An unidentified man plummeted to his death from a Times Square supportive housing building on Saturday morning, officials said.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene following the 6:50 a.m. incident on 43rd Street near 8th Avenue, the FDNY said.
“Someone jumped? Jesus Christ!,” said a stunned woman who answered the phone at the office location four hours after the incident.
The woman said only that the property was “a residence.”
The 652-unit former hotel, The Times Square, which opened in 1991, “combines permanent affordable housing and onsite supportive services for low-income and formerly homeless adults, persons with serious mental illness and persons living with HIV/AIDS,” according to the nonprofit Breaking Ground website.
No other information was immediately available.
The scene where a person jumped from a top floor at the Times Square Hotel on 43rd Street near 8th Avenue in Manhattan. G.N.Miller/NYPostTwo bellboys at the Westin Hotel across the street said the NYPD closed off the block while they investigated. They said the victim was a man, but did not see him jump or fall.
An NYPD spokesperson did not have any information.
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