{"id":26841,"date":"2025-11-03T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26841\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:02:10","slug":"hang-glider-arrested-for-launching-off-verrazano-bridge-parachuting-into-brooklyn-park-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26841\/","title":{"rendered":"Hang glider arrested for launching off Verrazano Bridge, parachuting into Brooklyn park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">police<\/a> said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:Calvert Vaux Park;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to cops.<\/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":26516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,16947,16945,16946,9,24,63,1095,134,16110],"class_list":{"0":"post-26841","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-calvert-vaux-park","12":"tag-hang-glider","13":"tag-jonathan-warren","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-reckless-endangerment","18":"tag-staten-island","19":"tag-verrazzano-narrows-bridge"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841","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=26841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}