An elderly architect whose work is featured at the Museum of Modern Art died today - two weeks after he was brutally beaten in an upper West Side apartment building, police sources and a friend said.
Gerald Abramovitz, 82, was attacked after he rang the buzzer to his friend's W. 89th St. apartment near Central Park West about 5:20 p.m. on May 25, the friend said.
"I found him on the floor of the vestibule bleeding," said Gene Koretz, 80. "His shirt was soaked in blood."
The respected architect - who designed a cantilever desk lamp that is part of MoMA's permanent collection - was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital, but later released.
Koretz said his longtime friend became weak and dizzy a couple of days later and returned to the hospital, where a CT scan revealed a brain hemorrhage.
The South American artist died at the hospital about 4 a.m.
Police sources said the case may be investigated as a homicide, depending on what the city's medical examiner determines as the cause of death. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday.
Koretz said he is convinced Abramovitz died as a result of his injuries. He said he and other friends have put together a $3,000 reward to add to the $2,000 offered by theNYPD's Crime Stoppers unit for information leading to the arrest of the attacker, who is still at large.
"Everybody's apprehensive now," said Koretz. "There's a predator out there. He took away a good friend. We're going to miss him terribly."
Police ask anyone with information to call the Crime Stoppers hotline, (800) 577-TIPS.
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