A 33-year-old man died Tuesday after he fell from a Chelsea construction site, authorities said.
The man, who was not a construction worker, crept into the site on W. 28th St. and Sixth Ave. — the future home of a new hotel — at about 7:50 a.m. and scaled to the 17th floor before jumping or slipping, witnesses told police.
After the fall, construction workers rushed out of the building to find medics doing chest compressions.
“He jumped. That’s all we know,” said one hardhat who did not want to be named. “They said he isn’t from this worksite...that he snuck in here and was taking pictures despite no one knowing who he was.”
It was not immediately clear if a camera was recovered from the scene.
Construction workers were stunned how a stranger could get onto the property.
“We don’t know if he was just some random guy,” another construction worker said. “He didn’t have ... rope or construction gloves or anything.”
Medics rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, where he died of his injuries. His name was not immediately disclosed.
Cops were investigating how the man got onto the site and managed to climb to a high floor.
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