Two men died after being found unconscious in the stairwell of a building in Manhattan’s Little Italy where they were doing work, cops said.
One of the victims, a 34-year-old man, died at the scene inside the stairwell on Mulberry St. near Hester St. about 3:45 p.m. Saturday, cops said. Medics rushed the second man to New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan Hospital but he could not be saved.
Relatives told ABC 7 New York the men were part of a work crew painting one of the apartments in the building and that their boss called the crew down for lunch but the men never responded.
“She go upstairs, she check him, but she find him on the floor,” Maria Juarez, the girlfriend of one the two men, told ABC 7.
Cops have not released the men’s names. The city medical examiner’s office will conduct autopsies to determine how both men died.
