A 38-year-old dermatologist was found unconscious in the doorway of a Manhattan apartment building Sunday.
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A woman was found dead with neck bruising in the entrance of a Chelsea apartment building this morning.
The New York City medical examiner will determine the cause of death; the investigation is ongoing, police said.
The woman was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Update: The Daily News has now identified the victim as Long Island dermatologist Kiersten Cerveny.
Officers responding to a 911 call discovered Kierstan Cerveny, 38, wedged between the front door and second door of a building on West 16th Street near 7th Avenue in Chelsea about 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, a police source said.
Right now police are questioning a tenant that lives in the building where her body was found but no suspects have been named, Sanchez reported.
No arrests have been made, but police are now searching for the man who flagged down the ambulance.
Police are trying to figure out the man’s identity and have reportedly been showing a photo of the man to potential witnesses in the area.
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Cerveny, formerly Rickenbach, married Dr. K. Andrew Cerveny in December. 2009, according to the couple’s New York Times wedding announcement. She received her medical degree from Tulane University and was the chief of dermatology at the Brooklyn Hospital Center for the past seven years.
