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- Owners of the Murray Hill apartment building where two tenants died of carbon monoxide poisoning may be held responsible. The apartment has had a history of dangerous carbon monoxide levels. The Mayor and City Council Speaker are moving to make carbon monoxide detectors standard in apartment buildings.
- A man jumped to his death from the Empire State Building, after applying for a job at an 80th floor business. A witness said the man in his 20s went to a 72nd floor ledge, "The window was closed, but he opened it and took the mesh off." This is the 35th suicide from the Empire State Building.
- And the Mayor is reviewing all city cars that have sirens and lights, after yesterday's news of Deputy Mayor Carol Robles-Roman's misuse of them. Mayor B is reportedly angry at Robles-Roman and has said, "There are people on the list I've seen where it's hard to understand why they have to rush to get someplace in order to pass a piece of legislation or file a piece of paper or whatever," such as the IT/ Technology department, though, in Gothamist's book, a downed network could be an emergency.

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A lot of people don't realize that the engineering of the Empire State building prevents you from falling all the way down. The guy only fell eight stories. He went up 80 floors just for an 8-story drop.

Perhaps he should have chosen a shorter building with a straight, plain construction.

The Flatiron building might have been a good one. The Pan Am/Met Life building is another good one. Or the Citigroup building--he could have climbed to the diagonal roof and slid it down like one giant, final slide to the great beyond.

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