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Published: November 17, 2012

Mapping Hurricane Sandy’s Deadly Toll

Mapping Hurricane Sandy’s Deadly Toll

At last count, officials were attributing more than 100 deaths to Hurricane Sandy. Some patterns emerged in mapping the deaths in the region. Elderly residents were hit especially hard, with close to half of the people who died age 65 or older. In New York City, the majority of deaths occurred in Queens and on Staten Island, and most people perished at the height of the storm, drowned by the surge.
In more inland areas, downed trees were more often the cause of death. The days after the storm were also deadly, as people tried to clear away storm damage or used poorly ventilated generators to ward off the dark and the cold.
      Some victims’ names have not been released, as the authorities seek to reach their families.

New York City

Lauren Abraham, 23

Queens

Ms. Abraham was killed Oct. 29 when she stepped on a downed electric line in front of her home on 134th Street in Richmond Hill. The police said she had gone outside to take pictures of the storm.

Patricia Bevan, 59

Staten Island

Ms. Bevan was found dead on Oct. 31 on the first floor of her flooded bungalow on Hunter Avenue in Midland Beach. The police said she drowned.

Walter Colborne, 89, and Marie Colborne, 66

Staten Island

Mr. Colborne and his wife were found lying dead on the ground beside their car at 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 1 in a wooded lot on Tennyson Drive and Nelson Avenue, near Great Kills Beach. The police said they had drowned.

Eugene Contrubis, 67

Staten Island

Mr. Contrubis, a retired clerk for the Police Department, was found dead Oct. 30 in his home on Kiswick Street in Midland Beach. The police said the cause of death was drowning.

Angela Dresch, 13, and George Dresch, 55

Staten Island

Angela was found dead Oct. 29 on the lawn outside her home in Tottenville. Her father, George Dresch, was found dead on Oct. 30 in a wooded area several blocks away. The police said both had drowned.

Rose Faggiano, 85

Queens

Ms. Faggiano was discovered dead Oct. 30 during a door-to-door search of her Howard Beach neighborhood by the Fire Department. The police said the cause of death was drowning.

John K. Filipowicz, 51, and John C. Filipowicz, 20

Staten Island

Mr. Filipowicz and his son were found on Oct. 30 by the police in their home on Fox Beach Avenue in Oakwood Beach during a check. They were crushed by debris in the basement.

Anna Gesso, 62

Staten Island

Ms. Gesso was found dead Oct. 31, floating in the basement of her house on Naughton Avenue in Dongan Hills. The police said she had probably drowned.

Richard Gold, 67

Queens

Mr. Gold was found dead Oct. 30 in the basement of his home on Beach 133rd Street in Rockaway Park by a neighbor. The police said the cause was drowning.

Lorraine Gore, 90

Brooklyn

Ms. Gore was found dead in the first-floor living room of her Coney Island apartment by a neighbor on Oct. 30. The cause of death was drowning.

David Gotthelf, 72

Queens

Mr. Gotthelf was found dead in his home in Rockaway Park by a friend on Oct. 30. The police said the apparent cause of death was drowning.

SenPo Hua, 87

Brooklyn

Mr. Hua was found dead by a neighbor in Coney Island on Oct. 30. He was under water in his living room.

Artur Kasprzak, 28

Staten Island

Mr. Kasprzak was found dead at 7 a.m. Oct. 30 in the basement of his home on Doty Avenue in South Beach. When the home was flooding, Mr. Kasprzak, an off-duty police officer, led his family to the attic for safety but then returned to the basement. The police said he was probably electrocuted.

Richard Krins, 67

Brooklyn

Mr. Krins was found dead on the floor in his home in Sheepshead Bay on Oct. 31. The cause was drowning.

Tony Laino, 30

Queens

Mr. Laino was killed Oct. 29, when a tree fell on his home on 166th Street in Flushing. Mr. Laino was on the second floor when the tree fell, crushing him.

