Police have identified the dead man found floating in the Gowanus Canal on Monday afternoon as a 49-year-old Boerum Hill resident.
The body of Joe Gibson was spotted in the fetid waterway beneath the Union Street bridge at 3 pm, an officer said. Fire personnel fished Gibson, who was fully clothed, out of the channel and pronounced him dead on the scene, cops said.
The medical examiner’s office will perform an autopsy and try to determine the cause of death, police stated.
Grisly discovery: Joe Gibson's body was spotted floating under the Union Street Bridge.
The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan
