New York Post

Fearless dude death plunge

Village dangler was hanging out: cops

- By NATALIE MUSUMECIMU­SUMECI, LARRY CELONA & RUTH BROWN rbrown@nyopst.com

A daredevil who posted Instagram photos of himself scaling risky heights died after falling from a West Village building, according to police.

The body of Jackson Coe, 25, was discovered in the back yard of the six-story building at 160 Waverly Place near Grove Street at 7:50 a.m. Thursday, cops said, adding that he had sustained injuries consistent with a fall.

Coe (above) had been drinking with a friend beforehand, law-enforcemen­t sources told The Post.

“There was a beer can next to him,” a building neighbor told The Post Thursday, adding that residents summoned an ambulance. “We just thought he was drunk.”

One photo (right) Coe posted to Instagram in April shows him dangling his legs off the side of a very tall building in Manhattan while wearing bright-red Nikes.

“What the hell are you doing,” his mom commented on the pic. “hahaha just on a roof,” he replied. Another snap last year was taken from the edge of a mountain in Alberta, Canada. Others show Coe and his friends backflippi­ng into the ocean off cliffs and boats.

Following Coe’s death, a friend posted a photo on Instagram of the pair drinking shirtless on the roof of Williamsbu­rg’s William Vale hotel.

“You’ve left me with some of the best memories — I’m so sad that you won’t be able to bless us with more,” Louis Con wrote. “Rest easy my brother.”

Coe, who lived in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, worked as a growth-marketing associate at GrubHub, the food-ordering Web site confirmed.

“We are deeply saddened by this news, and our thoughts are with Jackson’s family and friends dur- ing this difficult time,” the company said in a statement.

He had previously worked for Tough Mudder, an organizer of extreme endurance events. Coe posted a video of himself doing flips off a trapeze and into a pool of water during a 2016 Tough Mudder event on Long Island.

He’s not the first Big Apple thrillseek­er to plummet to his death.

In 2016, extreme photograph­er Christophe­r Serrano, 25, fell to his death while subway surfing atop an F train. He, too, had posted several Instagram photos of his legs dangling off the sides of skyscraper­s.

A year earlier, Connor Cummings, 20, fatally fell while snapping photos from scaffoldin­g atop the Four Seasons hotel in Midtown.

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