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| People walk through the Oculus mall at World Trade Center on August 17, 2016. |
NEW
YORK (AP) — A 29-year-old New Jersey woman plunged about 30 feet to her
death off an escalator inside the famed World Trade Center transit hub
known as the Oculus on Saturday morning, police said.
Jenny
Santos, of Kearny, was trying to retrieve a hat dropped by her twin
sister while the two were on an escalator at about 5:30 a.m. when she
reached too far over the railing and tumbled over the edge, a law
enforcement official said. The official wasn't authorized to speak
publicly about the incident and spoke to The Associated Press on
condition of anonymity.
Port
Authority police spokesman Joseph Pentangelo said the woman was taken
to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. Police are investigating.
The
striking $3.9 billion transportation hub was designed by architect
Santiago Calatrava and provides connections between New Jersey's PATH
trains and New York City's subways. It opened about a year ago and is
used daily by more than 300,000 commuters. Light beams in from the
windows in the dizzying, soaring platform to the shopping mall below.
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