Fourth suicide at the Vessel leads to calls for higher barriers
People walk past the Vessel at Hudson Yards in New York on Thursday, July 29, 2021, hours after a 14-year-old boy died by suicide there. The death, which was the fourth suicide at the tourist attraction in a year and a half, angered community members who have repeatedly called on developers to build higher barriers on the walkways and raised questions about the effectiveness of the structures suicide-prevention methods. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Ashley Wong and Michael Gold
NEW YORK
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Just two months after the Vessel, a honeycomb-like spiral of staircases in Hudson Yards, reopened with design changes meant to lower the risk of suicides, a 14-year-old boy died by suicide there Thursday afternoon, the police said.