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Police in Manhattan are investigating the fatal beating of a 76-year-old woman found dead Friday night in her Lower East Side apartment, a case that raises renewed safety concerns for seniors living in federally subsidized housing, as no suspect is yet in custody.
New York City police are investigating what they describe as a violent and unexplained beating that left the woman, 76, dead in her Lower East Side apartment, authorities said Saturday.
Officers from the New York Police Department’s 5th Precinct responded Friday night to an apartment at Knickerbocker Village, a federally subsidized housing complex near Chinatown and the Lower East Side built in the 1930s, after the victim’s son discovered her body and called 911, police sources said…