"CROWN HEIGHTS - A 90-YEAR-OLD WOMAN was discovered unresponsive on a Crown Heights street in front of an apartment building on Monday morning, Gothamist reports ."
"This brings the total number of people found dead outdoors over the weekend to eight, following days of deathly low temperatures and Winter Storm Fern."
"Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Monday that the city had helped over 170 people into shelters over the weekend, while Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park said that three individuals were forcibly hospitalized."
""An individual who is not appropriately dressed, who is wet, who is unable to acknowledge that there are real dangers, that is the kind of instance, particularly in this weather, where we will take somebody to the hospital," Park said during a press conference."
Emergency responders found a 90-year-old woman unresponsive on a Crown Heights street and pronounced her dead at the scene. The death raised the weekend total of people found dead outdoors to eight after days of deathly low temperatures and Winter Storm Fern. Police are withholding the woman's identity pending family notification, and the city's medical examiner will investigate. City officials reported helping over 170 people into shelters and forcibly hospitalizing three individuals. Authorities declared a Code Blue emergency for rough sleeping, dispatched outreach teams, and urged residents to call 911 or 311 about people sleeping outdoors.
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