David Maxwell, 64

Staten Island

Mr. Maxwell was found dead Nov. 9 in his bungalow on Mapleton Avenue in Midland Beach after officers were asked to check the residence. He had drowned.

William McKeon, 78

Queens

Mr. McKeon died on the night of Nov. 6 at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center as a result of injuries sustained during the storm. Mr. McKeon had been found bleeding from the head at the bottom of a dark stairwell that was still wet and covered with sand in a building on Shore Front Parkway in Rockaway Park.

Albert McSwain, 77

Queens

Mr. McSwain died Nov. 10 at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center after sustaining storm-related trauma to his head and body. He was found by family members on Oct. 31 at the bottom of the steps of his apartment building on Rockaway Beach Boulevard. Power had gone out in the building.

Leonard Montalto, 53

Staten Island

Mr. Montalto was found dead in the basement of his home on Fox Beach Avenue. He had drowned.

Brendan Moore, 2, and Connor Moore, 4

Staten Island

The brothers were found dead Nov. 1 in a marshlike area at McLaughlin Street and Olympia Boulevard in South Beach, about 100 feet from each other. They were swept away from their mother by a surge of water. The police said the cause of death was drowning.

Anthony Narh, 57

Manhattan

Mr. Narh was found dead in a sport utility vehicle on Oct. 30 in a parking garage at 92 Laight Street in Manhattan. Mr. Narh drowned.

Ella Norris, 89

Staten Island

Ms. Norris was found dead Oct. 30 in her home on Buel Avenue in Dongan Hills. The police said the cause was probably drowning because of storm-related flooding.

George P. O'Regan, 79

Staten Island

Mr. O’Regan died after a fall on Oct. 31 in the New Lane Senior Houses in Shore Acres. The building was without electricity, and Mr. O’Regan had apparently lost his footing in the dark.

John Paterno, 65

Staten Island

Mr. Paterno was found dead Oct. 31 in his one-story bungalow in Midland Beach. Mr. Paterno had cerebral palsy and was paralyzed from the waist down. The police said the cause of death was drowning.

Anastasia Rispoli, 73

Staten Island

Ms. Rispoli was found dead in her home on Grimsby Street. The police said the cause was drowning.

James Rossi, 85

Staten Island

Mr. Rossi was found dead Oct. 31 in his backyard on Quincy Avenue in Dongan Hills. The police said he appeared to have drowned.

Andrew Sammarco, 61

Staten Island

Mr. Sammarco was found dead Oct. 30 in his home on Mills Avenue in South Beach. The police said he had drowned.

Cy Schoenfeld, 72

Brooklyn

Mr. Schoenfeld was discovered face down in his living room in Sheepshead Bay on Oct. 30. The cause of death was drowning.

Nancy Sorenson, 50

Queens

Ms. Sorenson died Oct. 30 from an injury she received while shutting off the gas to her house on Beach 124th Street in Rockaway Park. Ms. Sorenson cut her arm and bled to death.

Beatrice Spagnuolo, 79

Staten Island

Ms. Spagnuolo was found dead Oct. 30 in her home on Grimsby Street. The police said she had drowned.

George Stathis, 90

Queens

Mr. Stathis was found dead Nov. 3 in his basement at Beach 121st Street in Rockaway Park. He had drowned.

Jessie Streich-Kest, 24, and Jacob Vogelman, 24

Brooklyn

Ms. Streich-Kest and Mr. Vogelman, her friend, were killed by a falling tree on Oct. 29 at Ditmas Avenue and 18th Street in Ditmas Park while walking Ms. Streich-Kest’s dog.

Frank M. Suber, 55

Manhattan

Mr. Suber was found dead on Oct. 30 in a basement on Broad Street in the financial district. It appeared that he had been walking on a sidewalk when a surge of water carried him into the building. The cause of death was probably drowning, the police said.

Henry Sullivan, 57

Queens

Mr. Sullivan was found dead Oct. 30 in his basement on Beach 136th Street in Rockaway Park. His wife, Brenda Sullivan, said he had gone there to turn off the gas. The police said the cause of death was probably drowning.

