NYU professor leaps to death from apart from 16th floor of a Village high-rise after heated argument w/wife (221 hits)
An NYU professor jumped to his death from the 16th floor of a Greenwich Village high-rise last night after a heated argument with his wife over the care of their kids, cops said.
Investigators said the agitated educator stalked into a back room of his apartment in the Washington Square Village housing complex and went off a balcony so quietly that his wife did not realize what had happened until she couldn't find him.
He landed in the courtyard of the building between LaGuardia Place and W. Third St.
"The wife came down and asked if it was true somebody jumped," said a doorman at the NYU staff housing complex. "When we told her, she just started wailing."
Police said the victim was in his late 30s, but declined to give his name or describe his work at NYU.
A building worker said the couple had been arguing over the care of their young twins, a girl and a boy.
"But he seemed to be a very happy guy, so no one expected anything like this," the worker said.
