{"id":120726,"date":"2026-02-02T23:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120726\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T23:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:48:06","slug":"death-toll-rises-to-16-in-nyc-mamdani-said-none-lived-in-homeless-encampments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120726\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll rises to 16 in NYC, Mamdani said none lived in homeless encampments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen people have died outdoors in New York City during the extended stretch of extreme cold, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/mamdani100days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> said Monday, as the city marked its 11th consecutive day of below-freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>According to the mayor, preliminary findings show hypothermia played a role in 13 of the deaths, while three appear to be overdose-related. Final determinations are still pending from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. \u201cEach of these lives lost is a tragedy,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/nyc.gov\/mayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mamdani<\/a> said. \u201cMy heart is with the families of those mourning their loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/weather\/extreme-cold-death-toll-nyc-mamdan-02022026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tExtreme cold: Death toll rises to 16 in NYC, Mamdani said none lived in homeless encampments &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Sixteen people have died outdoors in New York City during the extended stretch of extreme cold, Mayor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52854,52855,48977,48978,51434,22925,9,1172,56,63,65,64,52856,613,308,52857,19641,51436,52858,49909,133,51438],"class_list":["post-120726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-city-sanitation","tag-code-blue-emergency","tag-extreme-cold","tag-homeless-outreach","tag-hypothermia-deaths","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-weather","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nyc-government","tag-pm-newsletter","tag-public-safety","tag-shelter-expansion","tag-snow-removal","tag-street-homelessness","tag-vulnerable-populations","tag-warming-centers","tag-weather","tag-winter-storm-response"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120726","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=120726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}