{"id":90523,"date":"2026-01-06T00:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90523\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:11:08","slug":"corpse-found-inside-burning-dumpster-near-nyc-strip-mall-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90523\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpse found inside burning dumpster near NYC strip mall: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A corpse was discovered inside a burning dumpster near a Queens strip mall early Monday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The grisly discovery was made before 7 a.m. when they found an adult male\u2019s body inside the flaming receptacle outside the Conduit Plaza strip on North Conduit Avenue near Springfield Boulevard in Springfield Gardens, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FDNY descended on the scene when they received a call of a dumpster fire with someone possibly inside, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38102747\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/man-found-dead-inside-dumpster-118343212.jpg\" alt=\"The adult man was discovered minutes before 7 a.m. inside the flaming receptacle in front of the Conduit Plaza strip on North Conduit Avenue near Springfield Boulevard in Springfield Gardens, police said. \" class=\"wp-image-38102747\"  \/>The adult man was discovered inside a burning dumpster in front of the Conduit Plaza strip on North Conduit Avenue in Springfield Gardens, police said.  Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>The man, whose\u00a0age was not immediately known, was pronounced dead on the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze was extinguished by the first FDNY units at the scene, and its cause remains under investigation by fire marshals, the department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38102751\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/man-found-dead-inside-dumpster-118343218.jpg\" alt=\"The adult man was discovered minutes before 7 a.m. inside the flaming receptacle in front of the Conduit Plaza strip on North Conduit Avenue near Springfield Boulevard in Springfield Gardens, police said. \" class=\"wp-image-38102751\"  \/>The city medical examiner\u2019s office will officially determine how the man died, cops said. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>The city medical examiner\u2019s office will officially determine how the man died, and the investigation is ongoing, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Conduit Plaza is home to Popeye\u2019s, Dunkin\u2019, Subway, and a laundromat, among other businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A corpse was discovered inside a burning dumpster near a Queens strip mall early Monday, cops said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[194,544,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,8192,122,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-90523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-fdny","9":"tag-fires","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-nypd","17":"tag-police-investigations","18":"tag-queens","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90523","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=90523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}