{"id":129243,"date":"2026-02-10T21:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129243\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:01:21","slug":"new-york-city-extreme-cold-weather-leaves-18-dead-mamdani-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129243\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City extreme cold weather leaves 18 dead, Mamdani says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A total of 18 people have died as a result of a period of extreme cold weather in New York City, its mayor has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Since late January, the city has endured a cold snap, including 13 days of temperatures of 0C (32F) or below \u2013 one of the longest stretches of sub-zero weather New York has seen in six decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Over the weekend, another person &#8220;lost their life on the streets of our city,&#8221; Zohran Mamdani said on Monday, adding that &#8220;each life lost is a tragedy, and we will continue to hold their families in our thoughts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">While temperatures are set to rise this week, they remain below average, with Mamdani telling residents to &#8220;stay safe, stay indoors&#8230; [and] keep looking out for one another&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A total of 18 people have died as a result of a period of extreme cold weather in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-129243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129243","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=129243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}