Authorities say a 21-year-old man plunged to his death in an apparent suicide jump off the Empire State Building during the evening rush hour.
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Police say the man was dead when rescue workers arrived at the 102-story skyscraper shortly before 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Authorities wouldn't immediately release his name or say from which floor he had jumped.
The Empire State Building is the third-tallest building in the United States. More than 30 people have committed suicide at the building since it opened in 1931.
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Before Tuesday, the most recent was believed to have been in 2006, when a man jumped from a vacant office on the 66th floor.
The skyscraper reaches 1,454 feet to the top of its lightning rod.















