A body was found this evening in the water behind the nature center on Avenue U.
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I knew something was wrong. I have been hearing sirens for the past half hour. Please provide an update ASAP.
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i heard them from all the way by N&D Pizza.
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Not nice! Biff may not post the most popular opinions on here, but to wish that on anyone is just souless.
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Why is there no cleanup or development along that stretch
of the park? It appears our local Parks Dept doesn’t want to acknowledge that that area is the lover’s lane of drug adicts, sexual deviants & trash dumpers at night. Maybe they should clear the land and add some fill and make a real park area up to the waters edge like they were most willing to do by the Brooklyn Bridge.
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There is no development along that stretch because it is a protected nature preserve and natural salt marsh. It is not only home to a number of species of bird but also serves as a nesting ground for crabs, shrimp and sport fish before they grow and venture out into open water. Also I can see your point with people doing drugs and dumping garbage but sexual deviants? I have never heard somebody say “I wanna get laid lets head down to the marsh lands”
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Thank you. That was a very well said response. What the other person fails to realize, it could be an accident, or that body could have been put in the water at any number of places and washed up there. We do not have any information as to what happened. As for the phrase “I wanna get laid lets head down to the marsh lands” I could see a 16yo boy saying that and a girl saying get lost. But 99% of 16yo boys don’t put bodies in the water. Dumping garbage in the weeds and parks, I never understood that. There are thousands of trash cans in the city. I can see drugs being done, in the 70′s my friends and I would go to the park and smoke pot and drink, but we always threw our empty cans and bottles in the trash can. We may have gotten high, but we still liked a clean park.
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Gee, That was one of my best lines, in the old Mackens days LOL..LOL
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A clean up I can understand as far as trash goes. Developing an area has never detered crime, in fact, crime has risen in any area that has been developed. Since this is a protected natural preserve, it is state funded. If you were to turn it into a city park, it would be left unkept, unless you have volunteers. The city can’t take care of the parks they have let alone add a new one. Just walk around the city and take a good look at the parks.
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Waiting for an update !! So what happened??
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I understand the victim has been identified but the family says they want to keep his name Anonymous.
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I was thinking it was a made up story breaking news then nothing.It wasn’t on the news or in the paper was it someone from down here?
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I saw the firemen dragging the body from the water yesterday the helicopter flying over my building made me look out
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One of my daughters friends said it was on the news that it was a 60yr old male don’t know how true it is though but there was a clip on the news
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http://m.nypost.com/p/news/local/nypd_blotter/nypd_daily_blotter_JXGi4L0BHEiQGPGy9w7w0J
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The body of a man found floating in a Marine Park salt marsh Friday has been identified, cops said.
The parents of Alex Bender, 45, who lived nearby, confirmed that the body was that of their son whom they had reported missing earlier that day, police sources said.
A passer-by had discovered the body near the Salt Marsh Nature Center on Avenue U near East 33rd Street at about 2:30 p.m. and alerted a park ranger, who called 911, authorities said.
Sources said the man suffered from depression, and no criminality is suspected.
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May his soul R.I.P.
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One of my cousin said it was on the news that it was a 59yr old male don’t know how true it is though but there was a clip on the news!!
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[...] in the hours during and after the recovery, neighbors described the scene and their concerns on GerritsenBeach.net‘s comment [...]
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All we know from this is his name and age. The rest of the story is just excerpts from our post on here.
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100% body was found
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Biff, you’re just a softie at heart.
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I agree that statements made in poor taste have no place here. But as of yet, we still have no information. We do not know if it murder, an accident or suicide. We need to know the facts before we say his life was taken from him.
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