A person was fatally struck by a 1 train at the W 28th Street station in Manhattan this morning. According to the FDNY, the male victim was hit by an uptown 1 train just before noon today, and was DOA at the scene. Some initial reports from the station indicate it may have been a suicide, but one woman wrote: "Holy fuck someone fell under the 1 train I was just on and died and we all ha to get off and I saw the body. I think I'm going to be sick." more ›

Oh look at this, according to the NY Times, Van Halen has invited music writers and critics to a short, intimate concert at the 250-capacity Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village this Thursday. Meaning they'll get an up-close and personal look at this! But sadly, it looks like our invitation was lost in the mail. It's cool though, we were Hagar fans anyway—mostly because he feeds us tequila. This concert, however, is a prelude to a tour which will bring David Lee Roth back to the forefront. more ›

Last month, we saw disturbing video of a disoriented man rolling around on the L train tracks after falling off the platform in Brooklyn. There was a lot of debate over the actions—or rather, the inactions—of the videographers. But besides the fact that they chose to upload the video of the man-in-distress online in the first place, the thing that most irked us was when they documented themselves laughing about that situation. In the (albeit not perfectly clear) video below, two witnesses cackle gleefully as a guitarist is jumped on a 1 train by a group of people, before being shoved out at Canal Street. more ›

A 31-year-old Pennsylvania man is currently in stable condition after leaping off a Manhattan-bound Staten Island Ferry yesterday evening. The crew of the Spirit of America rescued the man after he jumped near Liberty Island, and he was transfered to Bellevue Hospital where he was treated for hypothermia and is currently undergoing a psychiatric evaluation. Police confirmed that the man jumped from the ferry, but it's unclear whether it was a suicide attempt. more ›

Yesterday morning, a 27-year-old woman apparently jumped to her death from a Trump Place building on the Upper West Side. The Daily News reports, "Police said Jessica Fashano... jumped from the top of the 40-story Trump Place tower on Riverside Blvd. at 8:15 a.m.," and the Post says she "landed face down in a third-floor courtyard just after 8 a.m." A resident told the News, "It was outside my window [and] it was a really bad sound - a boom... I'll never forget it." more ›

Remember how a 22-year-old man somehow survived a 39-story fall from a West Side building—after falling into a Dodge Charger parked on the street— in August? Well, he's up and walking around—the Daily News spotted him at his parents' Staten Island home, and Thomas Magill said, "I'm doing good." more ›

On Tuesday night, the body of an event planner—with duct tape over the mouth— was found on West 4th Street, under a construction vehicle. A suicide note was found in Bryan Jacobson's apartment at 250 Mercer Street, and the Daily News reports, "In the note, Jacobson wrote that he could no longer deal with his health issues, the sources said. He suffered from Lyme disease. Investigators believe Jacobson first tried to suffocate himself, and when that didn't work, he jumped from a window about 10:45 p.m." A neighbor told the Post that Jacobson's business wasn't doing well. more ›

The man who took a plunge from the upper decks of the Jones Beach amphitheater last week was discharged from the hospital on Friday, just two days after his nearly fatal fall at the Phish show. The man's name has still not been officially released, but he reportedly jumped from the balcony—as opposed to being shoved, or losing his balance. And this means he's going to face charges. more ›

A dramatic deejay threatening to throw himself into the East River actually went through with it after a passing stranger encouraged him to do it. Luckily, he wasn't hurt. “I didn’t go to sleep last night, and I was feeling kind of sad because I got ditched by a girl," said Philippe Treuille, who managed to swim from Houston Street to East 26th Street before he was rescued by NYPD divers. He told them he "just wanted to go swimming." He is doing well, and it's unclear if he actually wanted to commit suicide. more ›

After several recent student suicides, Cornell University has constructed temporary fencing on three university-owned bridges from which students have taken their lives. According to the Times, the Ivy League school is also in discussions with Ithaca politicians about erecting similar fencing on three city-owned spans. School officials consulted with "many experts both local and national" on suicide prevention and bridge barriers before selecting eight-foot tall chain-link fencing as a temporary solution. "The idea is that any longer-term solution would involve architectural elements that would fit in with the bridges," said university spokesman Simeon Moss. "So they certainly wouldn't be chain-link fences." Security guards are expected to be posted on campus bridges at least through the end of next week. more ›

