{"id":337969,"date":"2026-09-04T12:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337969\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:26:21","slug":"nypd-closes-down-brooklyn-bridge-after-police-involved-shooting-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337969\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD closes down Brooklyn Bridge after police involved shooting: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn-bound side of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/07\/14\/hero-nypd-cop-recounts-high-wire-rescue-of-woman-threatening-to-jump-from-brooklyn-bridge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Bridge<\/a> was temporarily closed to traffic early Friday after at least one shot was fired as NYPD officers clashed with a man armed with a knife climbing the iconic bridge\u2019s cables, police officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at about 4:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear if the man police shot at was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD closed the Brooklyn-bound side of the iconic bridge as they investigated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to ongoing police activity, avoid the vicinity of the Brooklyn-bound Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan,\u201d the NYPD said on X. \u201cExpect delays and use alternate routes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Early-morning commuters saw a massive amount of police activity on the bridge following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Brooklyn bound lanes closed on the Brooklyn bridge. Helicopters and police boats since 3am for a \u201cpolice operation\u201d?\u201d X user Gia wrote. \u201cNo one knows what\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn-bound side of the Brooklyn Bridge was temporarily closed to traffic early Friday after at least one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,11198,100,99,9,24,63,103],"class_list":["post-337969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-bridge","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337969","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=337969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}