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30 Rock leap bid was third

The troubled man who threatened to jump from the Top of the Rock observation deck is a schizophrenic who had threatened to kill himself twice before — once in an eerily similar attempt from atop Las Vegas’ 1,149-foot Stratosphere Tower, sources said yesterday.

Jorge Ruiz, 23, went to the deck of the GE Building over Rockefeller Plaza, but never went through with his suicide attempt, his family told the NYPD.

The disturbed Las Vegas man also made an attempt in LA, though details weren’t available.

At about 3:50 p.m. Wednesday, he scaled a 6-foot barrier outside the crowded deck and spent an hour near the edge of the 70th-floor rooftop before cops pulled him to safety.

Ruiz was despondent because he didn’t have a job.

He remained in the psych ward at Bellevue yesterday.