Murder at luxury NY hotel

The body of a naked woman with her throat slashed and a knife sticking out of it was found yesterday at a luxury hotel next to Central Park, police said.

Investigators looking into the death at the Jumeirah Essex House hotel, on the park's southern edge, said the woman appeared to be in her 30s.

The body was found by a maid in a 10th floor condo at the 44-storey Manhattan hotel.