{"id":322249,"date":"2025-10-21T22:27:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/322249\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:27:26","slug":"nyc-window-washer-falls-70-feet-to-death-at-columbia-after-harness-snaps-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/322249\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC window washer falls 70 feet to death at Columbia after harness snaps: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young window washer fell seven stories to his death while working at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nursing.columbia.edu\/research\/research-centers-and-programs\/center-healthcare-delivery-research-and-innovations\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Columbia University\u2019s School of Nursing<\/a> in Washington Heights, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The state Labor Department\u00a0 is investigating the incident, which happened around 9:10 a.m. on Sunday on W. 168th St. near Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that Ander Bustamante, 25, plunged more than 70 feet to the ground when his safety harness snapped.<\/p>\n<p>The city Buildings Department, which conducted a preliminary investigation before the state took it over, said the victim \u201cwas a maintenance worker performing window cleaning operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bustamante was rushed by medics to nearby New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia, but he could not be saved.<\/p>\n<p>He lived in Kearny, N.J.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young window washer fell seven stories to his death while working at Columbia University\u2019s School of Nursing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":322250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-322249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-sub-county-region","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115414515460691203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}