{"id":357839,"date":"2026-09-26T23:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357839\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T23:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:22:18","slug":"mta-worker-finds-dead-body-inside-nyc-subway-utility-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357839\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA worker finds dead body inside NYC subway utility closet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An MTA track worker made the<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/08\/us-news\/two-dead-bodies-found-on-separate-nyc-subway-trains-within-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> gruesome discovery <\/a>of a dead body inside a utility closet in a NYC subway tunnel Saturday morning, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The worker was involved in an ongoing project at the 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station in East Harlem when he found the remains of a man inside the closet on the No. 6 line, about 100 feet north of the station on the downtown side, around 11 a.m., a source familiar with the investigation said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like somebody who\u2019s been there at least a few days,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41007696\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/commuters-wait-6-train-union-15106424.jpg\" alt=\"Commuters wait at the Union Square subway station as a 6 train approaches.\" class=\"wp-image-41007696\"\/>The remains were found in a tunnel about 100 feet north of the station in East Harlem. Stephen Yang<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41007691\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/125st-lexington-ave-downtown-4-127565256.jpg\" alt=\"Subway station with a train displaying an American flag sticker and the 125th Street sign.\" class=\"wp-image-41007691\"\/>A man\u2019s remains were found in a closet inside a No. 6 subway tunnel near the East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station Saturday. Robert Miller for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>EMS rescuers declared the man, who appeared to be in his 20s or 30s, dead at the scene, cops said. His identity remained unknown.<\/p>\n<p>There was no obvious trauma to the body and police do not suspect criminality.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the City Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death, cops said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An MTA track worker made the gruesome discovery of a dead body inside a utility closet in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1015,6808,4081,338,57,141,9,11,10,103,1687,58],"class_list":["post-357839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-deaths","tag-east-harlem","tag-human-remains","tag-medical-examiners-office","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nypd","tag-subways","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357839","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=357839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}