New York Post

Soho early bird was dying for a cronut

- Elizabeth Rosner and Sarah Trefethen

Not even a dead body could stop these cronut customers.

A man’s corpse was discovered on a bench outside the original cronuts bakery in Soho early Friday — but at least a dozen customers persisted in lining up.

“I didn’t see anyone leave the line,” said Chinatown resident Molly Young, 29, who happened by the scene outside Dominique Ansel Bakery on Spring Street.

“It didn’t put a dent in anyone’s appetite,” Young noted.

Another witness, Jessica Wright, 26, said that one customer did duck out of the line — briefly — to inform the bakery.

“A guy in line . . . saw a body on the first bench. He brought it to the attention of a Dominique Ansel Bakery employee,” Wright told The Post. “She saw the dead guy and called 911. They came and pronounced him dead.”

A source told The Post that the corpse was that of a neighbor, Andrew Lang, 47, whose death did not appear suspicious. He had been dead for about 10 hours, the source said.

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