A rotting skeletal body was found under a Queens highway overpass Tuesday morning, cops said.
The grisly discovery was reported to cops just after 11 a.m., with the remains found in a vacant, doored-off storage area under the ramp of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway’s Exit 41 for Northern Boulevard in Jackson Heights, police and sources said.
The corpse was found in a vacant, doored-off storage area under the ramp of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway’s Exit 41 for Northern Boulevard in Jackson Heights, Queens. Peter Gerber The body was so severely decomposed that the person’s gender was not immediately known. Peter Gerber The body was so badly decomposed that cops weren’t immediately able to determine the person’s gender, authorities said.
The city medical examiner’s office will conduct a forensic investigation to determine the cause of death, too, police said.
It was not immediately clear who found the body or notified police.
