Crime & Safety
'Pro-Life Spider-Man' Climbs NYT Building To Protest Abortion: Reports
Days after scaling a California skyscraper, the 22-year-old abortion opponent reportedly climbed the New York Times building in Midtown.
MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — A self-described "Pro-Life Spider-Man" scaled the 721-foot-tall New York Times building near Times Square on Thursday — just days after pulling off a similar stunt in San Francisco, according to online video and reports.
Maison DesChamps began climbing the West 40th Street skyscraper near Eighth Avenue about 5 a.m. Thursday, according to video on his Instagram feed and the New York Post.
Deschamps climbed past the Gray Lady's stories-tall logo then unfurled two banners, video shows.
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"ABORTION KILLS MORE THAN 911 EVERY WEEK," one banner reads. Another showed an image of what DeChamps claimed was an aborted fetus.
"I'm up here on the boss level and no one's up here," DesChamps said in an Instagram video he posted while perched high up on the building.
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DesChamps later posted video showing him descending the building's staircase.
"This stairs thing is hard," he said.
Police on Friday had no information about the incident, including whether DesChamps was arrested.
On Tuesday, DesChamps — identified in news reports as a 22-year-old student — climbed to the top of the 1,000-foot-tall Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, saying he wanted to raise money for anti-abortion charities.
His stunts came days after a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, gutting abortion rights in dozens of states, was leaked by POLITICO.
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