The man, 35, was killed immediately by the fall; the boy was taken a block away to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in critical condition, where he died shortly after.
Though many details remained under investigation, detectives began piecing together a picture of the events leading up to the deaths. A police spokesman would not elaborate on why investigators believed the man killed the boy and himself.
The man, identified by the police as Dmitriy Kanarikov, had picked up his son, Kirill, from his wife at 10 a.m. on Sunday from the 17th Precinct station house, the spokesman said. The wife was set to pick him up at 1 p.m. at the station, a neutral location chosen by the couple, said John J. McCarthy, the Police Department's chief spokesman. They did not show up.
Instead, surveillance video viewed by detectives showed father and son walking into the building at 124 West 60th Street. Then witnesses described to the police seeing a body falling past their apartments at about noon.
The bodies of the father and son were found on separate rooftops below the tower.
It was not clear what drew the man, who lived in Brooklyn, to the building, though the police believed he had a friend who may have lived there. Property records showed Mr. Kanarikov had purchased a home in Mill Basin, Brooklyn, along with his wife, Svetlana Kanarikov, in January.
The deaths recalled the suicide in March of a 44-year-old woman, who left a note behind in her eighth-floor apartment before jumping to her death while carrying her infant son; the 10-month-old survived.
Throughout the afternoon on Sunday, officers and detectives moved around the tiered tower, scouring the rooftop deck where residents sunbathe in the summer and passing through apartments in the middle of the building.
An officer on the roof described it as a crime scene but did not elaborate.
Residents said the roof was not locked, meaning anyone who knew the way there could gain access. Around the edge was a low wall.
"When you're up on that roof, it's an incredible panorama," said one resident, Jim Millman, 62. "My wife and I have said, it is so — not to say dangerous — but open."
Mr. Kanarikov and his wife had just bought their home on East 57th Place in Mill Basin, and they spent months renovating the inside of the two-story tan stucco house, a place with a neat brick staircase and large bay window that let in generous amounts of light.
When they finally moved in, during the summer, their son, a boy with dark blond hair, would ride a small bike in the neighborhood. Other children would join.
Gail Glazer and her husband, Felix, both 33, who live next door and have two boys about the same age as Kirill, watched them move in.
"We were looking forward to them playing together," Ms. Glazer said, "but we never really got to know them."
The family was quiet, neighbors said, even though they spoke Russian, as many on their street did. Mr. Kanarikov was sometimes spotted watering the yard or parking his silver Lexus. He favored high-end athletic suits, said another neighbor, Dayna Driscoll, 23.
The houses on East 57th Place are clustered close together, but noises were seldom heard from the home. Mr. Glazer said he stopped seeing Mr. Kanarikov's wife about a month ago. Manoj Notani, 36, who was leaving the high-rise building with his infant daughter, expressed shock at the deaths.
The windows in the apartments had brackets that prevented residents from opening them more than several inches, he said, though they could be removed.
"It's hard to believe when it happens in your own building," he said.
Ashley Southall and Julie Turkewitz contributed reporting.
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