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14-Year-Old NJ Boy Said Nothing Before Deadly Leap From Hudson Yards Vessel, Report Says 14-Year-Old NJ Boy Said Nothing Before Deadly Leap From Hudson Yards Vessel, Report Says
14-Year-Old NJ Boy Said Nothing Before Deadly Leap From Hudson Yards Vessel, Report Says A 14-year-old New Jersey boy leapt to his death from The Vessel at Hudson Yards in New York City Thursday. The teen was with his parents, sister and grandmother, and said nothing before the jumped around 12:50 p.m., the New York Post reports. Police did not disclose the boy's identity, however, NJ1015 says he was from Livingston. This is the fourth suicide at the building in the last 18 months, and could prompt The Vessel to close, the outlet said. “We are heartbroken by this tragedy and our thoughts are with the family of the young person who lost his life,” Hudson Yards spokeswoman Kimb…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
NYC Woman Follows Fatal Leap From Hudson Yards Vessel With Heartbreaking Instagram Post NYC Woman Follows Fatal Leap From Hudson Yards Vessel With Heartbreaking Instagram Post
NYC Woman Follows Fatal Leap From Hudson Yards Vessel With Heartbreaking Instagram Post A 24-year-old New York City woman leapt to her death from the Vessel in Hudson Yards on Tuesday. Yocheved Gourarie, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, scheduled an Instagram post to publish the following day, where she assured strangers and loved ones alike: "I am no longer in pain." Last February, Somerset County native Peter DeSalvo, 19, took a fatal plunge from the landmark structure. Gourarie was the valedictorian of her graduating class at Shalhevet High School, and went on to graduate with a perfect GPA from highly-selective Macauly Honors College at CUNY, The Village Sun reports. Gourari…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Somerset Athlete Leaps To Death From New NY Landmark Somerset Athlete Leaps To Death From New NY Landmark
Somerset Athlete Leaps To Death From New NY Landmark A former high school rugby star from Basking Ridge leaped to his death from a landmark structure at the brand-new Hudson Yards in Manhattan over the weekend, authorities confirmed. Peter DeSalvo, 19, a freshman at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, jumped to his death from the sixth story of The Vessel, 150 or so feet above West 33rd Street near the Hudson River, around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, according to published reports. He didn’t leave a note, loved ones said. DeSalvo, who was a member of SHU's rugby club, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, after jumping fr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
Facebook Signs Move To NYC's Hudson Yards: Three Buildings, 30 Floors, 1.5 Million Square Feet Facebook Signs Move To NYC's Hudson Yards: Three Buildings, 30 Floors, 1.5 Million Square Feet
Facebook Signs Move To NYC's Hudson Yards: Three Buildings, 30 Floors, 1.5 Million Square Feet The Manhattan magnet that is Hudson Yards just landed another huge client: Facebook has signed a lease for a massive new operations hub on the waterfront. The social media giant is planting an enormous footprint, leasing more than 1.5 million square feet of space in three buildings across 30 floors, including 1.2 million square feet in the development’s spectacular 1,000-foot-tall tower, Hudson Yards announced Thursday. Facebook, which currently has its main Manhattan office off Astor Place, plans to head to its West Side digs next year. “When considering the next phase of our growth in th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lifestyle
You've Probably Never Seen The NYC Skyline Like This Before You've Probably Never Seen The NYC Skyline Like This Before
You've Probably Never Seen The NYC Skyline Like This Before There's been a lot of buzz about Hudson Yards, the recently opened residential/retail complex in lower Manhattan featuring the distinctive, interactive public art space known as "Vessel," as it has been temporarily dubbed.  But there's been relatively little talk about how the development, a cluster of towers centered on 10th Avenue and W. 30th St., looks from the Jersey side of the Hudson, the vantage that offers the best view of Manhattan's western edge.  Turns out, that view is kinda freaky, as Jersey City resident Jon Matthias recently discovered.  He took advantage of a…

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by Paul Milo