Overview

• A city-hired surveying crew discovered a skull, hip bone, and leg bone around 4 p.m. Monday on a vacant lot at 134-01 20th Ave. in College Point.
• The site lies behind a chain-link fence across from the parking lot of the College Point Shopping Center, which includes stores such as ShopRite and Target.
• Police from the 109th Precinct and NYPD homicide detectives processed the scene, and no arrests have been announced.
• The Office of Chief Medical Examiner is working to determine the cause of death and to identify the deceased.
• The find comes a week after sanitation workers uncovered a dismembered woman’s torso in Queens, and authorities have not indicated any link between the cases.