The woman who plunged to her death yesterday at LaGuardia Place and West 3rd Street was 50-year-old Patti Gregory. Her husband, Danny Gregory, wrote a book called Everyday Matters in 2003, after his wife lost the use of her legs in a subway accident. At the time, he wrote: "Two years before I started drawing, my wife was run over by a subway train. Sounds really terrible, I know. But, well, this book is about how art and New York City saved my life."
According to the Daily News, cops say she managed to vault herself off the 8th floor balcony, and they believe it was "no accident." And while she was still breathing when they got to her on a 2nd floor terrace, she died soon after at St. Vincent's hospital.
A friend of the family's told the paper that her husband isn't ready to call it a suicide, saying, "I don't know how she could get over the railing. She's handicapped. She's in a wheelchair."
