Rotting body of man found in Staten Island home after 911 caller reported foul odor: cops, sources

A man’s rotting body was found inside a Staten Island home yesterday when cops were summoned to the scene for a foul odor, cops and sources said.The unidentified man was discovered just after noon “significantly decomposed” inside a multi-family home on Housman Avenue near Richmond Terrace in Port Richmond, according to police and law enforcement sources. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Officers were dispatched to the scene when someone called 911 reporting a putrid stench, the sources said.The man’s cause of death will be determined by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The grisly discovery came one day after skeletal remains were discovered in a vacant Manhattan brownstone, police said. Officers stumbled upon the skeletonized body after responding to a call at the building on East 115th Street between Second and Third Avenues in East Harlem around 3:45 p.m.on Wednesday, authorities said. A forensic examination is underway to confirm the identity of the remains. And last week, a man was arrested and charged with allegedly hiding a skeletal body in his apartment under piled-up junk on a Brooklyn couch, cops and prosecutors said.Jose Rivera, 53, was busted July 3 and charged with concealment of a human corpse in connection to the disturbing discovery a day earlier inside the building on Union Street near Utica Avenue in Crown Heights, police said.The man’s body was so decomposed that the city medical examiner’s office has not yet been able to determine how he died, according to a criminal complaint....