019s office Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The parking lot where the body was found is frequently used by people visiting Plumb Beach \u2014 a small beach part of Gateway National Recreation Area that\u2019s popular with windsurfers and kiteboarders.<\/p>\n<p>A source told WABC that the woman\u2019s body was found dead in a trash can in a parking lot near Plumb Beach. William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner\u2019s office transported the woman\u2019s body from the scene Wednesday night.  William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine how the woman died, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday night, no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman\u2019s body was discovered dumped inside a trash can in the parking lot of a remote Brooklyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7631,98,1015,4081,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,8192,8193,58],"class_list":["post-349046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-beaches","tag-brooklyn","tag-deaths","tag-human-remains","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-police-investigations","tag-sheepshead-bay","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349046","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=349046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}