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Wall Street trader falls to death from Upper East Side apartment

A Wall Street trader and father of three died in a freak fall from his fifth-floor Upper East Side apartment, authorities said Monday.

Keith Mastronardi, 31, was discovered dead about 10:30 p.m. Sunday in the courtyard behind his building on E.74th St. between First and Second Aves., police said.

Sources said Mastronardi had been drinking and had been trying to open a window to let smoke out of the apartment when he fell.

Investigators said his death appears to be an accident.

Mastronardi dealt in exotic derivatives for the firm Vyapar Capital Market Partners.

He hailed from Seaford, L.I., and attended the University of Chicago.

A relative who answered the phone at the family home, said Mastronardi had two young sons and an infant daughter, but declined to comment further.

An attendant at a neighboring parking lot said he was startled by the sound of Mastronardi hitting the ground and went running for cover.

"I heard a loud bang from the back," Joe Gomez said. "It sounded like a bomb - very hard. I never heard something like that before."

Gomez said Mastronardi and his children were a fixture in the neighborhood.

"I'd see him passing by with the kids all the time and say hi," Gomez said. "He had three kids."
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  • pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,641 ✭✭✭
    Mastronardi dealt in exotic derivatives for the firm Vyapar Capital Market Partners.

    Accident? Derivatives about to unwind?
  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,793 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He was working with the SEC, spilling the beans. image

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • And what kind of smoke was he letting out of the window when he opened it?
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sometimes an accident is just an accident.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,641 ✭✭✭
    Must of been a big window.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,118 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Sometimes an accident is just an accident. >>



    Quite true.
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  • Unlike SEC Laws, these folks can not grasp that the Law of Gravity has "no wiggle room or caveats" even for them.
  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    Interesting story, very tragic to his family, but pretty much irrelevant to this forum.
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If it was an off duty fireman that fell out of said window there would have been 100 posts by now.

    If it was an off duty union fireman that fell out of the window and landed on a non union pedestrian-------250 posts easy.

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  • << <i>If it was an off duty fireman that fell out of said window there would have been 100 posts by now.

    If it was an off duty union fireman that fell out of the window and landed on a non union pedestrian-------250 posts easy.

    MJ >>

    LOL!
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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Interesting story, very tragic to his family, but pretty much irrelevant to this forum. >>




    Yup
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  • I wonder how many children he had...
  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    3...............image
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  • streeterstreeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He died at 10:30PM on a Sunday night and Joe Gomez, AKA... the parking lot attendant.... was still on duty?

    What kind of neighborhood has parking lot attendants at 10:30PM on a Sunday night?

    He should've asked himself that question and moved to the country. One story fall. Sore back. Two advil in the morning.
    Have a nice day
  • ebaytraderebaytrader Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭



    << <i>A Wall Street trader and father of three died in a freak fall from his fifth-floor Upper East Side apartment, authorities said Monday. >>




    Hit and runs are so passé.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,118 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>He died at 10:30PM on a Sunday night and Joe Gomez, AKA... the parking lot attendant.... was still on duty?

    What kind of neighborhood has parking lot attendants at 10:30PM on a Sunday night?

    He should've asked himself that question and moved to the country. One story fall. Sore back. Two advil in the morning. >>



    This is Manhattan, not Podunk.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,113 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>He died at 10:30PM on a Sunday night and Joe Gomez, AKA... the parking lot attendant.... was still on duty?

    What kind of neighborhood has parking lot attendants at 10:30PM on a Sunday night?

    He should've asked himself that question and moved to the country. One story fall. Sore back. Two advil in the morning. >>



    This is Manhattan, not Podunk. >>



    Yup. There are probably several bars and restaurants in the area.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • streeterstreeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SIGH,

    I see that the wit of my post has been missed. Partial explanation,

    a) you don't raise your children in neighborhoods were there are parking lot attendants working at 10:30PM on Sunday night. You get listen to cars and people from the lot in your apt. when your children should be sleeping.
    b) you don't drink around your children
    c) You don't SMOKE enough to have to open your windows to be able to breath
    d) If you lived in the burbs and had to open a window to breath...because you are an incompetent father...who seems to have developed the habit of drinking by himself..with his children sleeping....and fell out....it's a five foot fall to the flower bed. An ancillary benefit to living in the burbs if you can't stand on your own two ft.



    SIGH
    Have a nice day
  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    What's wrong with "Podunk"?
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,118 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What's wrong with "Podunk"? >>



    I used to live in Podunk, though the Post Office insisted on calling it Sidney, Ohio.

    The coffee shop at the Holiday Inn was the best restaurant in town, until McDonalds opened an outlet across the street.

    One day the tide went out and never came back, and the town is 800 miles from the ocean!!!!

    image
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  • streeterstreeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Capt.,

    I visited Sidney once. Pleasant.

    A couple of years ago. Called a company there, chatted with a nice woman who invited me to come to their archives. I was able to find my first ad in their magazine that I placed when I was in the second grade for trading 1909-s through 1913-s Lincolns(out of change and cash registers) for silver dollars. Coin World 1961. That's just about 50 years since my first ad came out.

    Ads worked, btw. Morgan collection got stolen btw.
    Have a nice day
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