{"id":67183,"date":"2025-12-10T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/67183\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:35:08","slug":"human-skull-found-off-coney-island-boardwalk-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/67183\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Skull Found Off Coney Island Boardwalk, Police Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN, NY \u2014 Police are investigating after an apparent human skull was uncovered near the iconic Coney Island Boardwalk Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD says police units responded to a 911 call Tuesday evening after human remains were discovered in the bushes off Riegelmann Boardwalk, between West 32nd and West 33rd Streets, just before 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how long the skull had been there, and the Medical Examiner is still working to determine the cause of death, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the remains is not yet known, and police said the investigation remains ongoing as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, NY \u2014 Police are investigating after an apparent human skull was uncovered near the iconic Coney Island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-67183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67183","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=67183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}