{"id":89102,"date":"2026-01-04T23:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89102\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:31:18","slug":"nypd-uniforms-found-stuffed-in-box-on-nyc-street-sparking-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89102\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD uniforms found stuffed in box on NYC street, sparking mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

A cardboard box filled with official NYPD uniforms was found near a Brooklyn cemetery, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The bizarre find was reported to police at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday on an industrial Borough Park street between Green-Wood Cemetery and an MTA train yard, a NYPD spokesperson told The Post.<\/p>\n

Cops sifted through the discarded box \u2013 containing pants, shirts, jackets and even hats \u2013 at the corner of 37th Street and Ninth Avenue Tuesday night, according to a video posted to X<\/a> on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n

\"NYPDA mysterious cardboard box filled with official NYPD uniforms was found near a Brooklyn cemetery Tuesday, police said. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n

Officers moved the box to the nearest precinct \u2013 located nearly 2 miles away on 16th Avenue \u2013 for \u201csafekeeping\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

An investigation is ongoing, the rep confirmed.<\/p>\n

\"PoliceCops sifted through the discarded box \u2013 containing pants, shirts, jackets and even hats \u2013 at the corner of 37th Street and Ninth Avenue Tuesday night, according to a video posted to X on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n

The discovery came less than 48 hours before Mayor Zohran Mamdani was inaugurated in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Some social media users had speculated there might be a connection to Mamdani\u2019s swearing in despite nothing outwardly connecting the events.<\/p>\n

Mamdani has been a harsh critic of the NYPD, and previously called for defunding the force during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests while describing officers as \u201cracist\u201d and \u201canti-queer.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cardboard box filled with official NYPD uniforms was found near a Brooklyn cemetery, police said Sunday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,98,303,57,9,24,197,63,103,104,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-89102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-brooklyn","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-life","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89102","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=89102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}