The family of a CUNY law student who has been missing for weeks is asking the general public for clues about his disappearance.
Jordan Taylor, 29, has been missing since Jan. 6, his brother Alton Taylor, mentioned. On Sunday, Alton Taylor organized a gaggle of a few dozen associates and volunteers to stroll within the areas the place his brother was final seen.
They walked from close to the Port Authority Bus Terminal to Battery Park Metropolis, handing out flyers and searching for anybody who might need seen him earlier than he disappeared.
“We hope that we find him and in one piece and that we’ll be able to return to some sense of normalcy when that happens,” Alton Taylor mentioned.
In accordance with Alton Taylor, the final time he noticed his brother was about 5:30 a.m. on Jan. 6, when Alton Taylor left their shared condominium in Queens for work. The family then tracked Jordan Taylor’s cellphone, and canvassed native companies for video footage, and realized that he had gone to the Hustle Barbershop between 4 and 5 p.m. that afternoon.
Rafael Padilla, who works on the barbershop, advised Gothamist that whereas he did are available in for a haircut, he left all of a sudden, earlier than Padilla may end.
Alton Taylor mentioned subsequent, telephone data confirmed his brother across the Port Authority Bus Terminal between 9 p.m. and midnight.
Alton Taylor mentioned his brother later walked previous the close by QNYC nightclub. Jordan Taylor’s telephone was found close to the membership at round 1:30 a.m., Alton Taylor mentioned. That truth initially drew particular consideration to the case, as a result of one of two males who died beneath suspicious circumstances final summer time was final seen on the similar membership. Nonetheless, Alton Taylor mentioned there isn’t any proof that his brother ever went contained in the membership.
Detectives from the NYPD Missing Individuals Unit lately despatched Taylor’s family footage of Jordan Taylor strolling previous Goldman Sachs in Battery Park at about 2:30 a.m. Jan. 7.
NYPD confirmed the small print of Taylor’s disappearance, however didn’t reply to requests for updates Monday.
Jordan Taylor’s pockets was found in that space round 9:30 a.m., with each money and bank cards nonetheless inside, Alton Taylor mentioned.
That footage of Taylor close to Goldman Sachs was encouraging to his associates.
“It makes me believe that he’s alive and out there,” mentioned Jesse Ginsberg, Jordan’s former school roommate. “It’s been a horrendous few weeks, and for a while I wasn’t sure about that.”
Alton Taylor mentioned that, earlier than disappearing, Jordan was burdened about upcoming exams, however in any other case behaving usually.
A local of Nyack, New York, Jordan is thought for his work as an area social justice activist. His associates and LinkedIn web page say that he was a member of the Hudson Valley Chapter of Black Lives Matter, organized for the Antonio Delgado for Congress marketing campaign within the 2018 midterm elections, and later labored as a discipline organizer for the Working Households Social gathering in 2022.
Anybody with information about Jordan Taylor is inspired to name the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).