By Alexandra Cheney and Heather Grossmann
DNAinfo Staff
GREENWICH VILLAGE — A paralyzed woman fell to her death from her eighth-floor Greenwich Village apartment and landed on a third floor deck Thursday morning, neighbors said.
Patricia Gregory, 50, was not in her wheelchair when she fell out her bedroom window at 552 LaGuardia Place, police said.
Police responded to a call about the incident at 11:37 a.m. and took the woman to St. Vincent’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
“My parents were in the park and when they came home, the police were already in the apartment,” said Jon Weider, whose elderly parents live in the third-floor apartment with the deck where the body was found.
Fred Antonetti, the superintendent of the building Gregory lived in, said she had lived in the building for more than 14 years. Antonetti said Gregory seemed sad when he saw her at 7:30 a.m. Thursday morning.
"We're very close, but this morning she seemed a little depressed," the distraught superintendent said of his last interaction with Gregory. "She wheeled out and took her two dogs on a walk and was very quiet."
Antonetti said Gregory lived with her husband, son and two dogs.
“This one was a surprise to me, really, because she was always so nice and friendly. Rain, or snow or anything she was always out,” Antonetti said.
Neighbors described Gregory as a well-liked and active resident in the community.
“She’s always up and about and she didn’t seem to be reliant on anyone,” said Patrick Consibine, who works across the street from Gregory’s apartment building. “Even in a snowstorm she would take her two dachshunds out and walk them in the park.”
Consibine described Gregory as “unstoppable” with “her red scooter, red dogs and red hair.”
"We will miss her because she was a wonderful person," said Reggie Hadzi, owner of Tre Giovani's Pizza & Pasta, located down the block from Gregory's apartment. "[She was] a nice lady, always smiling.”
