{"id":152280,"date":"2026-03-04T11:10:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/152280\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:10:55","slug":"mamdani-administration-says-7-more-people-died-inside-nyc-homes-due-to-cold-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/152280\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani administration says 7 more people died inside NYC homes due to cold exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"

The death toll from the cold snap that gripped New York City for several weeks rose to 29 as city officials on Tuesday acknowledged seven more people died of hypothermia inside homes.<\/p>\n

City Hall did not provide further information on whether the people lacked heat in their buildings. But the growing number of deaths raises questions about whether Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s administration did enough to prepare vulnerable New Yorkers for a record stretch of freezing temperatures that started around Jan. 23 and lasted until Feb. 10.<\/p>\n

Nearly half of those who died of cold exposure \u2014 14 \u2014 were found inside private residences. Another 15 people died outside, according to officials.<\/p>\n

The latest count reflects the finalized investigations from city medical examiners, who found three deaths initially thought to be cold-related were from overdoses and one was cardiac-related.<\/p>\n

The New York Post on Tuesday first reported the additional indoor cold deaths.<\/p>\n

During the recent blizzard that walloped the city, Mamdani increased homeless outreach<\/a> by more than doubling the number of warming facilities. There are no known deaths at this time from the blizzard, officials said.<\/p>\n

The mayor said last month that his administration sought to make adjustments after the earlier snowstorm in January.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re always looking to hold ourselves to a standard of excellence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death toll from the cold snap that gripped New York City for several weeks rose to 29…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-152280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152280","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=152280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}