{"id":26791,"date":"2025-11-03T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26791\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:22:07","slug":"hang-glider-arrested-for-launching-off-verrazano-bridge-parachuting-into-brooklyn-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26791\/","title":{"rendered":"Hang glider arrested for launching off Verrazano Bridge, parachuting into Brooklyn park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A daredevil hang glided off the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and parachuted into a Brooklyn park \u2014 where he was quickly arrested for the stunt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/index.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Warren took flight from the bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island about 5 p.m. Sunday using a hang glider that caught the attention of numerous 911 callers, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Warren, 40, was charged with reckless endangerment after police caught up with him in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/parks\/calvert-vaux-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calvert Vaux Park<\/a> in Coney Island, where he landed with a parachute. He was given a desk appearance ticket to appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A daredevil hang glided off the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and parachuted into a Brooklyn park \u2014 where he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-26791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-city","12":"tag-county","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26791","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=26791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}