Jennifer Millman

Rubber Fingers in Garbage Under FDR Overpass Spark Police Probe

A seemingly grisly discovery -- what looked like pieces of a human hand -- in the trash under an FDR overpass sparked a large police response Monday, but the scene was cleared quite quickly: That's because the fingers were rubber. 

Law enforcement sources familiar with the case tell News 4 the apparent "body parts" found in the garbage under the FDR overpass near East 23rd Street and Avenue C shortly before noon were rubber, nothing nefarious at all.

Evidence collection teams responded to run biological tests but it didn't take long to determine the hand parts were not real. A cleaner had found the bag earlier.

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