Decomposing body discovered floating in The Lake at Central Park
Decomposing body discovered floating in The Lake at Central Park | HG/FreedomNews.tv

Decomposing Body Discovered Floating in Central Park Lake: NYPD

A maintenance worker made a gruesome discovery in Central Park Friday afternoon, coming upon a man’s partially decomposed body floating in the murky green water of The Lake while on the job, according to police.

The body was found in The Lake near 79th Street and West Drive
The body was found in The Lake near 79th Street and West Drive | HG/FreedomNews.tv

It was just after 2:00 pm, when investigators say the worker for the Central Park Conservancy came upon the fully clothed body of a young man, believed to be in his 20s, in The Lake’s waters near 79th Street and West Drive.

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NYPD officers shut down trails near in that area of the park, keeping onlookers at bay as the body was removed from The Lake.

The man— whose body had already began to rot— was pronounced dead on arrival, and police say Medical Examiner’s Office will determine his cause of death.

NYPD officers keep park-goers away from the area where the body was found
NYPD officers keep park-goers away from the area where the body was found | HG/FreedomNews.tv

This is at least the third time a man’s dead body has been discovered in Central Park in the past year.

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Last January, a decomposing body was found in a thicket of bushes behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art near the 79th Street Transverse, believed to be that of a homeless man.

A decomposing body was found in Central Park behind the Met last January | Upper East Site
A decomposing body was also found in Central Park behind the Met last January | Upper East Site

Police say another man, Elvis Garcia, was strangled with a rope in a meadow behind the Central Park Zoo near East Drive and the 65th Street Transverse last September. 

A suspect has not been identified in that case.

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