Eden Toussaint, 58

Queens

Mr. Toussaint was found dead by his landlord on Oct. 31 in a basement apartment on Beach 69th Street in Rockaway Park. The police said he had drowned.

Unidentified Man, 51

Brooklyn

An unidentified man was found dead on Nov. 1, having washed up on Shore Parkway at Bay 44th Street in the Gravesend neighborhood. The cause of death was drowning.

Unidentified Man, approximately 62, and Unidentified Woman, 74

Staten Island

An unidentified man and an unidentified woman were found dead Nov. 2 by police officers in a home on Olympia Boulevard in Midland Beach. The police said they had drowned.

Northern New York Suburbs

Jack Baumler, 11, and Michael Robson, 13

North Salem

Jack was killed Oct. 29 when a tree fell through his home in North Salem in Westchester County. He was watching television alongside Michael, who also died.

Jeffrey Chanin, 51

Pearl River

Mr. Chanin was killed Oct. 29 when a tree fell through his home in Pearl River in Rockland County.

Tiago Ferreira-Neto, 54

Greenburgh

Mr. Ferreira-Neto, of Yonkers, was killed Oct. 29 when his car struck a tree that had fallen across the Sprain Brook Parkway in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County.

Doreen Richardson, 69

Kerhonkson

Ms. Richardson was killed on Oct. 29 while driving on her property in Kerhonkson in Ulster County, when a 10-by-10-foot section of roof from a mobile home, detached by strong winds, crashed into the windshield of her car.

James Stapleford, 75, and Eva Stapleford, 73

Olive

Mr. Stapleford and his wife were found dead in the basement of their home at 52 Black Road on Nov. 5 in the town of Olive in Ulster County. Police said the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning from the generator the couple had used to power their home during the storm.

Long Island

Lewis Bodi, 87

Glen Cove

Mr. Bodi died Nov. 4 after being burned by a kerosene lantern at his Glen Cove home.

Michelle Bracco, 44

Oceanside

Ms. Bracco, of Oceanside, died of carbon monoxide poisoning on Nov. 5 after running a gas generator out of a garage.

Santiago Diazde, 59

North Valley Stream

Ms. Diazde, of Hempstead, was struck by a car and killed Nov. 8 while crossing a street in North Valley Stream where traffic lights were out.

Anne Marie Dolan, 57

Commack

Ms. Dolan was found Nov. 5 in a tent that had collapsed under the weight of a tree. The authorities said she was homeless and living in a wooded area near Veterans Memorial Highway in Commack. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Michael Fleming, 80

Bay Shore

Mr. Fleming was found unconscious and with a head injury at the bottom of the stairs in his Bay Shore home Oct. 29. He died the next day at Southside Hospital. The cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma.

David Freberg

Nissequogue

Mr. Freberg was struck in the head by a broken tree limb in Nissequogue. The police did not release more details.

Juan Granados, 20

Garden City

Mr. Granados, of Mineola, died after crashing his motorcycle into a van Oct. 30 at a Garden City intersection whose signal was still dark after the hurricane.

Nicholas Lourikas, 66

Hauppauge

Mr. Lourikas, of Centereach, was struck on the head Nov. 6 by a storm-damaged tree that he and another man were cutting behind the Hauppauge Palace Diner.

John Miller, 39

Lloyd Harbor

Mr. Miller died in the driveway of his home on Oak Hill Road in Lloyd Harbor on Oct. 29. The police said he was struck by a falling tree while helping usher his wife and children, 5 and 3, into their car to evacuate.

Vishwaja Muppa, 21

Port Jefferson Station

Ms. Muppa, of Edison, N.J., was in the back seat of a sport utility vehicle Oct. 30 in Port Jefferson Station when it crashed into a marked police car. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Abigalo Piedraheta, 78

New Cassel

Ms. Piedraheta died Nov. 2 after using a coal-burning grill inside her New Cassel home, according to the authorities, who said the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning.

