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WOMAN JUMPS FROM EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

A middle-aged woman plunged to her death today after she apparently jumped out a 39th-floor window of the Empire State Building, police said.

The 54-year-old Manhattan woman, whose name was witheld pending family notification, was working at North Bay Apparel clothing store in the famed 5th Avenue skscraper when she leaped out a window just before noon, cops said.

She crashed down on a balcony on the 25th-floor and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police sources said the woman, who lived on West 34th Street, did not leave a suicide note.