Monday, December 20th, 2010

Friends and coworkers are sad and puzzled after a young woman with a bright future committed suicide on the Upper West Side on Saturday.  The New York Post reports that Jessica Fashano, 27, entered the Trump Place apartment building at 180 Riverside Boulevard (between 68th and 69th) on Saturday morning, asked a resident how to get to the roof, then jumped from the roof of the 40-story-building towards an internal courtyard.  Fashano, who lived in an apartment on West 53rd Street, was an investment banking associate at Citi Global Markets and an active participant in the Acumen Fund, a non-profit dedicated to making small-business loans to people in developing countries, as well as Harboring Hearts Housing, a charity that provides lodging at modest prices for cardiac patients, according to The New York Times.  Those who knew Fashano, including coworkers at Citi, roommates, and former classmates at Georgetown, are shocked by her death, from the details surrounding the morning (including why she chose the building) to the reasons behind the suicide (she was scheduled to have brunch with a friend on Saturday morning).  A spokesman for Citi said that the firm is “deeply saddened” by Fashano’s death.

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