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vol. 64, no. 41
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w.p. doctor found dead in Manhattan
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Kirsten Cerveny of Manhasset died of cocaine overdose, police say BY B I LL S A N ANTONIO ANd JOe NIKIC A Manhasset woman was found dead Sunday morning in the lobby of an apartment building in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood. A police source told the Daily News on Monday that preliminary autopsy findings show that Kiersten Cerveny, 38, who practiced at Prohealth Care Associates LLP at 2 Hillside Ave. in Williston Park, was not a homicide victim, but instead died of a cocaine overdose. “Based on the preliminary finds, we are not treating this as a homicide case,” the source told the Daily News. “There is nothing at this point to suggest criminal activity. We have no indication, so far, of any force issue in her death.” A law enforcement official told Newsday on Tuesday that the preliminary autopsy revealed that Cerveny had cocaine in her system but further toxicology tests were
needed to determine how much was in her system and whether there were other drugs present as well. Cerveny was discovered “unconscious and unresponsive” around 8:30 a.m. in the vestibule of the building, located at West 16th Street near Seventh Avenue, according to published reports. She was later pronounced dead at Lenox Health Greenwich Hospital. The cause of her death will be determined by the city’s medical examiner. A New York City police department source told Newsday that authorities have obtained video that purportedly shows two men carrying Cerveny down the stairs, and have already interviewed one of the men in the video. According to a DNAInfo report, the mother of three died of an apparent drug overdose and was discovered with bruises around her neck that may have been caused by surgery. Continued on Page 49
Kids and adults alike celebrated the start of autumn at the Buckley Country Day School Fall Fair on Sept. 28-29. The annual event brought rides, food and games to the school, located on I.U. Willets Road in North Hills.
NHP Waldbaum’s sold to ShopRite parent company BY J Oe N I K I C
The financially beleaguered company also tentaThe Great Atlantic & Pacific tively agreed to sell 12 A&P, Tea Co. auctioned more than Pathmark and Waldbaum’s 100 of its supermarkets, in- stores, including the Pathmark cluding a Waldbaum’s in Great at 2335 New Hyde Park Road Neck, at a Manhattan law office in New Hyde Park, to ShopRite parent company WakeFern last Thursday and Friday.
Food Corp. for $40 million, according to documents filed in United States southern district bankruptcy court on Sept. 29. The WakeFern-purchased locations will be placed for auction on Oct. 8 if competing bids Continued on Page 49
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