Man Found Dead In UES Hospital Bathroom, Police Say

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The NYPD is investigating the death of a man who's body was found in a bathroom of New York Presbyterian Hospital on the Upper East Side, police said.

Police arrived at the hospital, located on East 68th Street and York Avenue, around 3 p.m. Sunday to find a man unconscious and unresponsive inside an eighth-floor bathroom, police said. The man was not suffering physical trauma and was pronounced dead on the scene by EMS, police said.

The man was later identified as 40-year-old Upper East Side resident Miguel Crespo, police said. Crespo was a medical researched at Weill Cornell Medical College, according to the school's online directory.

"Weill Cornell Medicine is saddened by the death of our colleague Miguel Crespo, PhD. We extend our deepest sympathies to his family and friends," Weill Cornell spokeswoman Sarah Smith told the Daily News in a statement.

The city medical examiner will investigate the man's official cause of death, police said.

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