Man Killed In Upper East Side Apartment, Police Say

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The New York City Police Department is investigating the mysterious death of an Upper East Side man as a homicide, police said.

Police officers conducting a wellness check at an apartment on East 83rd Street between Park and Lexington Avenues discovered the 64-year-old man's body face-down in his living room on Wednesday night, police said. The man was unconscious and suffering a deep wound to his head, police said.

Medics pronounced the man dead at the scene, police said. The city medical examiner's office will conduct an autopsy to determine the official cause of death.

Police did not reveal the man's identity and have not made any arrests. The homicide investigation is ongoing, an NYPD spokesperson said.

Wednesday's homicide is the first in more than two years on the Upper East Side, according to crime statistics collected by the NYPD's 19th Precinct. The 19th precinct did not record a murder in all of 2019. Crimes such as felony assault and misdemeanor assault have dropped in the neighborhood since 2019, according to the precinct's stats, but robberies have nearly tripled year to date.