{"id":90128,"date":"2026-01-05T19:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90128\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T19:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:35:07","slug":"body-found-in-water-near-outerbridge-crossing-investigation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90128\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in water near Outerbridge Crossing, investigation underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TONRRV3BKRAQVIEX2R6JRIZKUA\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Authorities are investigating after the body of a man was found in the water near the Outerbridge Crossing on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"D3XW7QETWBDXVJQEYCIJLZKHKE\">Delays due to police activity were reported on the span early in the morning rush hour, according to an alert from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RMAT52PJE5H55CHJF3NLRY6PNE\">Officers with the Port Authority Police Department responded to the Staten Island-bound Outerbridge Crossing at about 4:30 a.m., according to a spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MSAR2W4SNNEYFMDHNSOUKRCCJ4\">The initial report was of a disabled vehicle on the span. When officers arrived, the vehicle was unoccupied. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XL2PRA7W3RDRFO3DZIVYEY7PIQ\">After a canvass of the bridge and surrounding area, officers saw the body of an unidentified male floating in the water, the spokeswoman said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FCJGZIIPDZCXLMKT4VRESYYVNU\">The Perth Amboy Police Department, EMS, and the Middlesex County Medical Examiner also responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VKWTVUYLRNC7TKA6GGBOWYSDD4\">An investigation into the incident is underway, according to the Port Authority spokeswoman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Authorities are investigating after the body of a man was found in the water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-90128","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\/90128","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=90128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}