The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The medical examiner says hot weather has killed a 90-year-old Brooklyn woman, the eighth recent heat-related death in New York City.
Medical examiner’s office spokeswoman Ellen Borakove says the woman died of heat stroke Thursday after temperatures reached 85 degrees.
The latest death comes on the heels of a stifling four-day heat wave that sent temperatures soaring into the high 90s.
The National Weather Service says the heat wave ended June 10.
Borakove says the recent hot weather has killed five people in Brooklyn and three in Queens.