Student jumps to death in NYU library

A New York University junior jumped 10 stories to his death inside a library early Tuesday, police and a police source said.

Andrew E. Williamson-Noble, 20, of Irvington, N.Y., was found unresponsive in the lobby of Bobst library on Washington Square about 4:30 a.m., police said.

A police source said that using an identity card, the victim “swiped himself in, went to the 10th-floor balcony and jumped.”

The student was a junior in the College of Arts and Science, school president John Sexton said in a schoolwide e-mail.

Williamson-Noble was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 5 a.m., officials said. An investigation is ongoing.

“The impulse for self-harm – particularly among young men and women with so much talent and so much to live for – is incomprehensible to me,” Sexton wrote.

Not counting Tuesday, the university has had six suicides in as many years, prompting the school to block access to its balconies.

Bobst Library has an atrium design. NYU installed see-through barriers that made it more difficult to jump from its upper floors after two students jumped to their deaths there in 2003.

In 2007, sophomore Pranay Angara was found dead in his dorm room after he suffocated himself with a plastic bag. Also, student Allan Hunter, 18, jumped to his death from an East 14th Street building.

With the AP.

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