Man Found Dead Under Mattress at Midtown Hotel: NYPD

Police are investigating the death of a man who they say was found unconscious with a head injury under a mattress at a hotel blocks from the Empire State Building.

Officers were called to the Hilton Garden Inn near Herald Square on West 35th Street at about 4 a.m. Monday. Police say the unresponsive man had trauma to the back of his head. 

He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Investigators and medical examiners are working to determine how he died. Police think he was in his 30s.

A manager for the hotel hasn't immediately returned a call.

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