Police pulled a body from the East River in Dumbo on Tuesday.
A passerby saw a man’s body in the water near the Dumbo ferry terminal on Old Fulton Street around 6:45 a.m. on Feb. 25 and called 911, according to authorities. The NYPD’s Harbor Unit responded to the scene and pulled the man, who was unconscious and unresponsive, out of the river.
Emergency medical personnel declared the man dead on the scene. Police did not share details of the his age or identity, and his cause of death was not immediately clear.
The city’s medical examiner will investigate and determine a cause of death, per the NYPD. News12 reported that the body had a life preserver when it was found, but the NYPD could not confirm that information.
The discovery came days after a fatal boating incident in the Ambrose Channel, several miles south of Breezy Point, Queens. One person, 52-year-old Vernon Glasford, is still missing from the accident, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, which suspended its search for Glasford’s body on Monday. It was not immediately clear if the two incidents were connected.
