Police shut down Manhattan’s tony Sutton Place neighborhood on Sunday after a dead woman was found in a Jeep full of toxic chemicals in what authorities believe was a bizarre suicide.
The 35-year-old victim was discovered dead in the backseat of a black Jeep parked at E. 56th St. and Sutton Ave. at 11:23 a.m., cops said.
City Medical Examiner workers removed the body from the vehicle and will determine the cause and manner of death. Her name was not immediately released.
“An assortment of chemicals” was found in the Jeep, according to a police source. It wasn’t immediately clear what kind of chemicals they were.
“It will likely be suicide with these chemicals as the cause,” a source said.
The grim death is rare on Sutton Place, a quiet upscale neighborhood on the East River. Some of New York’s richest and most famous residents, like Bobby Short, the Vanderbilt family, Aristotle Onassis and Marilyn Monroe have lived there.