These New Yorkers had homes. They died outside in the freezing cold.

Kenneth Luna’s family said he died doing something he enjoyed: walking through the park near his Bronx home to clear his mind.

On Jan. 28, the 29-year-old left the apartment he shared with his mother on Brook Avenue in Mott Haven and walked three blocks to St. Mary’s Park, according to his younger sister Maria Luna. Temperatures in New York City felt like 10 degrees that night, and Maria Luna said she suspected that her brother had been drinking.

Had it not been dangerously cold outside, she said, Kenneth Luna might have made it home alive…

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