{"id":130649,"date":"2026-02-11T23:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130649\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:34:21","slug":"nyc-cold-snap-death-toll-rises-to-19-after-man-found-under-manhattan-bridge-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130649\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC cold snap death toll rises to 19 after man found under Manhattan Bridge, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"ek3l1\">New York City\u2019s death toll from the recent stretch of extreme cold has risen to 19 after a man was found unresponsive on the street under the Manhattan Bridge Tuesday night, a City Hall official said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"eq14o\">The latest death brings the total number of people found dead outdoors during the cold spell to 19. An additional seven people <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/nearly-2-dozen-people-froze-to-death-in-nyc-during-recent-cold-stretch-officials\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">died<\/a> from hypothermia-related causes at private residences over the same period, according to a city official.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"32ifc\">The city updated its count on Wednesday after the individual was found unresponsive on Tuesday evening. Officials did not release the person\u2019s name or additional details.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"d8r6b\">\u201cAs Mayor Mamdani has said, the cold persists, but so does this city,\u201d said Matthew Rauschenbach, a mayoral spokesperson. \u201cLet\u2019s keep looking out for one another. If you see someone in need, call 311.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"eihqg\">The prolonged stretch of frigid temperatures and snowfall prompted the city to enter a Code Blue on Jan. 19. A continuous Code Blue was issued on Jan. 31. The city exited Code Blue on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cg2m7\">Officials said cold weather protocols will remain in place through the end of the week, including expanded outreach, increased warming center capacity and public service announcements coordinated with LinkNYC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s death toll from the recent stretch of extreme cold has risen to 19 after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-130649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130649","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=130649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}