by Jen G 
Last night, I received a text from a friend and trusted local resource – Meg from Dandelion Wine, “Dude. They just found a body floating in the river off the got pier.” A girl ran into the wine shop and said she was taking a sunset selfie with her dog when she noticed the crowd and a police boat pulling a dead body out of the water.
When I get news this breaking,…
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Why do you have yo put yourself in the story? No one gives a flying fuck that YOU got a text.
The body was recovered down Manhattan Ave in Newtown Creek, not the India Street pier FYI.
Thanks for the info Kori.
Lol manhattan avenue is blocks away from newtown creek.
Newtown creek is actually a factory not a body of water.
um?
Wondering if it has anything to do with this story:
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/37/27/dtg-man-missing-in-east-river-2014-07-04-bk_37_27.html
The tone of this post and the one on Free Williamsburg are more suited to bitching about a new condo development. A young man is dead, and I think you can assume he has friends that read this. Report the facts and offer your condolences to Steven Middleton’s family, you don’t need to post those tweets, texts, or that pointlessly long account. None of them are informative, and they are all pretty disrespectful.
Hi Matthew-
Thanks for your comment and sorry for offending you. I had no information to go on other than those accounts and tweets. No other news outlet had reported on it, so the only valid and trusted information I had was what readers who saw it first hand sent to me. I meant no harm or disrespect. It’s very sad what happened to this young man. Jen G
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/body-found-newtown-creek-missing-brooklyn-man-cops-article-1.1850729
Here’s why I wrote that one tweet. Wife baby, sis and I walked down to the hoopla on India. Saw an ambulance putting away an empty stretcher. All the cop cars and firetrucks took off and we walked down to the pier. Some teen boy showed us the body floating by the wood pillars by India in video footage on his phone. He told us that the body was a light skinned kid with a mohawk and only in boxer shorts, face down. He said police boats dragged the body away with ropes around his neck. To where there could be less people watching we guessed. At the end of Manhattan ave.