Girl plunges to her death while jumping across Manhattan rooftops with two friends

A Manhattan teenager, whose family owns a
popular Chelsea pizzeria, plummeted six stories to
her death when she slipped jumping across a
rooftop airshaft in Hell’s Kitchen Friday, police
and witnesses said.
Natalya Jimenez, 15, fell into an airshaft on the
roof of a 10th Ave. apartment building near W.
48th St. at around 4:30 p.m, witnesses said.
“It was a big thump,” said Leslie Rodriguez,
who lives in the back of the building on 699
10th Ave. “I thought someone had slammed
the door. I ran down and saw someone
lying there. She was in a crouch. It was
horrible.”
Jimenez had been hopping across rooftops with
two 14-year-old girlfriends before her fall police
said. The teen lived above her family’s Famous
Original Ray’s Pizza on Ninth Ave. and W. 22nd
St.
Police say she and two friends jumped at least
three rooftops before they turned to go back to a
building and she plunged to the street.
Multiple Famous Original Ray's Pizza locations
belong to the teen's grandfather, WPIX reported.
"She was the best little girl in New York,"
said her grandfather Rosalino Mangano
outside the pizzeria Friday night.
“She was the smartest girl," said Jimenez’s
shell-shocked mother Agatha Mangano.
Jimenez was rushed to St. Luke’s Hospital after
police found her body at the bottom of the four-
by-15-foot airshaft.
Her two friends wept as emergency responders
took Jimenez’s body out of the building in a black
bag, a witness said.
“The two other girls were crying. they
couldn’t even speak,” said Kelvin
Thompson.