NEW York City officials are hoping that the public may be able to identify the remains of a man who died decades ago by his striking clown tattoo.

The young man’s body was found at the Delancey Street subway station in the Lower East Side on August 8, 2000 — and he has remained unidentified ever since.

But forensic anthropologists working with the New York City Office of the Chief Examiner are now sharing key information about the man that could lead to his identification, according to local news station WPIX.

Officials said the man had a memorable “killer clown” tattoo on his upper right arm with the name “Elizabeth” written in cursive underneath.

“It definitely looked like a 1990s-style tattoo to me,” Michelle Myles, a local tattoo artist and owner of Daredevil Tattoos on Division Street, told WPIX. 

“When I was tattooing on the Lower East Side in the 1990s, that was a very popular tattoo to get. All the gangsters basically wanted these mean, killer clowns,” she said.

He also had two vertical scars on his torso.

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When they found the man, he had short dark hair slicked back and had only been dead for a few hours.

He was from a Hispanic background, 5 feet 11 inches tall, and aged between 16 and 20 years old.

The Chief Examiner’s Office disinterred the man’s body in 2010 to take a DNA sample that they ran through modern databases in the hopes of finding a familial match, but no new information surfaced.

When that effort failed, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children offered to provide a forensic artist to draw a realistic image of the man to help in the search.

“We’ll use 3-D scanning technology to scan the skull, and that will give us the replica for a 3-D facial reconstruction,” Dr. Justin Goldstein, a forensic anthropologist at the Chief Examiner’s Office, told WPIX.

Then they used a morgue photo to help create the final image.

“So for us, it’s opening of the eyes and presenting the living depiction of that unidentified child or young man or woman… because we would not circulate morgue pictures,” Colin McNally, a supervising forensic artist, explained to local reporters.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children maintains a popular Facebook page where they circulate reconstructed images of people they are trying to identify to the public.

So far, the organization says they have helped identify the remains of over 300 people since 2010.

The Chief Examiner’s Office said that hundreds of other bodies remain unidentified in New York City dating back decades.