Two workers die after being found unconscious in stairwell of Manhattan building

Two men died after being f ound unconscious in the stairwell of a building in Manhattan’s Little Italy where they were doing work, cops said.

One of the victims, a 34-year-old, died at the scene in the stairwell on Mulberry St. near Hester St. at about 3:45 p.m. Saturday, cops said. Medics rushed the second man to New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan Hospital, but he could not be saved.

Relatives told ABC 7 New York the men were part of a work crew painting one of the apartments in the building and that their boss called the crew down for lunch but the men never responded. The building has a smoke shop on the ground floor…

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