NEW YORK — The wife of a New York doorman is mourning his tragic and sudden death, just a week before the couple’s 37th wedding anniversary. <br /> <br />The New York Daily News reports that around 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Miguel Gonzalez was shovelling snow outside a building on the Upper East Side. Gonzalez has been standing near the top step of a short flight of stairs when he suddenly slipped. <br /> <br />The 59-year-old fell down the stairs and crashed head-first through a plate glass window beside the main door. <br /> <br />Sharp glass cut his face and left a gash in his jugular. Gonzales insisted to his horrified colleagues that he was OK, but blood began pouring from the gaping wound in his throat. <br /> <br />He was rushed to the hospital, but died a short while later. <br /> <br />Gonzales was a proud Puerto Rican and had been planning to retire back home in two years. His death is the first snow-related casualty reported after a winter blast hit the U.S. Northeast on Thursday.
