At a bit past 9pm on Sunday night, the NYPD received a call about an unresponsive individual on East 82nd Street between Park and Lexington avenues.
When the officers arrived, they observed a 27-year-old male unconscious and unresponsive, with trauma to the body.
“The injuries of the individual are consistent with those of a fall from an elevated position,” an NYPD representative told East Side Feed.
EMS responded and transported the individual to New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased.
(Update, 6/22): The 27-year-old individual has now been identified as Josh Weiner. His address of record was on the Upper East Side.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. The investigation remains ongoing at this time.
The NYPD report includes 131 East 82nd Street as the address of the incident, though police tape was wrapped around the entrance of the Moise Safra Center at 130 East 82nd Street, across the street.
We have reached out to the Moise Safra Center by phone and email for comment.
Photo: Bobby Panza
Photo: Bobby Panza
We will provide more updates if and when we learn more.
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I was walking down the street when it happened, and was one of the many people who called 911.
On a quiet peaceful night walking up the street, I heard an inhuman scream, look up and see a man wearing an orange tee shirt hurtling towards the sidewalk. He hit the metal awning, and then crashed onto the sidewalk.
I will never forget his body twisting and turning on its way down to the ground.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I subtract “sympathy points” whenever someone takes their own life in a manner that endangers or forever traumatizes others.
Appreciate this comment — feel like I have seen this traumatic event reflected “in the eyes” of many neighbors on the block this week– the doorman whose job it is to stand there at look at this place!
This was HORRIBLE. I won’t be walking on that side of the street again for many months…
Moise Safra already having parties… I just thought some type of recognition, as a part of this neighborhood, would have been appropriate.
Last Thursday, evening within 72 hours, there was a cocktail party on the Safra terrace. The black bunting on the west corner of the terrace was removed that afternoon.
Strange that there isn’t any info on this anywhere else, at least none that came up on a search for “Moise Safra Center”.
I found the Center easily on the web.
Yes, it seems strange to me as well that the moise safra center hasn’t made any statement. Perhaps assure neighbors they will take steps to prevent future risk.
Very fishy but not surprising that the police report has the wrong address for this incident.
NYPD knows that odd building Numbers are on the north side of every street and yet they indicated an odd number in their report and crime tape was placed across the entrance of the center on the south side of the street which is clearly marked in large numerals 130 E. 82nd St. .in fact there is no 131 East 82nd on that block!
Cleary Safra did not want any story in the media to be easily found.
Good points, and seems really unfortunate from what should be a cultural institution leading, not running away from, difficult conversations.
This definitely didn’t happen from the 3 story building next door…
From the street you can now see black fabric covering the 10th floor terrace wall at the Moise Safra Center, 130 East 82nd directly above where the body fell on top of the metal awning and then landed on a parked car. This was witnessed by the doorman at 122 East 82nd next door to the Safra Center.
Thanks for that. It pretty much confirms that it happened at the Center. I had thought it could have been that he had jumped (or been pushed) off some other nearby building and had crawled to that location before passing.
What a sad story. What kind of monster has taken over that boy in the prime of his life? To make him feel so low on life, depressed, not loved, ignored and not needed. We have to be kind to one another, encourage one another, support one another. Mental health heals faster when a person is treated kind and nice and shown love and acceptance. Drug usage starts also with numbing some sort of pain or disappointment. Let’s tell one another to enjoy every moment, to see the best in every situation, to look forward with excitement in anticipation of something good. Turn away from negative anything- it just disturbs you. Turn your eyes and everyone who crosses your path to the sunshine and positive feelings and attitudes. You don’t know who’s life you might be saving…
Please, please, as a mother who has known this young man all his life, please do not share any more details of his death. Please spare his parents this pain. I know it is traumatic for so many and if you feel compelled to comment, then do, but I implore you, spare his family any details of the last moments of his life. He was a beautiful young man who, even in the last moments of his life, celebrated the family that loved him and the world he lived in. Consider his family and friends if you feel the need to post.
Ditto!