Crime & Safety
Decomposing Body Found Outside Queens Apartment Building: NYPD, Report
The grisly discovery Sunday came after weeks of putrefying smells from bushes outside the Rego Park building, according to reports.
QUEENS, NY — A decomposing body was found in the bushes outside a Queens apartment building, according to police and reports.
The grisly discovery Sunday afternoon came after residents in the Rego Park building complained about a foul odor permeating the area for weeks, the New York Daily News first reported.
NYPD officers arrived at Queens Boulevard and 62nd Avenue to find an adult's body that couldn't immediately be identified as a man's or woman's, police officials told Patch.
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The Daily News reported the badly decomposed body was found in bushes underneath scaffolding at the building.
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