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2010-03-31 08:10:19
Tue Mar 30, 10:01 pm ET
NEW YORK Authorities say a 21-year-old man has plunged to his death in an
apparent suicide jump off the Empire State Building during the evening rush
hour.
Police say the man was dead when rescue workers arrived at the 102-story
skyscraper shortly before 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Authorities wouldn't immediately
release his name or say from which floor he had jumped.
The Empire State Building is the third-tallest building in the United States.
More than 30 people have committed suicide at the building since it opened in
1931.
Before Tuesday, the most recent was believed to have been in 2006, when a man
jumped from a vacant office on the 66th floor.
The skyscraper reaches 1,454 feet to the top of its lightning rod.