{"id":27422,"date":"2025-11-03T21:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/27422\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T21:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:36:05","slug":"brooklyn-man-parachuted-off-verrazzano-narrows-bridge-after-nyc-marathon-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/27422\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn man parachuted off Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge after NYC Marathon, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"5kra7\">A Brooklyn daredevil parachuted off the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and into a nearby park Sunday evening, right as the span reopened to traffic after it was closed for the <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/more-than-55000-runners-take-to-the-streets-for-the-nyc-marathon\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New York City Marathon<\/a>, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"de7li\">Jonathan Warren, 40, was nabbed by officers who responded to 911 calls of an \u201cunlicensed aircraft\u201d around 4:56 p.m., said an NYPD spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"blhrb\">Cops from the department\u2019s specialized Emergency Service Unit arrested Warren at Calvert Vaux Park in Bath Beach, about two miles from the bridge.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"bvl4l\">Police charged Warren, who lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, with reckless endangerment and issued him a desk appearance ticket.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"8i4l7\">The bridge is the longest in the city, and is typically off-limits to pedestrians and bicyclists.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"d06m0\">\u200b\u200bThe MTA has made big investments to prevent people from leaping off the Verrazzano in recent years following a spate of suicides from the span. The agency spent around $32 million to install safety fencing along its edges in 2021.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"atv6o\">Ramsey Khalifeh contributed reporting to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn daredevil parachuted off the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and into a nearby park Sunday evening, right as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-27422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27422","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=27422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}