NYPD
Officers Rescue Troubled Woman Who Scaled Brooklyn Bridge
Published
July 9, 2026
6:51 AM PDT
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A distressed woman scaled the world-famous Brooklyn Bridge in NYC … but she didn’t plunge into the East River …her life was saved thanks to the NYPD.
The death-defying incident went down Wednesday night on the Brooklyn-bound side of the bridge, where the woman in her 30s was sitting on a support suspension beam near eyewitnesses.
The NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit officers quickly responded to multiple 911 calls and climbed up the bridge to talk with the troubled woman.
After the cops chatted with her for a while, the woman agreed to go to a local hospital for evaluation. The bridge was closed on the Brooklyn-bound side for about one hour during the incident.
Video shows NYPD officers climbing up the bridge to save the woman with the flashing lights of patrol cars parked nearby. There’s also footage of paramedics loading the woman into an ambulance.
In addition, an outlet published a photo showing officers escorting the woman with her hands cuffed behind her after she was brought down to safety. A police spokesperson tells TMZ … the woman was not arrested or charged.