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A frantic search is underway for a Manhattan florist and decorator who’s been missing since Thursday, leaving her heartbroken husband worried sick and desperate for her safe return.
“I can’t cry anymore,” Martin Cerciello, 71, told the Daily News. “I don’t even enjoy being here. It’s just an empty shell,” he said of the Gramercy home the couple has shared for decades.
“I’m watching the clock tick and she’s just not coming back.”
Christina Cerciello, 57, left the couple’s E.17th St. apartment to go shopping for turkey and milk at 1:20 p.m. and hasn’t been seen since. “There was no indication on that day that it was different than any other,” her husband said.
He said his wife had gone through difficulties in the past six months — including the death of her father, a retired city firefighter — and was suffering from anxiety and depression, but recently had turned a corner.
“There were so many things that were going on. She just took a real hammering,” Cerciello said.
The couple are co-owners of Elegant Affairs NYC, one of the city’s “finest event and floral designers,” according to their website. They’d had also recently left a studio on Renwick Street that Cerciello called his wife’s “playground” for 25 years.
Christina Cerciello’s father died in May while aboard an ocean liner, her husband said. “Some days she was more herself but other days were rougher.”
“We’re partners, we’ve been partners for 38 years,” he said. “It looked a little better. Not a lot better, but something for us to grab onto.”
One neighbor told The News the sudden disappearance is “very out of character,” adding she’d seen her as recently as Wednesday. “I’m sorry to hear that.”
A review of surveillance video showed Christina Cerciello taking a different route to go to the market than she usually used, according to her husband. “She walked further east, we don’t know what that means,” he said.
“I walk around the neighborhood aimlessly just hoping I see her walking down,” the distraught husband said. “I’m just hoping this nightmare will be over.”
The missing woman is 5-feet-6 inches tall and has blue eyes, cops said.
Police ask with information to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.