Woman, 60, Jumps To Her Death From 46-Story Building
A woman, jumped to her death from the roof of a 46-story building, while holding her tiny lap dog on Friday afternoon, according to cops and law-enforcement sources.
The 60-year-old Manhattan woman, had just finished her last meal on top of the luxury Midtown building complex where she lived — The Victory at 561 10th Ave. near 41st Street in Hell’s Kitchen — when she leaped with her little pooch, a rescue dog, just before 1 p.m.
According to a sources, before Jumping, the woman, left behind a handwritten note, talking about stress — then just walked to the edge and jumped. Bottles of medication were found in her apartment.
Local resident Dimitri Wallace said he was sitting on the roof of the building across the street from The Victory moments before the woman jumped when a paper airplane note floated by and landed next to him.
He said “You are blessed” was written on one of its wings, while “Stay strong. You’ll get through this!” was on the other.
“It landed on my roof up here, like directly above. I was like ‘Oh s–t, is somebody OK?”
“Yo, that’s crazy that somebody like threw this note and then this literally happened like right after,” he said of the suicide. “I just saw it, and I was like ‘Oh, that’s weird.’
“I threw it off the roof,” he said of the paper airplane. “I wanted to just send it to whoever … just passing along a positive message.”
Police said both the woman and her pooch were declared dead at the scene.