A man who jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge miraculously survived with nonlife-threatening injuries.
On Tuesday morning, the man, 31, jumped from the middle of the bridge but managed to survive the fall, officials said to the New York Daily News. RELATED:Brooklyn Bridge climber gets community service The man climbed across the roadway from the middle of the bridge’s pedestrian walkway around 9:15 a.m. and plunged into the water below, the New York Post stated. After falling 135 feet, the man was pulled out of the water by an NYPD boat and taken to a dock at Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Daily News added.
Officers in the boat saw the man’s fall before they arrived to pull him out of the harbor, the Post added.
RELATED:PHOTOS: A new stretch of Brooklyn Bridge Park opens this weekend The man was moved to Lutheran Medical Center in stable condition, officials said in the Daily News article.
Brooklyn Bridge jumper survives 135-foot fall
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