By Alyssa Guzman and Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com

Published: 16:45 EDT, 8 March 2022 | Updated: 18:08 EDT, 8 March 2022

A human leg was discovered in the trash in Brooklyn on Monday, just a few days after a woman's dismembered torso was found stuffed into a shopping cart a few blocks away.

Police said a man was walking along Jamaica Avenue in the Cypress Hills neighborhood at around 3.30pm when he spotted what turned out to be a severed limb poking out of a discarded tire.

The leg had been cut from the knee down and there was a sock on the foot, police said, according to PIX11.

A severed human leg was discovered sticking out of a discarded tire on Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn on Monday. A passerby took a photo of the grisly find pictured on top  

A woman's torso was found inside a garbage bag in a shopping cart in Brooklyn on Thursday. A man who was passing by found the woman after he opened the bag. She did not have a head or limbs (pictured: garbage bags, that do not contain her body, on the street in Brooklyn on Thursday)

The grisly find was made less than four blocks from where police discovered a torso missing its head, arms and legs last Thursday.

The human remains belonging to an unidentified woman were found inside a large bag resting in a grocery store cart that was abandoned near the intersection of Pennsylvania and Atlantic avenues last Thursday.

Police have not officially linked the two grim discoveries, reported ABC 7 NY.

The Medical Examiner's Office is working to identify the person to whom the leg had belonged, and the identification of the torso also is still pending.  

The investigation into the back-to-back discoveries of human remains on Brooklyn's streets comes amid amid a huge spike in New York City crime.

The female corpse was found inside a garbage bag without a head or limbs by a passerby on Pennsylvania and Atlantic Avenues in Brooklyn around 1.45am on Thursday. 

The woman was found in a garbage bag, similar to these, around 1.45am on Thursday 

A man reportedly saw the garbage bag in the shopping cart and decided to take it but when he peeked inside where he made the grisly discovery.  

Police reported that the woman did not appear to have any gunshot or visible stab wounds, nor any identifying marks like tattoos. The body also did not appear to be decomposed, police said.  

The 75th Precinct determined the body was that of an adult woman and said the medical examiner will determine her cause of death and possibly identify her through DNA.

Authorities are now scouring surveillance footage in hopes of identifying the woman's attacker and the incident is under investigation, but locals are worried about safety.

A local student Cynthia Jimenez said they don't feel safe in the city, telling ABC 7: 'They say New York is a dream, an American dream, but I don't feel safe.' 

Construction shop owner Sung Hong, 64, who is of South Korean descent, said news of the decapitation have heightened his anxieties about the rising crime in New York City, especially those concerning Asian Americans. 

'It’s getting worse and worse,' he told The New York Times. 'I don’t know what’s going on. It’s like people have become crazy.'  

A local construction shop and pawn shop (pictured) were tapped off by police as they investigated the incident for many hours 

Local resident Violent Rodriguez told ABC 7: 'Oh my God, Jesus Christ, cause nowadays anyone is not safe here anymore, I don't know what to do because I work around the corner.'   

Asian Americans have experienced a 343 percent increase in hate crimes last year with 133 attacks. 

A few days ago, a bleach-blond homeless Army veteran was arrested on suspicion of racist attacks on seven Asian women. He allegedly hurled n-word slurs at NYPD cops after his apprehension.

Steven Zajonc, 28, was apprehended for the February 27 attacks on Wednesday, after barricading himself inside a bathroom at the New York Public Library and causing a standoff with the police.

His alleged attacks come after a spate of high-profile attacks on Asian-Americans in recent weeks - two of them deadly. Last week, Asian grandmother GuiYing Ma, 61, died after fighting for three months to recover from brain damage after being smashed in the face with a rock during a New York City street attack.

Overall crime is up almost 50 per cent in New York City.  

Crime in NYC is up almost 50 per cent as the city experiencing an enormous wave of crimes

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