Third Body Found Floating In Brooklyn Waters In 3 Days

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — A body that was pulled from the water near the Brooklyn Army Terminal on Thursday is the third dead body to be found floating in Brooklyn waters in just three days.

Police said they found a man floating in the water near Brooklyn Army Terminal's Pier 4 just after 11:30 a.m. Emergency responders pulled the man to the shore and pronounced him dead just minutes later, an NYPD spokesperson said.

The discovery comes 24 hours after another man's body was found in the water just two miles north, near 28th Street and Second Avenue. That man was found around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and pronounced dead when he was pulled from the water.

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A third body was found this week on Tuesday. Police were sent to Erie Basin, an inlet of water near the Red Hook Channel, around 8:20 a.m. that day and found an unconscious woman in the water near 499 Van Brunt St. The woman was pronounced dead when she was pulled to shore.

The mysterious floating bodies, all of which have not yet been identified, come just a few days after human remains were found floating in the water off Coney Island Beach last week.

A severed leg was found near the New York Aquarium last Thursday and more human remains, which police did not describe in detail, were found a few days later amid rocks on W 5th Street, according to the Brooklyn Paper.

The medical examiner will determine the cause of death in all four cases and the investigations are ongoing.

Police said that so far the incidents do not seem to be connected. They are each being investigated separately, an NYPD spokesperson said.

"At this time there is no indication that these incidents are related," the spokesperson told Patch.