Decomposing human remains found under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Jackson Heights: NYPD

By Bill Parry Posted on April 8, 2026

Police from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights made a grisly discovery beneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway on Tuesday morning after responding to a 911 call of a person in need of medical attention, just after 11 a.m.

Officers on April 7 found the badly decomposing skeletal remains of a human in a Department of Transportation storage area near Exit 41 on the BQE on Northern Boulevard along the Woodside and Jackson Heights border. It is unclear if a DOT worker discovered the remains.