NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The Empire State Building's 86th floor observation deck will remain open from its regular hours of 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. Wednesday, a day after a man reported to be a Yale University student jumped to his death from the 86th floor Tuesday.
A customer service representative at the Empire State Building said that everything was operating as normal, and the incident had no impact on its regular schedule. However, a spokesman for the Empire State Building declined to comment on any inquiries surrounding the incident.
Dabaghi, 21, from Austin, Texas was an East Asian studies major and set to graduate next year. Police said he jumped from the building at about 6:15 p.m., plunging onto West 34th Street in front of a Bank of America building. Reports said the 86th floor was relatively quiet Tuesday evening due to the bad weather.
More than 30 people have jumped to their deaths from the Empire State Building since it opened in 1931.
4 comments:
Good reason to have children on other moons and planets from now on.
I think his soul went straight home to Krypton. The kryptonite on Earth did him in.
He was probably hyper-ventilating from the news about the stepped up testing on the Large Hadron Collider. He figured he might as well end it by jumping instead of being melted alive by 600 milion positrons.
Just to show what he thought about Bank of America and Yale. Too bad he didn't go to Astronaut Training School, he would have had something to live for. Teach your children well....about space, they have choices. It's just like teaching them to swim, but they have to at least wade in the kiddy pool before jumping into the big pool of space.
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