Man Jumps To Death From UWS Public Housing Building

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A man died Tuesday night after jumping from the window of an Upper West Side public housing building.

Police responded to 80 Amsterdam Ave. — a building in the New York City Housing Authority's Amsterdam Houses complex on Amsterdam Avenue and West 64th Street — around 11 p.m. and found the body of a 50-year-old man on a scaffold.

EMS pronounced the man dead at the scene, and police investigators determined he jumped from an apartment window. The man was identified as Bobby Richardson, a resident of the housing complex.

Family members told the New York Post that Richardson lived on the fifth floor of the building with his older brother. The man's sister-in-law said that her daughter witnessed the man's fatal leap.

"I’m like, ‘What do you mean? What are you saying to me?’ I looked out my window, saw all the cop cars, and I came down stairs.," Deborah Armstrong told the New York Post.

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