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A man jumped to his death from the 66th floor of the Empire State Building yesterday afternoon. Police say that 21 year old Lower East Side resident David Ambramowitz purchased a ticket to go to the observation deck at the 86th floor, which he went to...but then went back down to the lobby and took an elevator to the 66th floor and apparently jumped out the window from a vacant office. Wait, isnt' the Empire State Building supposed to be pretty secure? With lobby attendants and guards watching people? Hmm. A worker on the 60th floor told the Daily News, "I saw this black shape out of the corner of my eye and thought nothing of it, like it was a bird." Abramowitz's body was found on a 6th floor ledge; his death may have been the 34th suicide at the building.
Suicide at the Empire State Building
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thats so crazy. i work on 34th street, right across from the empire state building and i had no idea. there wasn't an unusual ammount of poilce cars or fire trucks.
I had always heard that if you jumped from the ESB you would be dead before you hit the ground. 'Course, no one ever reported their tests of this hypothesis.
Sounds like a Mythbusters episode to me! (They've already explored the dropping-penny-can-kill-you myth. BTW, it can't.)
glad i didn't go yesterday.
studies show that articles about suicides actually cause more people to commit suicide because people read it and see it as an endorsement. we learned about this in j-school...
What an attention whore.
34th on 34th! Snf, that's poetic!
Totally, leaping off a building or a bridge blows. That must be the scariest thing ever.
Here is an article about suicide contagion:
http://aepo-xdv-www.epo.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/m0031539/M0031539.asp
My friend's brother used to work there, and she visited his office. Apparently, the windows are the ordinary pull up kind with low sills and no window guards or rails of any kind. Since the building is a designated historic landmark, they're not allowed to modify it in any way.
Terminal velocity for a human body is around 120mph (200mph if you tuck in your limbs)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity
I work there, and I didn't hear anything about that until this morning. And I was at work until about 5:30 - 6:00 PM, it says he jumped around 3. Pretty crazy and scary.
My dentist is in the ESB. She keeps her windows open. It's kinda cool, kinda freaky, but it does give you something else to think about while someone's fingers and sharp instruments are in your mouth. The breezes that high up do feel very cool (unlike the gusts that blow across the observation deck).
And why do I get the idea that terminal velocity has nothing to do with arrivals? Well, I guess, maybe it does...
I was working as a doorman across the street from where he wound up and somehow missed it. There were cops there all morning doing a drill of some kind (at least that's what they said) but then they came back. The building I was working at has all of these high-end gift shop showrooms on the side that faces the street, looking right down on the ledge he landed on, and these out-of-town buyers were all taking pictures with their camera phones and stuff. The whole thing made me kind of queasy. Also being a few yards from him all afternoon...and the life just kept going on the street. Late in the afternoon, around 5 p.m., this couple, tourists came along, and obliviously snapped their picture in front of the building. Not knowing...weird. Just weird.
We had a jumper in my building, late afternoon, pryed the window open and jumped. Landed on a wrought iron fence.
All I know was, I heard a loud bang/crash. Not like an auto accident crash but a loud, heavy thud.
Were they German or mid western tourists?