By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MURRAY HILL — A man jumped to his death from a residential building on 34th Street Monday morning, police said.
The man, described as an elderly resident of the building at 120 E. 34th St., broke the window of his apartment and plunged 16 stories, landing on a second-floor terrace, the building’s superintendent said.
Joseph Rudovic said that he was standing outside the building when he heard a loud crash and saw shards of glass falling just after 11 a.m. He then went to the second-floor apartment, where he discovered the man laying face down on the apartment’s terrace, he said.
Rudovic added that the man, who lived in the building with his wife, had resided there for more than 20 years and had recently returned from a stay in the hospital.
“He didn’t look happy most of the time,” the superintendent added.
Police did not have information regarding the man’s identity as of Wednesday afternoon, but Rudovic described him as being in his 70s.
The incident follows at least three suicide jumps from Midtown high-rises in recent weeks.
Last month, a Yale student leapt from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building, and another man plunged from a 34-story residential building across from Rockefeller Center. A third man jumped from the 42nd-floor roof of the Le Parker Meridien Hotel last week.
A teenager survived a leap of 200 feet from the George Washington Bridge last week in another apparent suicide attempt.
