On Monday night, an unknown person was found dead after leaping from the 230 Fifth Rooftop Bar on Fifth Avenue and 27th Street – 20 stories up. She was wearing a dress and heels.
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Among the organizations with likes on Mayer’s Facebook page, renamed “Remembering Faigy Mayer“, is Openly Off the Derech, a support group for formerly religious people. The transition can be hard.
Mayer was raised in the Borough Park’s Hasidic community but identified as an ex-Hasid, Sharpe explained. “I am so grateful for the life I have and the blessings therein!”
Mayer was featured in a 2012 National Geographic documentary titled “Only For God: Inside Hasidism“, which profiles several people discussing how they left the tight-knit community to live a secular lifestyle.
It was not known if Mayer was connected to the party. The question was laden with symbolism.
After the bartender pointed, Mayer walked over to a 4¹/₂-foot brick wall along the roof and put one leg over it, then the other, the source said.
Bar-goers reportedly kept partying; the bar simply sectioned off the area from which she jumped, and the bottle service continued through the night.
Mayer 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. Just this year, she also earned a certificate in Data Science Specialization from Johns Hopkins University.
At the time of the incident, she was working on an app to help homeless LGBT youth. “She told you what she thought. She was always really excited about whatever she was doing”.
The 30-year-old had been suffering from manic depression for years, which friends linked with her family’s rejection after she chose to leave the Hasidic Jewish faith. “She was having some trouble”. “I think a lot of the people up there had zero clue what was going on”. “She has a history of emotional problems and was seeing a psychiatrist”.
“And I confided in her, when I was feeling suicidal myself”, Huss confided, “and she talked me out of it”.
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”.
Another friend, Jason Wisdom, told KTLA sister station WPIX that Mayer wanted to be a tech entrepreneur.
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