Man Jumps To Death From Harlem Building, Police Say

HARLEM, NY — A man jumped to his death early Friday morning from a Harlem building owned by Columbia University, an NYPD spokesman told Patch.

The 31-year-old leaped from the 10th floor of a building on Amsterdam Avenue between West 120th and 119th street, police told Patch. He was taken to St. Luke's Hospital and pronounced dead, an NYPD spokesman told Patch.

The building the man jumped from is owned by Columbia University but the man was not a student at the Ivy League institution, an NYPD spokesman told Patch.

The NYPD is investigating the man's death but have reason to believe it is a suicide, an NYPD spokesman told Patch.

The New York Post reported that the man jumped after an argument with his wife, but a police spokesman could not confirm that detail.

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