A 54-year-old man who witnesses said was taking a smoke break died Saturday in a fall from a six-story building in Manhattan’s Chinatown, police said.
Police were called to the rear of the building on Eldridge St. near Hester St. about 9:15 a.m. where they found the victim sprawled on the ground.
The man’s body was found in the rear of the building on Eldridge St. (Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News)
The man died at the scene. His name was not immediately released as cops tried to track down family members.
Witnesses told police that he was smoking a cigarette on an upper-floor fire escape just before his death.
It was not immediately clear how the man fell. Cops were also trying to determine if he fell from the fire escape or the roof.
An autopsy has been slated to determine how the man died, officials said.
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