{"id":291448,"date":"2026-07-09T15:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291448\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:42:07","slug":"distressed-woman-saved-by-nypd-officers-after-climbing-brooklyn-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291448\/","title":{"rendered":"Distressed Woman Saved By NYPD Officers After Climbing Brooklyn Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          NYPD<br \/>\n                          Officers Rescue Troubled Woman Who Scaled Brooklyn Bridge<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              July 9, 2026<br \/>\n                            6:51 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f8277f4176a44a6aa2ecdc4eee462810_md.png\" alt=\"woman on bb kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A distressed woman scaled the world-famous Brooklyn Bridge in NYC &#8230; but she didn&#8217;t plunge into the East River &#8230;her life was saved thanks to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD&#8217;s Emergency Service Unit officers quickly responded to multiple 911 calls and climbed up the bridge to talk with the troubled woman.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260709_d5a73e6774234bd5a5894c1c0a973b5e\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:fb1bf19f-13b5-4290-aec6-409fc943757d\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d5a73e6774234bd5a5894c1c0a973b5e_md.png\" alt=\"bridge climb sub\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Video shows NYPD officers climbing up the bridge to save the woman with the flashing lights of patrol cars parked nearby. There&#8217;s also footage of paramedics loading the woman into an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8230; the woman was not arrested or charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD Officers Rescue Troubled Woman Who Scaled Brooklyn Bridge Published July 9, 2026 6:51 AM PDT Play video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-291448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291448","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=291448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}