{"id":126906,"date":"2026-02-08T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/126906\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:24:08","slug":"man-81-found-dead-on-rooftop-of-brooklyn-apartment-building-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/126906\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 81, found dead on rooftop of Brooklyn apartment building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An 81-year-old man was found dead on a Brooklyn apartment building rooftop, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim\u2019s body was discovered on top of the six-story apartment building <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/3310+Avenue+H,+Brooklyn,+NY+11210\/@40.6281931,-73.9483557,12z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c25b53251013b5:0x9e80eec102ed3bd8!8m2!3d40.631495!4d-73.9442609!16s%2Fg%2F11b8yln4w9?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIwNC4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA2N0gBUAM%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:on Avenue H near New York Ave.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">on Avenue H near New York Ave.<\/a> in Flatbush about 9:55 a.m. Saturday, cops said. His name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police could not say Sunday whether his death is believed to be cold related or what he was doing on the roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As of Saturday, 17 people have died citywide amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/07\/nyc-cold-weather-deaths-cause-historic-low-temps-alcohol-drugs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:historically cold temperatures;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">historically cold temperatures<\/a> that have gripped the city since Jan. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 81-year-old man was found dead on a Brooklyn apartment building rooftop, police said Sunday. The victim\u2019s body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7352,98,100,99,9,24,63,49204],"class_list":["post-126906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-apartment-building","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rooftop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126906","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=126906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}