(NEW YORK) -- A man jumped to his death Friday out the window of a 69th-floor law office in the Empire State Building.
Police responded to the New York City landmark shortly before 3 p.m. after a 911 caller reported seeing a severed leg -- covered in a gray sock -- on the street below. The rest of the body was recovered from a setback on the 30th floor.
The tragedy in the 102-story building closed portions of the busy Midtown Manhattan street while the investigation continued.
Police identified the man as Moshe Kanovsky, a lawyer in his 30s.
More than 30 people have committed suicide at the Empire State Building since it opened in 1931, including a 21-year-old man in February 2006. The skyscraper reaches 1,454 feet to the top of its lightning rod.
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Man jumps to death from Empire State Building office
The Associated Pres
A man jumped out the window of a law office on the 69th floor of the Empire State Building on Friday and fell to his death, police said.
Police responded to the midtown Manhattan landmark at about 2:50 p.m. after a 911 caller reported seeing a leg on 33rd Street. After closing the street between 5th and 6th Avenues, they discovered that the body had landed on a setback on the 30th floor.
The name of victim, a lawyer in his 30s, was not immediately released.
Detectives on the street were photographing the leg, which was severed below the knee with the foot still covered in a dark gray sock.
In February 2006, a 21-year-old New York man jumped to his death after buying a ticket to its observation deck. Dovid Abramowitz jumped from a vacant office on the 66th floor of the 102-story building.
More than 30 people have committed suicide at the Empire State Building since it opened in 1931. The skyscraper reaches 1,454 feet to the top of its lightning rod.
