NYC Woman Throws Herself Off Rooftop Bar, Party People Keep Drinking

30 year old Faigy Mayer, who claims she had been shunned by her religious parents, jumped to her death from a rooftop bar in New York on Monday night – and, somewhat horrifyingly, hardly any of the bar’s patrons noticed, so just carried on partying. “She had on shoes and a dress”.

Ms Mayer was a member of Footsteps, a group that provides “social and emotional support, educational and vocational guidance, workshops and social activities, and access to resources” to members of the strictly-Orthodox community who wish to leave.

In March, Mayer noted that it had been five years since leaving the Hasidic community.

Our thoughts are with Faigy’s family and friends during this hard time. “I am so grateful for the life I have and the blessings therein!”

She appeared in a 2009 National Geographic documentary called Inside Hasidism, according to the New York Post “It was actually at the age of 3 that I already showed no interest in Yiddish or Hebrew”, Mayer said on the program “It was just like so challenging, like the whole transition”. I hope to blog to share my story. “I don’t know what made her do it. Maybe she felt like there was no way out”.

Witness Becky Whittemore said:”There was a big corporate party up there and she kind of ran through them and jumped”. The question was laden with symbolism.

“She wanted the app to guide people through how to do things that seem easy and mundane like ordering at a restaurant they have never been to before”, Mayer’s friend Chanie Friedman told CNNMoney. Daily Intel reports that she was a graduate student at CUNY, “and had a bachelor’s degree from Touro College and a master’s degree from Brooklyn College, all in accounting”. Many, like Mayer, get into math, science or engineering. ‘You can tell it was a lady. “She was always really excited about whatever she was doing”.

“She wanted to be a successful, iOS developer; she was taking classes”, Wisdom said. “She was having some trouble”. “She had problems from the inside and she was in a lot of pain”. She wrote, “Paid job: looking for someone to help me move on Sunday, June 28, from Greenpoint to a 20 min drive away”.

At her funeral yesterday, one mourner told Pix 11 that Mayer “asked her family for pictures of when she was a baby, and they didn’t want to give them to her”.