Snow shovelers on Long Island made a gruesome discovery Monday — a dead body buried beneath the snow — while clearing a path after the chart-topping blizzard pummeled the area.
Workers shoveling near a housing complex on Parkcenter Drive in Deer Park found the body of a man underneath the snow near a walkway around 3:45 p.m., according to the Suffolk County Police Department.
Police responded and pronounced the man dead at the scene, cops said.
Detectives believe the man — whose identity is being withheld pending the notification of his next of kin — died in a non-criminal manner. It’s not yet clear if the man was homeless or why he was outside in the storm.
The Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner will perform an autopsy to determine the official cause of death, police added.
The man’s death comes as part of Suffolk County experienced record-breaking snowfall overnight during Winter Storm Hernando.
Babylon, the town that includes Deer Park, got hammered with 24 inches of snow as of 1 p.m., according to the latest tallies from the National Weather Service.
Nearby, in the five boroughs, no deaths tied to the blizzard had been reported as of early afternoon, according to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“We are not aware of any deaths related to this blizzard on our city streets or in public areas,” Mamdani said at a press conference in Brooklyn.
Hizzoner came under fire for not getting homeless New Yorkers out of the cold after the city’s last snowstorm and dangerous freeze, when at least 19 people died outside between Jan. 24 and Feb. 7 — 15 of whom died from hypothermia.
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