A 35-year-old man plunged from a high-rise in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon with a toddler believed to be his son, the police said. Both the man and the child died.
The Fire Department said it received a call just after 12 p.m. that a person had fallen from an apartment tower at or near West 60th Street. When paramedics arrived, they found the body of the man, who was not immediately identified, and a child, who was in critical condition, the police said.
The child, who was also not identified, was taken to Roosevelt Hospital nearby, but pronounced dead shortly afterward.
The police said they believed the child was a boy who was either 3 or 4 years old.
In March, a 44-year-old woman holding her 10-month-old boy jumped from the eighth floor of her Harlem apartment building. The woman, Cynthia Wachenheim, a lawyer on child care leave from her job, left a suicide note. She died from the fall, but her son, Keston Bacharach, survived.
The Fire Department said it received a call just after 12 p.m. that a person had fallen from an apartment tower at or near West 60th Street. When paramedics arrived, they found the body of the man, who was not immediately identified, and a child, who was in critical condition, the police said.
The child, who was also not identified, was taken to Roosevelt Hospital nearby, but pronounced dead shortly afterward.
The police said they believed the child was a boy who was either 3 or 4 years old.
In March, a 44-year-old woman holding her 10-month-old boy jumped from the eighth floor of her Harlem apartment building. The woman, Cynthia Wachenheim, a lawyer on child care leave from her job, left a suicide note. She died from the fall, but her son, Keston Bacharach, survived.