{"id":113852,"date":"2026-01-27T14:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113852\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:11:24","slug":"report-8-people-found-dead-in-nyc-during-snowstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113852\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: 8 people found dead in NYC during snowstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RFZISJ3Y2BC4JJFRZVHD6JNIHU\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Authorities are investigating the deaths of several people during the snowstorm in New York City, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NNWRGXT2UJAHPHD6YQ3KGGKGLE\">Eight people were found dead outdoors on Sunday and Monday in the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/weather\/weather-stories\/deaths-11-people-nyc-weather-related-bitter-cold\/6450286\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/weather\/weather-stories\/deaths-11-people-nyc-weather-related-bitter-cold\/6450286\/\">News 4 New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TJQ2ZIIGFFDODONLSIFHXM74XE\">During a news conference on Monday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was questioned about the deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WA3CXKEI7RF5TCHH4EXSB2QBVI\">\u201cI think that the difficulty we have, frankly, is that it is still too early to attribute the cause of death, and therefore, it\u2019s too early to tie it to the storm specifically,\u201d the mayor said about the deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"K3PJC7IMXBEHJLMCMV3QYOWRTU\">The mayor said officials are awaiting autopsy reports to determine the cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Authorities are investigating the deaths of several people during the snowstorm in New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-113852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113852","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=113852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}