NYPD seeks to ID man who leaped to death from Deutsche Bank Center rooftop in Manhattan

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Celebrities have homes in the Deutsche Bank Center at Columbus Circle — adding to the intrigue among the building’s denizens about a man who leaped 750 feet to his death from one of the building’s rooftops.

Cops were still working Saturday to identify the man who died at a building that besides also houses the high-end Mandarin Oriental Hotel and an upscale shopping mall.

The victim, believed to be in his 30s, jumped from the Deutsche Bank Center tower that houses the hotel, on the building’s northern side.

He plunged through the Mandarin Oriental Hotel’s marquee before hitting the sidewalk just after 9 p.m. Thursday. He was clad in pajama bottoms, a print T-shirt and slippers, according to a cop at the scene.

On Saturday, passersby stared up at the gaping hole the man’s body created as he fell to his death.

“I’ve worked in this area for a good two years, that has never happened,” said Henry, 59, a construction worker

Investigators believe the man entered the building through a loading dock area and rode a freight elevator to the hotel tower’s rooftop level, a police source said. Police sources said the man was not a hotel guest.

“A homeless person wouldn’t get through security,” said a worker at the building who didn’t want to share his name.

Police found a credit card in his pocket, with a name written on it and no photograph, the police source said.

Among the residents of the Deutsche Bank Center are hip-hop star Jay-Z, NFL quarterback Tom Brady and Joe Ricketts, the billionaire owner of the Chicago Cubs. Apartments in the building can fetch between $5 million and $19 million.

Until 2021, the building was known as the Time Warner Center.