Warmer weather in the city means pretty cherry blossoms, outdoor cafes clogging sidewalks . . . and a reliable spike in the number of bodies found floating around in New York City’s waterways.

Yep, it’s a documented phenomenon. These “floaters” are the remains of people who ended up in the river during the winter, either by suicide, homicide, or accidentally.

Why do they reappear in spring? Frigid water often keeps a corpse submerged. But once temperatures rise, gases are produced in the body that force it to come to the surface . . . and get picked up by NYPD harbor boats.

The identities of many floaters never make it into the papers. But one turned out to be monologist Spalding Gray.

His body came up on the Brooklyn side of the East River in March 2004, two months after he’s thought to have jumped off the Staten Island Ferry.

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