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2 days ago
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Search continues for missing girl last seen in water near Roosevelt Island
MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) – Police are still searching for a 15-year-old girl who went missing in the water near Roosevelt Island on Friday. The teenager went missing around 12:15 p.m., according to the NYPD. She was last seen in a bathing suit with flowers on it near 688 Main Street, police said. More Local News Police still do not know how she ended up in the water. Videos from the scene show police boats searching the East River as divers search underneath the water. Videos from the scene also show items like a bag, sneakers and books. Police told the New York Post that these items belong to the missing teenager. Locals told PIX11 News the scene is 'very shocking' for a peaceful and quiet area. Emily Rahhal is a digital reporter who has covered New York City since 2023 after reporting in Los Angeles for years. She joined PIX11 in 2024. See more of her work here and follow her on Twitter here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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3 days ago
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Friend urged vanished teen to get out of East River because she couldn't swim: source
The search for a teenager who vanished in the fast moving East River resumed Saturday, as it emerged that a friend told the 15-year-old victim to get out of the water — because she couldn't swim. The girl, who was wearing a floral bathing suit, was sitting on the Roosevelt Island rocks dipping her toes in the water when the pal saw her going all the way into the river around noon on Friday, cops said. Her buddy tried to warn her, telling the victim to 'get out of the water, you know you can't swim,' a police source said. But the fast-moving current dragged the girl away. Her friend went to get help, but when she returned, the teen was gone. Police who responded to the 12:15 p.m. 911 call found the distraught friend next to the water. Investigators searching for the teen found video that appeared to show her being swept up river, the police source said. 'The video shows her being dragged north,' according to the source. Cops found two books, a bag, sneakers and some clothing belonging to the teenager, whose identity hadn't been released Saturday afternoon. The NYPD boats were back on the river Saturday afternoon as investigators looked for the girl. Local resident Adrina Hegbeli, 77, said she was down by the river Friday and saw the girls before the incident. 'It is a tragedy,' she said Saturday. 'I have seven grandchildren and I was devastated.' Some parkgoers speculated Friday that the girl dropped her phone and jumped in the water to get it, but police had no witness accounts of that, an NYPD spokesman said. Additional reporting Brigitte Seltzer
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3 days ago
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15-Year-Old Girl Missing After She Dropped Into the East River off Roosevelt Island
A 15-year-old girl has gone missing in the East River near the Roosevelt Island Bridge in New York City, according to multiple reports It has been alleged that the river's strong currents swept her away while she was attempting to retrieve her phone on Friday, May 30 Several items have been recovered that are believed to belong to the missing teenager amid a search for herA 15-year-old girl who allegedly attempted to retrieve her phone from the East River is missing after being taken by its currents near the Roosevelt Island Bridge in New York City. At around 12:15 p.m. local time on Friday, May 30, authorities were alerted that a teenager had gone missing after she went into the water, the New York Post, CBS News New York and NBC New York reported. Upon arrival, police discovered the missing girl's friend beside the river. The friend stayed nearby with the authorities as the search continued into the afternoon. At the time of publication, the search recovered a few items believed to belong to the missing girl, including two books, a bag, sneakers, and clothing items. The teenager was wearing a bathing suit with flowers on it at the time she disappeared. The New York Police Department and the Fire Department of New York searched for her for several hours before having to suspend their search due to the weather conditions, per CBS News New York. Authorities have not confirmed why the girl went into the water. However, bystanders have alleged that she dropped her phone in the river and attempted to retrieve it, according to the Post. She was then allegedly caught in the river's strong currents. 'I'm in shock,' bystander Maria Gomez told the outlet. 'This never happens here. Everyone knows the dangers that's on [the East River], that current. It's sad.' 'My friend told me [she saw] a little girl fall in,' a man told the Post. 'She saw her going over the railing. She hopped the fence, she slipped on the rocks. That's what I heard. She was on the rocks, she slipped and fell in.' "I have never been in these waters, but I've heard that the current is pretty strong, especially around here," Roosevelt Island resident Zach Dokart told CBS New York. "It's a sad situation, I really hope they find her." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. A representative for the New York Police Department did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for more information on Friday. Read the original article on People
