Body of elderly man found on the shore of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal

Police recovered the assemblage of an aged antheral discovered lying facedown connected the rocky enactment of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal connected Thursday.

A passerby spotted the 69-year-old antheral unconscious connected the banks of the famously polluted waterway adjacent Nevins and Butler Sts. astir 2:03 p.m., cops said.

Medics pronounced the unfortunate dormant astatine the scene. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner volition find the man’s origin of death.

Police analyse aft a assemblage was recovered connected the banks of the Gowanus Canal underneath the Hamilton Avenue Bridge successful Brooklyn, New York City connected Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (Gardiner Anderson / New York Daily News)

Images captured by a Daily News lensman amusement the gray-haired unfortunate lying facedown connected the rocks good supra the waterline with lone his feet and calves beneath the aboveground of the canal.

The Gowanus Canal is simply a 1.8-mile-long erstwhile concern proscription way and the tract of a $1.5 cardinal national biology cleanup started successful 2020.

A 2021 rezoning paved the mode for extended redevelopment of onshore surrounding the canal, including several buildings planned to scope up to 29 stories.