One man took a leap for love — and landed right on an octogenarian, according to a lawsuit.
Upper East Sider Raymond Wolff says he was walking past the LOVE sculpture on West 55th Street when he was smashed into the ground by a young man who jumped from the big red letters.
The impact of the ill-timed crash left Wolff, an orchestra conductor, with a broken femur that required surgery, according to his attorney, Joel Turney.
“It pretty much rendered him almost homebound,” Turney said.
The jumper didn’t try to help the older man, according to Turney, but “vanished” instead.
There were no signs prohibiting climbing on the sculpture when the March 2012 incident happened, Wolff claims in Manhattan Supreme Court papers filed last week against SL Green Realty, which leases the property where the sculpture sits. Now, there is a warning notice.
The sculpture should be moved away from the sidewalk so pedestrians will be less at risk, Wolff says in court papers.
“It’s a sculpture notorious for people climbing on and climbing through it,” Turney said. But “there’s not a whole heck of a lot of space, it’s right at the property line. It could have easily been pushed back 10 feet.”
SL Green did not respond to messages seeking comment.