6-month-old boy found dead in NYC home: cops
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Add The New York Post on Google A 6-month-old boy was found dead in Brooklyn early Wednesday, cops said.
Common ground
The unresponsive newborn was found just after midnight in a home near Flatlands Avenue and East 99th Street in Canarsie, police said.
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 4 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.
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Claim 1: “A 6-month-old boy was found dead in Brooklyn early Wednesday”
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One web search result from Gothamist reports a 6-month-old boy found dead in Brooklyn early in the morning. Other results describe different incidents (a 7-month-old girl shot, a mother and 7-year-old boy), meaning there is no second independent source to corroborate this specific event.
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— Jandek is the musical project of Sterling Smith (born October 26, 1945), a Houston, Texas-based American lo-fi folk singer. Since 1978, Jandek has independently released over 120 albums while granting…
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— Taxi Brooklyn is an action comedy police procedural television series, produced by EuropaCorp Television. The series stars Chyler Leigh and Jacky Ido, and is based upon the film Taxi written by Luc Be…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Brooklyn
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— "The Wednesday Incident" is the sixteenth episode of the second season of the American television police sitcom series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. It is the 38th overall episode of the series and is written b…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wednesday_Incident
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Claim 2: “The unresponsive newborn was found just after midnight in a home near Flatlands Avenue and East 99th Street in Canarsie”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of technical support for unresponsive PCs and general Wikipedia entries for Flatlands Avenue and the Flatlands neighborhood. There is no evidence provided that links an unresponsive infant to a residence near Flatlands Avenue and East 99th Street.
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— Flatlands is a neighborhood in the southeast part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The current neighborhood borders are roughly defined by the Bay Ridge Branch to the north, Avenue U to th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatlands,_Brooklyn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatlands,_Brooklyn
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— Flatlands Avenue is a major street in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It runs approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) east to west; from Avenue N and East 35th Street in Marine Park in the west, to Forb…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatlands_Avenue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatlands_Avenue
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— This article provides a listing (with simple descriptions, where possible) of the streets in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, including Fort Hamilton, the last active-duty military post in New Y…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brooklyn_thoroughfares
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brooklyn_thoroughfares
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Claim 3: “the infant was found with no signs of trauma”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists of sports radio station links (ESPN Radio Albany) which are completely irrelevant to the claim regarding an infant's trauma.
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— 104.5 The Team ESPN Radio, a Townsquare Media station, Albany\'s Sports Talk Leader – WTMM.
https://1045theteam.com/
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— Jan 12, 2026 · Open Mike With MJ Is Now Live On All Podcasting Platforms! Open Mike with me MJ is live wherever you get your podcasts courtesy of Townsquare Media here at WTMM 104.5 The Team ESPN Radi…
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— Listen live to 104.5 The Team ESPN Radio online for free.
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Claim 4: “EMS rushed the baby to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead”
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The evidence provided consists of dictionary definitions of 'infant' and general Wikipedia entries for East New York and New Jersey townships. There is no evidence mentioning Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center or the transport of an infant there.
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— East New York is a residential neighborhood in the eastern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are roughly the Cemetery Belt…
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— Freehold Township is a township in western Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Crisscrossed by several major highways, the township is a commercial hub for Central New Jersey (home to th…
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— Middletown Township is a township in northern Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township was the state's 20th-most-populous municipality and th…
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