The missing girl is preliminarily identified as a 15-year-old from the Upper East Side.
Witnesses reported a girl, wearing a flower-patterned bathing suit, was sitting on the rocks along the water, and then she disappeared.
Crews were set up near the Roosevelt Island Bridge.
No further details have been provided.
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