Man Found Dead Outside Harlem School: Police

HARLEM, NY — A man was found dead with a gash in his chest early Monday outside a Harlem charter school, police said.

Just after 4 a.m. Monday, police officers found the unconscious 65-year-old man outside 240 West 113th St. — a building near Frederick Douglass Boulevard that houses Opportunity Charter School and Success Academy Harlem 4.

Paramedics brought the man to Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital, where they found he had a laceration to the chest. He was later pronounced dead, police said.

The man's name has not been released. The medical examiner will determine his cause of death and an investigation is ongoing, police said.