Safar Shafinoori, 84

Roslyn

Mr. Shafinoori, of Roslyn, died Oct. 29 when he went to move his car and was hit by a falling tree, the Nassau County police reported.

Unidentified

Nassau County

An unidentified person died Nov. 4, apparently of carbon monoxide poisoning; the home’s carbon monoxide detector had been set off. The police did not release more details.

Edith (Dee) Wright, 52

Montauk

Ms. Wright left her Montauk home on Oct. 29 to walk her dog and was reported missing soon after. Her body washed up the next morning at Georgica Beach, roughly 10 miles away, and the police concluded that she had been swept out to sea by the storm.

New Jersey

Mudiwa Benson, 18, and Kenya Barbara, 19

Newark

Ms. Benson and Ms. Barbara, both of Newark, were found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning at the Riverside Court apartment building Oct. 31.

Erwin Bockhorn, 72

Little Egg Harbor

Mr. Bockhorn drowned in his home in Little Egg Harbor. He was found dead Oct. 30.

Maureen Caporino, 65

Jersey City

Ms. Caporino was found dead in her Jersey City apartment. Her oxygen machine no longer worked after the power went out. She had turned to bottled oxygen, which the police said either ran out or proved insufficient.

Richard Everett, 54, and Elizabeth Everett, 48

Randolph

The Everetts, of Randolph, died after a falling tree crushed their car.

Fletcher Fish, 77

Hawthorne

Mr. Fish was killed when a tree crashed through the roof of his Hawthorne home. He was in a second-floor bedroom. The police said his wife, who was at home at the time, was not injured.

Thomas Frey, 44

Asbury

Mr. Frey, of Asbury, died Oct. 31 as a result of injuries suffered the previous day in a chain saw accident while he was clearing storm debris.

Joseph Godleski, 69

South Hackensack

Mr. Godleski, of South Hackensack, drowned in Hackensack on Oct. 30. His car stalled in the flooding, and he apparently got out of it to flee and slipped in the water.

Amadeo Guiterrez, 41

North Brunswick

Mr. Guiterrez, a landscaper from North Brunswick, died Nov. 6 while trimming a tree in the backyard of a residence on Tutor Place in East Brunswick that had partially fallen during the storm, the authorities said. The East Brunswick Police Department said a section of the tree broke loose and struck him.

William Hardenburg, 67

Bethlehem Township

Mr. Hardenburg, the emergency management coordinator for Bethlehem Township, was hit by a pickup truck Nov. 5 while working with a private contractor to clean up storm debris at a residence in Raritan Township.

Benjamin Harris, 83

Hawthorne

Mr. Harris fell down a flight of stairs at his Hawthorne home after the electricity went out.

Lester Kaplan, 73

Brigantine

Mr. Kaplan, of Brigantine, was found unconscious by relatives on the dining room floor of his flooded home Nov 2. He went into cardiac arrest and died in an ambulance traveling to the hospital. The police said the cause of death was hypothermia.

Celestine Kreitzer , 94

Forked River

Ms. Kreitzer died of hypothermia in her Forked River home. She was found dead on Oct. 30.

Bruce Latteri, 51

Jefferson Township

Mr. Latteri was found dead in a chair in his Jefferson Township home Oct. 30. The authorities said he had been crushed by a falling tree.

Vernie Mathison, 61

West Orange

Mr. Mathison died in his West Orange home. His oxygen machine stopped working after the electricity went out. The authorities said the cause of death was respiratory failure.

Bobbie McDuffie, 46

Newark

Mr. McDuffie, of Newark, was found in his car by the police on Oct. 30. They said the cause of death was probably drowning.

Lawrence Priddy, 57, and Margaret Priddy, 78

Middlesex

Mr. Priddy died in a fire Nov. 3 in his Middlesex home. His mother, Margaret Priddy, died of injuries sustained in the same fire, which the authorities said might have been started by a candle.

