NJ Radio: Another Person Jumps From WWZY Tower

Location of WWZY FM Tower in Long Branch, NJ

A person jumped from a 400-foot radio tower in the city’s downtown, marking the second person to leap from the structure this year, police said.

The WWZY 107.1 FM radio tower is located off of Memorial Parkway between Broadway and Belmont Avenue, near downtown Long Branch, NJ.

An eyewitness said he saw a man climb midway up the red and white radio tower without a harness and jump off.

"I saw him sitting up there and then I saw him just take a step off the side of the tower," he said. "And then he just tumbled."

Another witness said the man jumped at around 3 p.m. and was not on the tower for very long.

“He didn’t waste any time,” said the second witness, who said the man hit one of the vacant buildings below after he jumped. "Sadly, it didn't look it was an accident."

A third witness said it appeared to him that the man fell when he tried to climb higher up the tower on a diagonal beam.

In April, a 60-year-old Elizabeth resident jumped to his death from the top of the tower and fell through the roof of a vacant commercial building on his way down, landing inside of the building.