SUICIDE PLUNGE AT HOTEL
By BRIGITTE WILLIAMS and JOE McGURK
April 27, 2005 -- A woman plunged to her death last night from the roof of a 12-story Manhattan hotel in an apparent suicide, cops said.
The unidentified blonde, described as being in her 40s, had apparently gone to the roof of the Hotel Thirty Thirty at 29 E. 29th St. because the windows of the rooms there only open 10 inches, police said.
She landed on 29th Street.
Police closed off the street for several hours as stunned tourists huddled outside the hotel.
"You've got to be pretty depressed to jump from a building," said a tourist from London, who did not want to be identified.
Police said it was unclear whether the woman left a note.
Her passport was found, but cops would not say whether she was an American citizen.
Police withheld her name pending notification of her family.
Hotel officials refused to comment.
The building, previously known as the Martha Washington Hotel, was built in 1902.
The hotel opened in 1903 and only housed female guests.
It was gutted and renamed the Hotel Thirty Thirty in August 2003.
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