{"id":113532,"date":"2026-01-27T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113532\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:20:09","slug":"11-nyc-area-deaths-believed-to-be-weather-related-amid-storm-cold-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113532\/","title":{"rendered":"11 NYC-area deaths believed to be weather-related amid storm, cold \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the New York City area digs out after getting blanketed by the weekend snow storm<\/a>, there is a new concern officials are focusing on: Frigid temperatures, believed to have been tied to multiple deaths in the city, are set to stick around for the near future.<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office said at least eight people were found dead outside as temperatures plunged between Saturday and Monday morning. The circumstances and causes of the deaths were not immediately clear and remain under investigation, but nevertheless, Mamdani warned that the danger is far from over.<\/p>\n

“This is an all hands on deck effort,” the mayor said.<\/p>\n

One of the those who died over the weekend was found at East 69th Street and First Avenue on the Upper East Side, while another was found at East 35th Street and Third Avenue. Others were found across the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens from Friday through Monday.<\/p>\n

The Mamdani administration believes the cold weather played at least a role in their deaths, and the mayor said some had previous interactions with city homeless shelters.<\/p>\n

“A number of those…who lost their lives had had interactions with our shelter system in the past. It is still too early to share a broader diagnosis or a cause of death,” Mamdani said Monday.<\/p>\n

Homeless outreach teams have been out taking 170 people into shelters under Code Blue protocols, which were upgraded to Enhanced Code Blue Monday night. That involves having more than 50 NYC hospitals, plus Department of Homeless Services drop-in centers and shelters, operating with a fully open-door policy to all.<\/p>\n

“Shelters have relaxed their intake policies, where typically you\u2019d have to go through a set of paperwork. What we\u2019re seeing for Cold Blue is that no one is turned away from these kinds of shelters,” said Mamdani.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, two deaths on Long Island were described by police as storm-related as well, both of which were in Nassau County. In Massapequa, a man died of a heart attack<\/a> while operating his snow blower, according to Nassau County police. In Floral Park, retired NYPD Officer Roger McGovern collapsed at his church while preparing to clear the snow for the congregation.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe weekend winter storm dumped anywhere from 7-15 inches of snow across Long Island, shutting down MacArthur Airport and leaving plenty of work for residents to clear their walks and driveways. Sadly, police said two deaths were linked to the storm. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

In New Jersey, a man was found by police unresponsive, lying on his back with a shovel in his hand. The 67-year-old was believed to be shoveling snow on the sidewalk at Beach Road and Martin Road in Verona. He was taken to Mountainside Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

Across the U.S., at least 32 deaths were reported in states dealing with severe cold, according to NBC News.\u00a0A fresh influx of artic air is expected to sustain freezing temperatures in places already\u00a0covered in snow\u00a0and ice. And it’s possible another winter storm could hit the NYC area<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n

Charlotte Kramon and Russ Bynum of The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the New York City area digs out after getting blanketed by the weekend snow storm, there is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[776,1066,9,24,55,54,56,335,806,133],"class_list":["post-113532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-long-island","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc-weather","tag-severe-weather","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}