{"id":312096,"date":"2026-08-02T21:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312096\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:33:09","slug":"naked-nutjob-jumps-from-brooklyn-bridge-after-erecting-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312096\/","title":{"rendered":"Naked nutjob jumps from Brooklyn Bridge after erecting flags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unhinged, 44-year-old naked man jumped off the top of the Brooklyn Bridge Sunday afternoon in front of shocked onlookers \u2014 and miraculously survived, according to cops and wild video.<\/p>\n<p>The nutjob affixed multiple flags at the top of the bridge and \u201ctook off clothing\u201d after he scaled the north tower on the Manhattan side of the iconic bridge around 2:30 p.m., police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The naked man is seen atop the Brooklyn Bridge on Aug. 2, 2026.  X\/@m_alejandr07<\/p>\n<p>He can then be seen running aross the top of the tower.  X\/@m_alejandr07<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD\u2019s Emergency Services Unit tried to convince him to come down, but he leapt instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA guy jumped out of the top after getting naked,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/m_alejandr07\/status\/2083995366433677351\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">an X user wrote<\/a> while posting video of the disturbing jump.<\/p>\n<p>Quick-thinking Harbor Unit cops rescued the man from the East River.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD\u2019s Emergency Services Unit tried to convince the climber to come down, but he leapt off the historic span. X\/@m_alejandr07<\/p>\n<p>The man was rescued from the East River and taken to NYC Health+Hospitals Bellevue, where he was listed in stable condition. X\/@m_alejandr07<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to NYC Health+Hospitals Bellevue, where he was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>What was written on the flags wasn\u2019t immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unhinged, 44-year-old naked man jumped off the top of the Brooklyn Bridge Sunday afternoon in front of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,11198,100,99,8108,57,9,24,63,103,27689,58],"class_list":["post-312096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-bridge","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-east-river","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-rescues","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312096","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=312096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}