SCHENECTADY — City police are investigating after a body was found wedged between a moored boat and the shore of the Mohawk River late Friday morning.

Officers responded shortly after 11 a.m. in the area between Washington Avenue and Cucumber Alley. An autopsy was scheduled for Saturday, police said in an early evening press release.

The Rev. Richard Carlino, the pastor at St. John the Evangelist and St. Anthony's churches, found the body when he went out to work on his pontoon boat at about 11:10 a.m.

Carlino said it was "quite obvious" the victim "had been deceased for quite some time."

The boat is moored behind Carlino's home on Washington Avenue in the city's Stockade neighborhood.

Carlino called police, who remained at the scene for hours after the discovery.

A police spokesman said the body was too badly decomposed to determine if it was a man or a woman. Police said they cannot yet say if the death is a crime. Schenectady has not had a homicide reported this year.

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The body was found in a small nook of the river that pokes into the land between the Stockade and Gateway Landing, a small park near Schenectady County Community College.