Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

An actor jumped off the 40-story West End Towers residential building (West End Avenue at 63rd) yesterday morning but miraculously survived, reports The New York Post.  Tom Magill, 22, jumped off the roof of the building at 10:44 am and fell over 400 feet before landing on a parked Dodge Charger.  The roof and back window of the car, owned by a construction worker working at a residential building next door, broke Magill’s fall, saving his life and leaving him with only a broken leg, shattered ankle, and collapsed lung.  He was in fact conscious when EMS arrived.  While a suicide note was not found, the struggling Broadway actor reportedly wrote “I hate my life” on his Facebook page and most believed that the fall was not accidental.

Filed under: News, Upper West Side, Upper West Side Blog
Tags: Suicide, Suicide Attempt, Thomas Magill, West End Towers