New York Times
3 days ago
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A Memoir of Divorce and Xenophobia, Narrated by a Clam
CLAM DOWN: A Metamorphosis, by Anelise Chen The narrator of Anelise Chen's off-kilter new memoir isn't Anelise Chen. At least, not exactly. Instead, the events of the book — Chen's divorce, a soul-searching trip to New Mexico, a reckoning with her family history — are told in the third person, a deliberate artistic choice that grants Chen 'a top-down view,' she writes, 'like seeing yourself from the perspective of a map.' Oh, and the protagonist of her story happens to be a clam. Yes, we are talking about the humble shelled sea creature, tight-lipped and tasty in chowders. On the page, it's not as strange as it sounds. 'The clam and her husband were sitting on a bench overlooking the East River,' reads a typical sentence. Chen adopts her clam persona after she notices that her mother keeps texting her to 'clam down' rather than 'calm down,' an opportune typo she seizes on and runs with for roughly 350 pages. Like clams, she too 'swallowed whatever was bothering her and worried it under her tongue until it gleamed.' As her marriage falls apart, Chen transforms — emotionally, at least, even if she isn't literally confined to the ocean floor. 'Clam Down,' then, is an exploration of the clam state of mind, and the benefits and great costs of shutting oneself off from others. It's a personal story, but its ambitions radiate out to familial and eventually even societal questions. What does it mean to be part of a certain family, or Asian American, or a clam? For Chen, these identities are all linked. Her father, Henry, also exhibits unmistakable clam-like tendencies: 'withdrawing, closing, retreating, hiding.' During her childhood, he spent a decade living alone in Taiwan, apart from his wife and daughters, attempting to create an ultrasecure accounting software named — incredibly — Shell Computing. 'Certainly, if she's a clam, it's because he's a clam,' she realizes on a visit home. 'They were all shut tight against one another. It was the classic Chen family coping mechanism.' To tell her story, she must tell her dad's; and she does this masterfully, with a novelist's ability to enter another person's head (Chen's previous book, 'So Many Olympic Exertions,' is a novel that deftly blends fiction and nonfiction). 'Clam Down' includes entire sections written from Henry's point of view, convincingly plunging the reader into the mind of a put-upon husband and father. 'For almost her whole life,' Henry grumbles about his daughter, 'whenever she need something big, she always wait until last minute in order to force me to give it for her. Almost like, you know, hostage situation.' Chen's rendering of a certain kind of Taiwanese American dad is almost painfully accurate: the blend of petty criticism and implicit affection, aggravated and funny at the same time. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
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4 days ago
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Search underway for 15-year-old girl who plunged into East River on Roosevelt Island: police
Cops and firefighters are scouring the East River for a missing 15-year-old girl who bystanders said plunged into the current after dropping her phone in the water Friday afternoon. Police responded to a 911 call on Roosevelt Island shortly after noon on reports of a missing teen — and found the missing girl's distraught pal next to the water, according to authorities and witnesses. 'I'm in shock,' bystander Maria Gomez told The Post. 'This never happens here. Everyone knows the dangers that's on [the East River], that current. It's sad.' The missing teen's friend sat nearby with police as the search continued into the afternoon. Two books, a bag, sneakers and some clothing sat on the hood of an NYPD squad car — the missing girl's belongings, police at the scene confirmed. Cops said the girl was wearing a bathing suit with flowers on it when she went into the water. 'My friend told me [she saw] a little girl fall in,' a man who asked to be identified only as Joel said. 'She saw her going over the railing. She hopped the fence, she slipped on the rocks. That's what I heard. She was on the rocks, she slipped and fell in.' Meanwhile, NYPD and FDNY boats continued to search the river near the scene, which is alongside the Roosevelt Island Bridge near 688 Main Street, police said. Cops did not confirm why the girl went into the water. But bystanders said it is believed she dropped her phone in and may have gone after it before she was allegedly caught in the strong East River currents.
