Man That Jumped From Empire State Building Yesterday Was Apparent Suicide

A New York man that jumped to his death from the Empire State Building yesterday was an apparent suicide.

New York City Police report that 21-year-old Dovid Abramowitz who lived on Grand Street on the Lower East Side, entered a vacant office, opened the window and jumped, after buying a ticket to the 86th floor observation deck at around 3 p.m. Officials discovered his body on a landing on the sixth- floor parapet of the building facing 34th Street. "An employee in my office yelled out, 'Oh my God! A big black bird just went past the window,' " said David Burgos, 27, who works on the 60th floor. "He ran to the window and saw it was a body."

It is 1,454 feet to the top of the Empire State Building's lightning rod.