Alice Redzilow, 86

Bayonne

Ms. Redzilow fell in her Bayonne home Nov. 3 while the power was out. The authorities said the cause of death was blunt impact injury.

Rafael Reyes, 55

New Brunswick

Mr. Reyes, of New Brunswick, died of carbon monoxide poisoning, probably from a gas-fueled basement generator. The police found him in his kitchen on Nov. 1.

Bernice Sapp, 65

Atlantic City

Ms. Sapp was being evacuated from her apartment in Atlantic City to a shelter on the mainland Oct. 28 when she went into cardiac arrest on the evacuation bus and died.

Walter Schoepfer, 93

Ventnor

Mr. Schoepfer fell on the steps outside his home in Ventnor and struck his head Oct. 30. He was taken to the hospital and died Nov. 6.

William Sword Jr., 61

Princeton Township

Mr. Sword, an investment banker, was killed when a tree fell on him while he was cleaning debris outside his house in Princeton Township on Oct. 29.

George Tatay, 61

Brick

Mr. Tatay, of Brick, was found dead in his flooded house Oct. 30. The authorities said the cause was asphyxia due to drowning.

Leonard Thompson, 71

Stafford

Mr. Thompson was found dead Oct. 31 in his Stafford home. The authorities said the cause of death was hypothermia resulting from exposure to cold.

Unidentified Man, 70, and Unidentified Woman, 73

Willingboro

An unidentified man and an unidentified woman died in a fire in their Willingboro home.

Unidentified Woman, 59

Trenton

An unidentified woman died in Trenton of carbon monoxide poisoning. The electricity had gone out, and she was using a gas generator to power her home.

Unidentified Man, 55

Edison

An unidentified man died in his Edison home of carbon monoxide poisoning. The authorities said he was operating a generator in an enclosed space.

Unidentified Man, 79

Lambertville

An unidentified man died in his Lambertville home. The authorities said he fell and struck his head. There was no electricity in the home.

Unidentified Man, 58

Jamesburg

An unidentified Jamesburg man fell in the parking lot of the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton when he lost his balance as a result of a strong gust of wind.

Unidentified Man, 61

Long Branch

An unidentified man died of hypothermia in his Long Branch home. He was found wrapped in blankets, and there was no electricity in the home.

Unidentified Man, 93

Summit

An unidentified man died in a fall at his Summit home. He was found at the bottom of the stairs, and there was no electricity, the authorities said.

Unidentified Woman, 79

Berkeley Heights

An unidentified woman died apparently after she fell in her Berkeley Heights home. There was no electricity or heat in the home.

Mary Lou Viswat, 85

Middlesex

Ms. Viswat, a former Middlesex borough councilwoman, died Oct. 30 after falling down the cellar stairs in her home there.

Ernest Williams, 65

Newark

Mr. Williams, of Newark, was found in his home, where the electricity had gone out, on Nov 4. The police said the cause of death was an asthma attack.

Connecticut

Jet Krumwiede, 21

Milford

Mr. Krumwiede, of Milford, was tossed from his kayak while paddling in Long Island Sound near Silver Sands State Park in Milford on Oct. 28. His body was recovered by the Stratford police.

Russell F. Neary, 55

Easton

Mr. Neary, of Easton, was clearing tree debris from a roadway Oct. 29 when another tree fell and struck him.

Michael J. Pranulis, 53

Middlebury

Mr. Pranulis, a landscaper, was cutting down a pine tree on Nov. 4 and was killed when it fell to the ground.

Olga Raymond, 90

Mansfield

Ms. Raymond was walking to a neighbor's house on Oct. 29 and was killed when she was struck by a large tree.

Unidentified Man

Trumbull

An unidentified man died in Trumbull. The authorities did not reveal further details.

By JOSH KELLER; reporting was contributed by ALISON LEIGH COWAN, JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN, J. DAVID GOODMAN, and DANIELLA SILVA.

Source: State and local authorities