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UPPER WEST SIDE , NY — The NYPD is investigating the death of a 56-year-old woman who fatally fell 15 stories from an Upper West Side building as a suicide, an NYPD spokesman told Patch . The woman was found on the second-story scaffolding outside 820 West End Avenue , located on the corner of West 100th Street , shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday night, police said. She was unconscious and unresponsive and paramedics declared her dead on the scene, police said. The woman was not identified by police. (For more Upper West Side news , subscribe to Patch to get a daily newsletter and breaking news alerts .) The NYPD believes the woman jumped from her friend's 16th floor apartment , a department spokesperson told Patch . The friend who owns the apartment was brought in for questioning and released, the NYPD spokesman said. The investigation into the woman's death is ongoing, police told Patch . Photo by Google Maps street view Get free real- time news alerts from the Upper West S...

The death of a woman who fatally fell from the roof of her building in East Harlem on Saturday appears to be a suicide, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said Monday.  Yanina Boitel, 33, was found at about 9:30 p.m. on Saturday night on the ground outside the building on Third Avenue, between 112th and 115th streets, police said.  Investigators thought Boitel could have been pushed, a police source said Sunday, but after speaking with her boyfriend and a witness, Boyce said foul play is no longer suspected. "Right now we're looking at it as a suicide," he said at an unrelated news conference Monday Her boyfriend does not have any prior arrests, he added. Boitel was taken to Metropolitan Hospital Center where she died of her injuries, a police spokesman said. With Alison Fox and Vin Barone