A man who jumped to his death from a Manhattan apartment window last week was well-known NYC art critic Charlie Finch, police sources confirmed Sunday.
Finch, 68, fell from his fifth-floor window at a pre-war co-op building on East 12th Street near Second Avenue in the East Village around 11:45 p.m. Wednesday, the sources said.
At the time, police said they believed the man was terminally ill.
Finch, who was known as a cranky critic, co-authored the book “Most Art Sucks.”
Walter Robinson — a well-regarded artist/critic who was also Finch’s longtime friend and editor — posted on Instagram that Finch died by “defenestration” and mentions his East 12th Street apartment.
ArtNews.com posted an obituary for Finch.
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