[UPDATE] Man Falls To Death From Upper East Side Window

[Update Below] A 31-year-old died yesterday after falling from a fifth floor window at his East 74th Street apartment. According to the Post, the authorities believe that Keith Mastronardi accidentally fell when he was "leaning out the window while smoking." He apparently slipped around 10:25 p.m.

Mastronardi was found dead in the building's courtyard. The Daily News reports, "An attendant at a neighboring parking lot said he was startled by the sound of Mastronardi hitting the ground and went running for cover. 'I heard a loud bang from the back,' Joe Gomez said. 'It sounded like a bomb - very hard. I never heard something like that before.'" Mastronardi was an exotic derivatives trader for Vyapar Capital Market Partners.

He and his wife had three children, including a baby. Gomez told the News, "I'd see him passing by with the kids all the time and say hi."

UPDATE: Sources say Mastronardi had been drinking before the fall. Police tell the Wall Street Journal he was “drinking heavily” and smoking cigarettes, and that he lost his balance as he was opening a bedroom window to air out the apartment. And a source tells the Post that his wife, Debra Mastronardi, had also been drinking heavily and "had to be taken out of the apartment in a stretcher."

Contact the author of this article or email tips@gothamist.com with further questions, comments or tips.

By Jen Chung in News on April 4, 2011 1:44 PM

Comments [rss]

flippycanoo

It's the upper east side. Need we think any more on this?

investigationsrme

I see people sitting on windowsills smoking, but one story said he slipped. What was he wearing when he fell? Were their any witnesses besides his wife? I am wondering if the wife was involved if only joking around with him.

blindmalice

She SO pushed him.

kittyblingbling

Irresponsible parenting...why drink heavily when you have many kids?

Rocknrope

I guess the wife wasn't breast-feeding.

Bernie_Geotz_Squirrel_Luv

One day you're on top of the world and the next......
Just live your life, man, just live your life. forget all this political, racial, hate and BS.

HughGass

One day you're on top of the world and the next...... you're splattered all over it.

Guest

Was she carried out on a stretcher because of the drinking or because she was catatonic from learning her husband was dead?

VelvetTiff

This is horrible. But where were the kids? Both parents were "drinking heavily."

newUsername

asleep?

T

poor guy. screw the post. scumbags.

Bruce Goldensteinberg

Exotic Derivatives. Sounds like karma.

Guest

Got a bank account? Credit Card? Then STFU.

sleepswitheyesopen

Touchy much?

unretrofiedforu

Hey, he probably made money on the interest we pay on our CC's and houses and got to keep it during the fallout (thanks to our generous gov't). But I'll give to him; trading on that level requires real brainpower.

cmdrogogov

and now for something completely different.. (that hopefully makes sense)

freddynyc

Derivatives trader? No way....

Lumber1

The NY Post is such a rag. Their headline refers to this accident as a "death plunge", which implies someone leaping off a skyscraper, not accidentally falling from a 5th floor window. Also, is everyone who works on Wall Street a "high-powered...executive"? It seems like the NY Post would call a Wall Street janitor "high-powered" if they cleaned above the 20th floor.

Very sad story, nonetheless.