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Fatal stabbing at the Gregory
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del.icio.usNormally quiet Bay Ridge is reeling over a mysterious fatal stabbing at a Fourth Avenue hotel on Monday morning.
David Diaz, 26, was found dead in his room at the Best Western Gregory Hotel just before noon by a hotel employee. Within minutes NYPD units responded to the frenzied scene, roping off much of the sidewalk on Fourth Avenue between 83rd and 84th streets throughout the day.
Police say Diaz had been stabbed in the back and had been beaten about the head.
Diaz, who lived a few blocks away on Fifth Avenue and 76th Street, had checked into the hotel on Sunday with an unidentified woman.
Police said the woman is wanted for questioning, but would not confirm whether she is currently a suspect. Family members and neighbors are also being questioned.
The hotel staff wasn’t talking this week, either. “No comment,” said a manager.
Shocked neighbors say Diaz had lived with his parents. The family had previously lived above Leske Bakery at 7612 Fifth Ave. and moved two doors down to its current apartment almost two years ago.
An employee at Bay Ridge Pizzeria and Restaurant, at 7704 Fifth Ave., said Daiz would often come in for a pie. He called the dead man a very unassuming, “nice guy.”
The hotel, located at 84th St. and Fourth Avenue, was built in 1926. A fire in 1986 destroyed the interior, but it was restored and reopened as a Comfort Inn.
More recently, it became part of the Best Western chain, yet retained its traditional moniker, “Gregory Hotel.”
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