{"id":226767,"date":"2026-05-11T02:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226767\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T02:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:06:38","slug":"nail-biting-footage-shows-nypd-officers-rescue-sobbing-woman-dangling-off-ledge-of-skyscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226767\/","title":{"rendered":"Nail-biting footage shows NYPD officers’ rescue sobbing woman dangling off ledge of skyscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nail-biting body cam footage shows NYPD officers rescue a suicidal woman dangling off the ledge<\/a> of a Brooklyn high-rise \u2014 as they swing her to safety over the building\u2019s roof.<\/p>\n

Officers rushed to the scene after responding to a 911 call for a woman in distress around 1:30 p.m. last Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NYPD officers worked together to talk a suicidal woman off a ledge \u2014 then swing her back to the roof to safety, body cam footage shows. NYPD<\/p>\n

Officers rushed to a Brooklyn high rise after responding to a 911 call for a woman in distress around 1:30 p.m. last Thursday. NYPD<\/p>\n

Cops quickly made their way to the roof of the Brooklyn high rise, where they found a sobbing woman sitting dangerously close to the edge of the towering skyscraper, officials said.<\/p>\n

The footage shows the officers on the scene snap into action, with one with introducing himself and pleading with the woman not to jump.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe care about you. We don\u2019t want to see you hurt yourself, OK?\u201d one officer tells the woman before slowly moving toward her and asking if he can hold her hand, footage shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officers from the Emergency Services Unit arrive not too long after. They set up a safety hitch, and then three climb over to the ledge that the woman is on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can sit here for 10 minutes. We can sit here for a half hour. I just want to make sure that you\u2019re safe,\u201d one of the officers calmly tells the woman \u2013 while he\u2019s more than 100 feet above the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can sit here for ten minutes. We can sit here for a half hour. I just want to make sure that you\u2019re safe,\u201d one of the dauntless officers calmly tells the woman \u2013 while he\u2019s over a hundred feet from the ground.\u00a0 NYPD<\/p>\n

The hero cop then shimmies down the ledge and grabs the woman\u2019s hand. When she tells him she\u2019s not ready to move yet, the two sit there together.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLook where we\u2019re at. We have the best view of the city,\u201d the officer cracks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Soon after, the woman cooperates and the whole crew of cops work together and bring the woman off the ledge and back to the safety of the roof.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nail-biting body cam footage shows NYPD officers rescue a suicidal woman dangling off the ledge of a Brooklyn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,57,9,24,63,103,25966,8416,58],"class_list":["post-226767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police-body-cameras","tag-skyscrapers","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}