A well-respected physician from Long Island died early Sunday in mysterious circumstances after a night out with friends in Manhattan, police said, leaving behind three children, a husband, and many questions.
New York Police Department officers found 38-year-old dermatologist Kiersten Rickenbach Ceverny around 8:30 a.m. in the vestibule of an apartment building on West 16th Street, after responding to an anonymous 911 call about an unconscious person in the fashionable Chelsea neighborhood. An ambulance rushed Cerveney to Lennox Hill hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead.
As of early Monday, the Medical Examiner had not yet determined the cause of the woman’s death. But details about the possible circumstances had begun to emerge — raising more questions than they answered.
Police sources told the New York Post and the New York Daily News that Cerveny had come into the city from her family home in Manhasset for a night out with friends.
Cerveny reportedly spent most of Saturday night bar-hopping around the Lower East Side with her friends before ending up at the Chelsea apartment building with two men, at least one of whom lived there. Surveillance footage from the building shows two men carrying her down the stairs, the Post reported.
Early on Sunday, a man called 911 to report that Cerveny was unconscious, but fled the scene when emergency medics began asking questions, the Post reported. Later, he called the emergency number again to try to find out if Cerveny was still alive.
The emergency medics who tended to Cerveny found bruises around her neck, the Daily News reported. It was unclear whether the bruises were consistent with strangulation or the product of a recent medical procedure, sources told the Post.
The NYPD’s media relations unit declined to answer any questions from BuzzFeed News about Cerveny’s death other than to say nobody had been arrested, and the investigation remained ongoing.
Cerveny graduated with honors from Duke University and went on to get her medical degree at Tulane, according to her wedding announcement in the New York Times. She served as the chief of dermatology at Brooklyn Hospital Center and had a professorship at Weil Cornell. The Yelp page for her private practice had glowing reviews.
Cerveny’s widower, Andrew Cerveny, is also a dermatologist. The pair were married in 2009 and had three children. The U.S. Census lists the average value of the homes in their neighborhood in Manhasset, Long Island as well over a million dollars.
Calls at the family's number went unanswered.
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