A 29-year-old New Jersey woman has plunged about nine metres to her death off an escalator inside the World Trade Centre transit hub known as the Oculus.
Jenny Santos of Kearny was trying to retrieve a hat dropped by her twin sister while the two were on an escalator at about 5:30am when she reached too far over the railing and tumbled over the edge, a law enforcement official said on Saturday.
The striking $US3.9 billion transportation hub was designed by architect Santiago Calatrava and provides connections between New Jersey's PATH trains and New York City's subways. It opened about a year ago and is used daily by more than 300,000 commuters. Light beams in from the windows in the dizzying, soaring platform to the shopping mall below.
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