{"id":65818,"date":"2026-02-09T13:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/at-least-18-people-now-dead-as-historic-new-york-cold-stretch-nears-end\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:56:35","slug":"at-least-18-people-now-dead-as-historic-new-york-cold-stretch-nears-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/at-least-18-people-now-dead-as-historic-new-york-cold-stretch-nears-end\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 18 people now dead as historic New York cold stretch nears end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City faced one of longest periods of subzero cold since 1961, forcing \u2018code blue\u2019 and extreme weather warnings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/07\/homelessness-new-york-cold-winter\">Deadly cold tests New York\u2019s ability to protect its homeless communities<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The death toll related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\">New York City<\/a>\u2019s dangerous and enduring cold has risen to 18, officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The climbing number of fatalities came as a stark reminder of the danger of the subzero temperatures gripping the area, which has been subjected to one of the longest stretches of subzero cold <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/status\/2015875109035065472\">since 1961<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/09\/new-york-city-cold-weather-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City faced one of longest periods of subzero cold since 1961, forcing \u2018code blue\u2019 and extreme weather warnings Deadly cold tests New York\u2019s ability to protect its homeless communities The death toll related to New York City\u2019s dangerous and enduring cold has risen to 18, officials said on Sunday. The climbing number of fatalities came &#8230; <a title=\"At least 18 people now dead as historic New York cold stretch nears end\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/at-least-18-people-now-dead-as-historic-new-york-cold-stretch-nears-end\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about At least 18 people now dead as historic New York cold stretch nears end\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}