Human remains have been discovered on the shoreline of Brooklyn Bridge Park, marking the third time in a month that police have recovered bones from the iconic landmark.
New York City police officers responded to a 911 call about bone fragments along the shore of 10 Dock Street around 7 p.m. Saturday.
The video shows officers combing rocks along the water in front of Jane’s famous carousel, which was built in 1922 and donated to the park in 2011 after years of restoration.
The woman who discovered the bones said she was looking intentionally after learning that other remains had been found in the same area the previous week.
“I wondered how the bones could possibly be near a carousel. I looked at the rocks around the carousel and, lo and behold, I saw them,” said Brooklyn resident Huntly Cooper. Women’s Association of North America (WABC).
Human remains were discovered on the shore of Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday
![Horror: Police make morbid discoveries on a carousel in an iconic park in New York City 7 A woman found part of a spine, police found a skull and other bone fragments, and another person discovered a femur and smaller bones.](https://whatsnew2day.com/wp-content/uploads/cwv-webp-images/2024/09/1725224256_129_Horror-Police-make-morbid-discoveries-on-a-carousel-in-an.jpg.webp)
A woman found part of a spine, police found a skull and other bone fragments, and another person discovered a femur and smaller bones.
Cooper said he found part of a spinal column. Patrol officers found a skull and other fragments, while another observer found a femur and smaller bones near the carousel.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has been notified and is responding. The investigation is ongoing, the New York Police Department told DailyMail.com.
On August 19, a city Parks Department enforcement officer found a skull and some bones along the same shoreline.
Photographs from the scene show members of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner placing the remains on a rocky shoreline.
![Horror: Police make morbid discoveries on a carousel in an iconic park in New York City 9 On August 19, a police officer with the city's Parks Department found a skull and some bones along the same shoreline (pictured).](https://whatsnew2day.com/wp-content/uploads/cwv-webp-images/2024/09/Horror-Police-make-morbid-discoveries-on-a-carousel-in-an.jpeg.webp)
On August 19, a police officer with the city’s Parks Department found a skull and some bones along the same shoreline (pictured).
Others, as well as members of the New York Police Department, were then seen searching the rocks with cadaver-sniffing dogs in their effort to find more remains.
A woman said News 12 Brooklyn He was able to see crews handling a skull, a hip bone and a femur.
A few days later, on August 21, a femur and a couple of smaller bones were discovered in the same area.
Police told the local news station that both sets of bones found before Saturday came from the same person.
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