Leading Cause of Death: Homelessness

A woman was found dead under a scaffolding in East Village after being tended to by a fellow homeless person who found the body at midnight.

He returned to the church Sunday morning, he said, only to find that Grace would not wake up. He watched as emergency medical technicians told him she was dead, Tony said. “I just broke out crying,” he said. “The tears wouldn’t stop.” The Police Department had not released the woman’s name by Sunday night. The police said that she was in her 30s and that while the cause of her death was under investigation, the death was not being investigated as a crime.