{"id":11401,"date":"2025-10-21T23:43:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11401\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:43:33","slug":"nyc-window-washer-falls-70-feet-to-death-at-columbia-after-harness-snaps-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11401\/","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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":2,"featured_media":11402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,56,63,261,65,64,265],"class_list":["post-11401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}