By KERRY BURKE and ADAM SHRIER
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 10, 2018 | 10:00 PM
Woman found dead in trash compactor of high-end Union Square condo
Members of the NYPD crime scene unit investigate after a woman was discovered in trash compactor of the Zeckendorf Towers in Manhattan today. (Howard Simmons / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
A woman was found dead inside the trash compactor of her high-end Union Square apartment building Tuesday, cops said.
The body of the 48-year-old resident was discovered by a building maintenance worker inside the garbage chute of the Zeckendorf Towers, a luxury condo complex at the corner of Irving Place and E. 15th St., around 4:55 p.m., according to police.
She went "down the chute and slid down like garbage," said a co-worker of the man who found the victim.
"She fell from the 27th floor," he said.
It was not immediately clear how the woman died.
Her name was withheld as police worked to notify her family.
Surveillance footage shows the woman walking alone in the hallway a short time before the fatal plunge "like there's nothing wrong,"sources said.
"She was very pleasant. She was happy," said the building?s doorman, who declined to give his name. "She went up to her apartment and then she jumped into the chute."
The victim's purse was found discarded by the building's elevator, according to sources.
The 29-story luxury development a block from Union Square Park was once home to disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner and wife Huma Abedin.
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