Police Continue Search for Missing Office Worker
Matt Dunning / Tribeca Trib
Police gather in the lobby of 2 Rector Street, where a 46-year-old Eridania Rodriguez was reported missing early Tuesday morning.
New York City police are still looking for a Washington Heights woman they say mysteriously disappeared from her job in Lower Manhattan early Tuesday evening.
Police said Eridania Rodriguez was last seen around 7 p.m., July 7, on the eighth floor of 2 Rector Street, where she works as a custodian. Police said cameras in the lobby of the building show Rodriguez, 46, arriving to work shortly after 5 p.m., but do not show her leaving the building at any time afterward.
As of 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday Rodriguez had yet to be found. A police source said detectives had no indication that Rodriguez had been harmed or was in danger, but had not completed their investigation.
Police spent most of the morning searching the 26-story office building for signs of Rodriguez. Hundreds of employees were barred from entering their offices until early afternoon. Some of Rodriguez’s possessions were found on her desk, a police source said.
By 1 p.m., teams of police were expanding their search from the Financial District to include the South Street Seaport area, Battery Park and Battery Park City.
As of Wednesday evening police had yet to release a photo or description of Rodriguez.
Police said Rodriguez’s family, who last saw her when she left her home in Washington Heights, tried several times to contact her before calling the police around 1:14 a.m.
It was not immediately known whether Rodriguez was employed by Stellar Management, managers of the building, or a private company on the eighth floor. Adam Roman, a vice president at Stellar Management, which owns the building, could not be reached for comment.
Police had initially indicated that Rodriguez lived in Brooklyn, but later determined her address to be in Washington Heights, Manhattan.










By Matt Dunning
UPDATED Jul. 10