As DNAinfo reported, the man reached into the trash to retrieve a discarded potted plant and found the organ inside a pink box.
Per the Daily News, who first reported on the discovery:
The heart appeared to be human, but police brought the item to the city Medical Examiner’s Office to confirm.
Updated 10/13
Likely a pig's heart, per DNAinfo.
These conceptual pop-up restaurants are getting weirder and weirder.
ReplyDeleteCould be a pig heart. A friend of mine got one from the butcher once and sent it to her ex on Saint Valentine's Day. He was appropriately horrified.
ReplyDeleteProbably another offering to the Sun God.
ReplyDeleteOh, forget I said "another," ok?
Heart bowl?
ReplyDeleteHeart in a hoof!
ReplyDeleteGorjira you're on to something! Acai, in a heart, served by Lisa Bonet.
ReplyDeleteIt's like Tuli Kupferberg crossed with Temple of Doom.
ReplyDeleteThis city'll eat your heart out, kid.
ReplyDeleteHoof hearted..?
ReplyDeleteOn Aug. 25 a possible human heart was found in Norwalk Ohio
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/us/has-murder-come-to-town-this-heart-tells-no-tales.html?_r=0
http://www.livescience.com/56136-heart-plastic-bag-test-human.html
Serial?
Yep, pig heart, I figured so.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161012/east-village/riis-houses-human-pig-heart-found?utm_source=Lower+East+Side+%26+East+Village&utm_campaign=90eda6035c-Mailchimp-NYC&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c7d8aa1b85-90eda6035c-137411309