90-year-old woman who wandered outside during winter storm among 10 dead in New York City

A 90-year-old pistillate is among 10 dormant successful New York City aft she wandered extracurricular successful frigid temperatures during the wintertime tempest implicit the weekend, according to a neighbor.

Doreen Ellis, who had dementia, near her flat successful Brooklyn’s Crown Heights vicinity overnight, walked halfway down the artifact and into the backyard of different building, wherever she was recovered dormant Monday morning, her household and neighbors told Gothamist.

"She had done that [wandered out] before, but this was successful the summertime. Being that it's cold, you don’t deliberation that idiosyncratic volition spell outside," neighbour Junior Sharpe told the outlet. "She conscionable got lost."

Sharpe said Ellis was recovered wearing conscionable her bluish nightgown, headscarf and a azygous sock. A tiny achromatic shawl was recovered adjacent to Ellis, helium added.

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Ice floats connected the Hudson River successful beforehand of the New York City skyline, arsenic seen from Weehawken, N.J., Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani held a property league connected Tuesday, erstwhile helium confirmed that 10 radical person died successful the metropolis arsenic sub-freezing temperatures blasted overmuch of the U.S.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani stands adjacent to Lisa Garcia, a commissioner of New York City's Department of Environmental Protection, during a property conference, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, successful New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner told PIX11 News that six of the radical died overnight Friday, and 1 died overnight Saturday.

"We don’t yet cognize whether each lawsuit volition beryllium ruled hypothermia, but we request each New Yorker to beryllium connected alert, looking retired for their neighbors," Mamdani said. "This is the coldest upwind conditions that we person experienced successful this metropolis for 8 years."

A pistillate takes a representation of the New York City skyline and crystal connected the Hudson River, from Weehawken, N.J., Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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The National Weather Service said different wintertime tempest could deed parts of the East Coast this weekend.

"This could beryllium the coldest somesthesia seen successful respective years for immoderate places and the longest duration of acold successful respective decades," the agency’s Weather Prediction Center warned Tuesday.

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Officials successful states afflicted with terrible acold reported astatine slightest 50 deaths. They included 2 radical deed by snowplows successful Massachusetts and Ohio, 2 teenagers killed portion sledding successful Arkansas and Texas and a antheral recovered successful his location successful the Indianapolis country with nary heat.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.