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Empire State Building Suicide Jump

April 14, 2007 at 2:34 am by  

Empire State Building Suicide JumpNew York, NY – Moshe Kanovsky, 31, a lawyer, leaped to his death from a 69th-floor office at New York’s Empire State Building, severing a leg that crashed to the sidewalk in front of horrified onlookers. Mr. Kanovsky worked for the law firm Ashok Karmaker. It is being reported that Kanovsky met with a client in one room and jumped from another.

“He was interviewing a client,” said a man who works in the suite. “He just got up, opened the window and jumped.”

Several witnesses called 911 to report that a leg, severed below the knee, was on the ground by the building, bare except for a gray and black sock. The rest of Kanovsky’s body was found intact on a 30th-floor landing.

It wasn’t immediately clear what prompted Kanovsky’s suicide.

At least 30 people have jumped from the Empire State Building since it opened in 1931. Before Kanovsky, Dovid Abramowitz, 21, was the last to die. He leaped from the 66th floor on February 2, 2006, after buying a ticket to the 86th-floor observation deck.

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    • swivel

      If you think of this building as just another big bridge, you see that they suicides aren’t that uncommon. People just go here instead of the Brooklyn Bridge.

      And I think people use the object they are most familiar with. People must jump off of bridges that they drive over every day to and from work. And if you work IN a bridge all day long (like the Empire), well then…

    • swivel

      If you think of this building as just another big bridge, you see that they suicides aren’t that uncommon. People just go here instead of the Brooklyn Bridge.

      And I think people use the object they are most familiar with. People must jump off of bridges that they drive over every day to and from work. And if you work IN a bridge all day long (like the Empire), well then…

    • McVain

      Swivel… What if you are self employed and work in your house and your house isn’t very tall? Do they dive head first off of it and hope for the best/worst? Or do self employed people have no reason to jump off tall structures?

    • McVain

      Swivel… What if you are self employed and work in your house and your house isn’t very tall? Do they dive head first off of it and hope for the best/worst? Or do self employed people have no reason to jump off tall structures?

    • http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

      I work on the ground floor. I always look like an idiot when I crawl out the window and fall into a heap 3 feet below on to the soft grass. I did hit my head on an automatic sprinkler head one time, though.

    • http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

      I work on the ground floor. I always look like an idiot when I crawl out the window and fall into a heap 3 feet below on to the soft grass. I did hit my head on an automatic sprinkler head one time, though.