Body Found In Search For Boy, 5, Who Fell Into Harlem River

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Authorities on Tuesday recovered the body of a child during the ongoing search for a five-year-old boy who fell into the Harlem River Saturday off Randall's Island, an NYPD spokesperson said.

Around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, a Parks Department employee saw the child's body in the water under the piers off the shore of Randall's Island near Field 7, a soccer field where the 5-year-old boy reportedly fell into the river while climbing a tree.

The Parks employee flagged a nearby NYPD patrol car, and paramedics who responded pronounced the child dead at the scene after removing the body from the river, the spokesperson said. Police have not confirmed whether the body is that of the boy who fell in Saturday afternoon, and whose name has not been released.

Multiple adults jumped into the water Saturday afternoon in an effort to rescue the boy but were unable to find him, the New York Post reported. Police were working with the U.S. Coast Guard and the fire department over the weekend to search the shoreline.