Double death leaps
Women take fatal plunges in separate downtown incidents
TWO WOMEN died Friday after plummeting from Manhattan buildings just two miles apart from each other, authorities said.
A 44-year-old woman fell to her death from a luxury residential building at 15 Broad St. at Wall St. — in the heart of the Financial District — around 10:15 p.m., officials said.
She apparently jumped, police sources said.
Horrified witnesses recalled hearing a thud. When they turned around, the woman, described as a blond, was sprawled out on the ground, cops were told.
“It made me jump,” said a dog walker who was just yards away from where the unidentified woman fell. “The dog jumped.”
“There was a trail of blood,” said another stunned witness, who wished not to be named. “I’m just freaked out.”
Witness George Banks said he was at his truck about a half block away when he heard the tragic woman land.
“It sounded like a tire blew out,” he said.The woman appar- ently leaped from her 20th-floor apartment of the Downtown by Starck building — where one-bedroom flats come with a $1.4 million pricetag, according to Cityrealty.com.
She landed across the street from a Christmas tree, witnesses said.
The grisly scene turned even more poignantly heartbreaking when a food deliveryman obliviously crossed the police tape to get into the building’s lobby and a group of clueless tourists walked by and began taking photos of the treet — completely unaware that a personp had just died only a few feetf away.
Several hours earlier, and a c couple miles uptown, a 66-yearo old woman leaped from a Green S St. building in SoHo at about 4:45 p p.m., officials said.
The woman jumped from an 1 11th-floor window during an app parent suicide, police sources s said. Her name was not immedia ately released.
Further uptown in Hamilton H Heights, cops in scuba gear s searched the waters off of Riverb bank State Park after an emotionally disturbed man left a note claiming he was going to kill himself there.
No body was recovered, officials said.
The two women’s deaths took place just 13 days before Christmas.