MANHATTAN — The body of a young man who went missing from his Stuyvesant Town apartment on Dec. 1 was found floating in the Hudson River near the Battery Maritime Building on Wednesday, according to the NYPD.
Andreas Robbins, 25, was last seen leaving his Stuy Town building at 521 E. 14th St. His girlfriend told police that Robbins said he was depressed and threatened to jump off the George Washington Bridge, an NYPD spokesman said.
Police sent out harbor and aviation units to search the water around the bridge, but couldn’t initially find Robbins, the spokesman added.
Robbins was the son of two Columbia University professors, Bruce Robbins and Elsa Stamatopoulou, according to a Facebook page that was set up when he went missing.
“He’s [helped] me through all kinds of times in my life and always believed in me and supported me categorically," one friend wrote on the page, "and his sincere love for every person he ever encountered and his refreshingly selfless attitude inspired me to be a human rights advocate — he would always teach me how to be a better, more open, ethical, and critical human being."
The medical examiner will determine a cause of death, and a police investigation is ongoing.
