{"id":454393,"date":"2025-12-18T00:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/454393\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T00:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:17:13","slug":"nyc-woman-72-found-dead-on-sidewalk-outside-new-york-botanical-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/454393\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC woman, 72, found dead on sidewalk outside New York Botanical Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 72-year-old woman was mysteriously found dead on the sidewalk outside the New York Botanical Garden this week, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The senior, identified Wednesday as Lydia Marzan, was discovered lifeless around 6:50 a.m. Tuesday, sprawled out on the sidewalk in front of the national historic landmark on Southern Boulevard in Bedford Park, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was wearing only a shirt, underwear and socks, with more clothing folded and placed on the ground next to her, according to law enforcement sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37956973\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/general-view-exterior-entrance-new-117514370.jpg\" alt=\"The senior, identified Wednesday as Lydia Marzan, was discovered lifeless around 6:50 a.m. Tuesday, sprawled out on the sidewalk in front of the national historic landmark on Southern Boulevard in Bedford Park, police said.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-37956973\"  \/>Lydia Marzan, 72, was found dead around 6:50 a.m. Tuesday on the sidewalk in front of the New York Botanical Garden, police said.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Marzan \u2013 who lived about two miles from the greenspace in Fordham Heights \u2013 was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found bruises above her eye and a cut on her hand \u2013 but it was not immediately clear whether those marks were the result of foul play or an accidental fall, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city medical examiner\u2019s office will officially determine how Marzan died, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 72-year-old woman was mysteriously found dead on the sidewalk outside the New York Botanical Garden this week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":454394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5416,5248,405,116535,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,17049,39006,5305,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-454393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-deaths","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-botanical-garden","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-police-investigations","19":"tag-senior-citizens","20":"tag-the-bronx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115737700188866481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}