17-Year-Old Girl Jumps To Death From Luxury NYC Building's 8th Floor

A 17-year-old girl died Sunday afternoon after she threw herself from the eighth floor of a luxury New York building.

The girl jumped from the eighth floor of a high-rise building in Manhattan's posh neighborhood on 82nd Street of the Upper East Side, and died on the spot around 12:54 p.m., the police told the New York Post.

The deceased's identity wasn't released by the authorities.

One eyewitness told the outlet that they saw an ambulance on the site.

"I was coming out of my apartment and there were three ambulances on the block," the unnamed person said. "It's horrible. It's absolutely horrendous."

A doorman, who worked on the block, told the New York Post her death marks the sixth case in the last six months of someone taking a fatal plunge in the area.

"It's just crazy," the doorman said.

The teen's death comes less than a week after a 26-year-old woman in New York plunged to her death from a high-rise building in Times Square. Bystanders saw the woman make the fatal plunge off the 54th floor of Hyatt Centric on Wednesday. She was apparently visiting Bar 54, an open-air restaurant located at the top of the building, prior to her death. A staff member recalled the woman getting up from her seat and going toward the terrace, and jumping from there by standing atop a piece of furniture.

In a high-profile death, which occurred in January last year, former Miss USA AJ McDougall jumped to her death from a Manhattan skyscraper. Kryst's body was found on the sidewalk outside the Orion Condominium building, where she lived on the ninth floor. Kryst had left a cryptic message on her Instagram page for an unknown person shortly before she jumped.

New York ranks 32nd in the list of the U.S.' yearly suicide statistics by state, accounting for 1,642 deaths per 100,000 total population, and leaping off a building has been understood to be the most common means to end one's life since the city is home to a large number of skyscrapers.

If you have thoughts of suicide, confidential help is available for free at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Call 1-800-273-8255. The line is available 24 hours, every day.