{"id":119415,"date":"2026-02-02T00:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119415\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T00:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:27:07","slug":"police-probe-death-of-59-year-old-man-in-nyc-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119415\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe death of 59-year-old man in NYC apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/\" title=\"Navigate to Crime &amp; Safety\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Safety<\/a>Published: Feb. 01, 2026, 7:08 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AX3IHSOZPVE45N2H7DV4HRWRXQ\">A 59-year-old man was found dead inside a Queens apartment building Friday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WB7VLHA7KRC7XBLEB5BK2A7QTI\">Officers responded to 20-50 Nameoke Ave. in Far Rockaway around 2:40 p.m. on Jan. 30 after receiving a 911 call about an unconscious man, according to an NYPD spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5U4CDRYXJJHJLIBYS4CKZQUUSY\">When officers arrived, they discovered the man unresponsive with trauma to his head and face. FDNY\/EMS pronounced him dead at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CFPR3JFZKFFRVNC6F2UVBGQYFE\">Police have not released the man\u2019s identity pending family notification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VYZ5XS7KARHH3MIW3U5WJF6MWE\">The body was transferred to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XH2EZZ7XGRE37M5U6OFEGTKO6M\">No arrests have been made as the remains ongoing, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Scott R. Axelrod is a breaking news reporter for the Staten Island Advance\/SILive.com. He covers a range of topics from crime and trending entertainment news to profiling the borough&#8217;s most unique residents. He&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime &amp; SafetyPublished: Feb. 01, 2026, 7:08 p.m. A 59-year-old man was found dead inside a Queens apartment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,7575,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-119415","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-sc0905","12":"tag-staten-island","13":"tag-staten-island-headlines","14":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119415","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=119415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}