     ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEASED WAS AN ELDERLY MALE WHO WAS RETIRED FROM THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY AND LIVED ALONE AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS. 
     ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1996, HE WAS FOUND EXPIRED IN HIS APARTMENT BY HIS CARE TAKER. FIRE RESCUE UNITS WERE SUMMONED, RESPONDED AND PRONOUNCED HIM DEAD UPON THEIR ARRIVAL. 
     PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF TREATMENT AT MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER AND BY DR. ROBERT FURLONG (538-1294), PAST HISTORY OF TREATMENT FOR ACUTE MYOCARIAL INFARCTION, CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, RENAL INSUFICIENCY, HYPERTENSION AND AORTIC STENOSIS. MEDICATION PRESCRIBED; ACCUPRIL, LANOXIN AND NITRO PATCHES. NO MEDICATION WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS DEPARTMENT.   