Upper East Side

Upper East Sider Cleaning His 6th-Floor Apartment Windows Dies in Fall

No criminality is suspected

A 61-year-old man was found dead Saturday in the courtyard of his Manhattan apartment building after falling from his sixth-floor unit as he cleaned the windows, authorities said.

Police said he was discovered around 7 a.m. outside the 21-story high-rise on the Upper East Side. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

No criminality is suspected.

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His official cause of death will be determined by the city medical examiner.

The man's name has not been released.

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