Just after the Brooklyn Bridge Park ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday, a 41-year-old Long Island woman jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge. According to the Daily News, she survived the plunge and the NYPD Harbor cops pulled her from the waters. Susan Cloud is currently in critical condition at Bellevue Hospital. The drop is 120-feet, and has been survived before—in December a 22-year-old woman recovered after taking the leap, and last January a man walked away from his jump off the Manhattan Bridge. more ›

Does last night's big Massachusetts victory for the tea-bagging right have you contemplating jumping off a bridge? Be careful how you time it, because you might end up landing in a delicious vat of chocolate and peanut butter (instead of dead). It happened to the guy in this video, who appears to be jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge just for the hell of it, and certainly not for some kind of stupid advertising stunt. Corporate America really missed a great opportunity here, because this would have been such a clever way to subtly promote all sorts of products, and then get the Internets to spread brand awareness for free! more ›

Well, this is depressing. The 10-month-old puppy, named Brooklyn, who jumped off the roof of his building over the weekend... has died. The pup originally survived the 5-story plunge, but now it's being reported by PeoplePets that the family euthanized him today. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Life is so unpredictable: One minute you're pulling out of a New Jersey gas station, the next minute you're diving off the George Washington Bridge to escape police after a high-speed chase. An unidentified man presumably fell to his death yesterday morning after trying to escape from cops who pulled him over for a "routine stop" while driving his 2005 Pontiac Grand Prix through Fort Lee. Police say the man was pulled over around 9:30 a.m. for failing to yield, and the vehicle "had law enforcement equipment inside." But within minutes he sped away toward the bridge, with the fuzz in hot pursuit. more ›

A motorcyclist caught driving with a suspended license at the Bronx-side entrance to the Throgs Neck Bridge decided to jump rather than face arrest yesterday. Rocky Sanchez, 43, has had his license suspended 17 times, and when MTA Bridges and Tunnels Officer Charles Luce pulled him over by the toll plaza, Sanchez wasn't about to go down without a fight. First he sped away from Luce, then abandoned his motorcycle, ran across six lanes of traffic, climbed over the wall and jumped about 30 feet! more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a man jumped into the frigid Niagara River, was swept down the Horseshoe Falls—all 180 feet—and survived. The Buffalo News reports, "Naked and despondent, with a gash on his head, the man was caught in a slow-moving circle of frigid water below the falls when rescuers made it down a steep embankment shortly after 2 p. m. to a point where Firefighter Todd Brunning could enter the water." more ›

A distraught 34-year-old woman threw herself from the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday, plunging 100 feet from the pedestrian walkway near the Manhattan shoreline into the East River. An NYPD Harbor Unit quickly responded to the scene and pulled the suicidal woman from the water. Somehow she was relatively unscathed--without a scratch or a broken bone--and was treated at a hospital for aspirating some water, which is common in near drowning incidents. more ›

After trying to parachute off of the Empire State Building in 2006, Jeb Corliss found himself in front of a judge; at first the charges were dismissed, but earlier this year he was charged with reckless endangerment. The misdemeanor could turn the daredevil into a caged bird for up to one year. more ›

Some gamblers don't need their legs broken by loan sharks if they're paranoid enough. The FDNY discovered four men lying in an alley at 35-12 Farrington St. in Flushing, Queens while responding to a call about a smoke condition at the building. According to WNBC, the building houses a not-that-secret illegal gambling operation. more ›

Would-be Empire State Building jumper, Jeb Corliss (pictured), isn't in the clear yet. Last year's decision from Supreme Court Justice Michael Ambrecht to dismiss the charges against him was overturned yesterday when The Supreme Court Appellate Division decided to bring the case back to life. more ›

A woman appears to have fallen or jumped from a very high floor of the U.N. Secretariat Building at 405 East 42nd St. early today. Per wcbstv.com, U.N. security personnel escorted detectives and NYPD officers to the rear of the building, where the woman's body was splayed out on the lawn. She was quickly covered with a sheet and the area was cordoned with yellow tape. It's believed that the dead woman was an employee at the United Nations, although her identity has not been revealed. more ›