A 23-year-old woman was killed after she plunged from the roof of a Manhattan townhouse during a party early Sunday morning.
Cindy Yeh was dancing at a rooftop party on Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village when she got too close to the edge and fell four stories to the sidewalk below at around 1:10 a.m., police told the New York Post. She was declared brain dead after she was rushed to Bellevue Hospital.
Her family arrived from California and had her taken off life support, police told DNAinfo.
Yeh, who lived in Brooklyn, was engaged to be married and was an intern at the Museum of Modern Art. The party hosts were having a last hurrah in the building before the end of their lease.
A 25-year-old man told the NY Post he was out walking with his wife when he came across the horrific scene.
"It was like she just tumbled down and smashed down in front of the building," he said. "Her friends ran out of the door screaming. A guy held her and yelled out, 'She's still breathing!' "
After the fatal incident the Department of Buildings issued two violations against the Sullivan Street building, DNAinfo reported. One was for illegal use of the roof and the other was for an illegal wooden deck built in the back of the building on the second floor.
According to several of the building's tenants, the roof is often used as a party spot.
"It gets loud up there, and it goes on until late," 25-year-old Rene Felio told the NY Post. "Lots of drinking, too, and I am sure roofs and getting drunk are a bad mix."
Department of Building records show that a woman named Marie Henriques is the building's owner. She did not return the newspaper's request for comment.
