{"id":358651,"date":"2026-09-28T10:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358651\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:34:21","slug":"nyc-subway-worker-finds-dead-body-in-utility-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358651\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Subway Worker Finds Dead Body In Utility Closet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260927_209b50e421be4734bcb2ac203895cad9\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:35f8b84c-4ee6-4814-a796-6a3db7dba0a8\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/209b50e421be4734bcb2ac203895cad9_md.jpg\" alt=\"new-york-mta-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A NYC subway employee made a grim discovery inside a utility closet this weekend &#8230; the remains of a man who had been decomposing for multiple days.<\/p>\n<p>The MTA track worker who made the grim find had opened up the closet around 100 feet away from 125th Street Station on the 6 Line on Saturday morning &#8230; the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/26\/us-news\/mta-worker-finds-dead-body-inside-nyc-subway-utility-closet\/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&amp;preferred_app=nypost&amp;utm_source=pasteboard_app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New York Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260927_e8f7718ad9294ebdad33c932b687b7a2\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:35f8b84c-4ee6-4814-a796-6a3db7dba0a8\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/e8f7718ad9294ebdad33c932b687b7a2_md.jpg\" alt=\"125th-Street-station-getty-2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>An insider told the publication that the body &#8212; which belonged to a guy in his 20s or 30s &#8212; had been there in the tunnel&#8217;s closet at least a few days.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After EMS arrived on the scene &#8230; the first responders declared the man dead.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the unusual circumstances of the death, cops don&#8217;t think a crime was committed &#8230; this according to the NYP.<\/p>\n<p>With the body showing no overt signs of trauma &#8230; we&#8217;ll have to wait for a medical examiner&#8217;s report for more insight into what went wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NYC subway employee made a grim discovery inside a utility closet this weekend &#8230; the remains of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-358651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358651","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=358651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}