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No Window Guards At Apartment Where Man Fell To Death

2011_03_keithmas.jpg On Sunday, a 31-year-old father of three died after falling out of his fifth floor Upper East Side apartment window. Now it turns out that the apartment didn't have window guards, which are required when there are children under the age of 10 in the home.

Keith Mastronardi, a derivatives traders on Wall Street,was described as "drinking heavily" in the Wall Street Journal. His mother told the Post that Mastronardi had two martinis and then wanted a smoke, "so he cracked open a waist-high window, she added, so that the fumes wouldn't bother his wife and 11-week old daughter, who were also in the bedroom." She said, "[His wife] Debra turned to Madison and looked back, and he was gone. She heard a thud, the bang, and went to look out the windows and saw him there."

Mastronardi, a Long Island native who was a high school and college track star, and his wife were supposed to close on a home in Oyster Bay today. The Department of Housing Preservation and Development is now going to inspect all the apartments at the building, 340 East 74th Street, to check the window guard situation. Here's more info on the city's Window Fall Prevention program; 340 East 74th is described as a co-op, which means the building's management must install guards.

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  • Inconcievable de Impublishable

    Smoking Kills

  • chuzzlewit

    i was once a 31 year old man with a wife and an 11 week old daughter, and to think about someone cashing in their chips at that point makes me want to fuckin cry.

  • gaelic47

    I went to high school with this guy. I hadn't spoken to him in years, but he was a really nice guy. Regardless of who's at fault, it's still absolutely horrible and breaks your heart to hear about shit like this.

  • dollarmenu

    Co-ops send you a notice every year to ask how many window guards you need, and given their daughter was only 11 weeks old, chances are their last form on record with the co-op said they needed none. But even if they had requested a guard and didn't get one, I'm doubtful that fact could be held to blame for his fall. It might've prevented it, but it can't be held responsible.

  • m015094

    Two martini's my ass.

  • JarekAF

    Yah . . . bummer, but, the Estate won't have a case against the building. The guards are there to protect children, not 31 year old men. Hard to believe how easy it is to die.

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