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Kiersten Cerveny believed to have died of cocaine overdose By B i LL S A N ANToNio ANd Joe Nikic A Manhasset woman was found dead Sunday morning in the lobby of an apartment building in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood. A police source told the Daily News on Monday that preliminary autopsy findings show that Kiersten Cerveny, 38, who practiced at Prohealth Care Associates LLP at 2 Hillside Ave. in Williston Park, was not a homicide victim, but instead died of a cocaine overdose. “Based on the preliminary finds, we are not treating this as a homicide case,” the source told the Daily News. “There is nothing at this point to suggest criminal activity. We have no indication, so far, of any force issue in her death.” A law enforcement official told Newsday on Tuesday that the preliminary autopsy revealed that Cerveny had cocaine in her system
but further toxicology tests were needed to determine how much was in her system and whether there were other drugs present as well. Cerveny was discovered “unconscious and unresponsive” around 8:30 a.m. in the vestibule of the building, located at West 16th Street near Seventh Avenue, according to published reports. She was later pronounced dead at Lenox Health Greenwich Hospital. The cause of her death will be determined by the city’s medical examiner. A New York City police department source told Newsday that authorities have obtained video that purportedly shows two men carrying Cerveny down the stairs, and have already interviewed one of the men in the video. According to a DNAInfo report, the mother of three died of an apparent drug overdose and was discovered with bruises Continued on Page 48
PHOTO BY BILL SAN ANTONIO
The Roslyn Pond, as seen from Old Northern Boulevard on Monday afternoon.
Bistro Citron closes, to reopen as Italian eatery By B i LL SAN ANToNio French eatery Bistron Citron has closed its doors along Old Northern Boulevard in the Village of Roslyn in favor of a renovation that will see it re-
open as Salumeria Pomodoro, an Italian restaurant, in the coming weeks. Citron had been open since 2003. It is owned by the Huntington Station-based Reststar Inc., which owns several other
restaurants across Long Island including La P’tite Framboise in Port Washington. Jason Machado, one of Reststar’s partners, told Newsday that “Citron had run its course. It wasn’t able to keep Continued on Page 49
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