An unidentified man was found dead in Canarsie on Friday morning, according to police sources.<\/p>\n
The man\u2019s body appeared to be concealed in a garbage bag, as police surrounded it for most of the morning outside an old movie theater near the corner of Avenue L and E 93rd Street.<\/p>\n
Council Member Mercedes Narcisse, who represents the area, tells News 12 that she\u2019s received information indicating that the body may have been moved from in front of a nearby church before being placed on the sidewalk near Avenue L & East 93rd Street.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video obtained by News 12 seems to confirm that. It first showed someone take the bag out of the trunk of a light-colored car and leave it outside the church a block away near the corner of Avenue L and East 94th Street.<\/p>\n
Then, shortly before 9 a.m., someone is seen walking up to the bag with a push-cart dolly, putting the bag on it and then pushing it down the block.<\/p>\n
Multiple neighbors tell News 12 off camera the man with the cart is well-known in the area for collecting trash, then looking through it for anything that can be sold.<\/p>\n
According to one person who spoke with him, he opened the bag outside the movie theatre, saw it was a person, then flagged down a sanitation worker.<\/p>\n
NYPD sources confirm to News 12 that a sanitation worker did reach out to police.<\/p>\n
The man is believed to have been in his 50s or 60s, but his identity or the cause of death has not been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unidentified man was found dead in Canarsie on Friday morning, according to police sources. The man\u2019s body…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-388540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388540","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=388540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}