Crime & Safety
Bones Found At A Construction Site On The Lower East Side: Cops
Cops are investigating bones found at a construction site on the Lower East Side.

LOWER EAST SIDE, NY — Bones were found at a construction site on the Lower East Side Tuesday morning, an NYPD spokesperson confirmed.
Cops went to investigate just after 11 a.m. at Rivington and Forsyth streets where bones were found, the spokesperson said.
It was not immediately known Tuesday whether the bones found were human or animal bones, but an NYPD spokesperson later told the Bowery Boogie the bones belonged to an animal.
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Video from the Citizen App shows what appears to be a bone at the site near Sara D. Roosevelt Park with workers and police at the construction zone.
"There's ... the bone right there," a Citizen App user said on video. "See the bone?"
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