{"id":352048,"date":"2026-09-21T01:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T01:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352048\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T01:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T01:09:06","slug":"cops-close-brooklyn-bridge-after-prank-call-of-person-in-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352048\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops close Brooklyn Bridge after prank call of person in water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn Bridge was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2101783198661288032?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">closed off<\/a> on Sunday as police and firefighters responded to a water rescue that turned out to be a false alarm made by a brazen prank caller.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian walkway was evacuated when police received a call around 4:38 p.m. from someone they believe was an emotionally disturbed person who reported a gunman was about to jump in the water from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/infrastructure\/brooklyn-bridge.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bridge,<\/a> according to police sources.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD Harbor responded to the call and was looking for someone who jumped in the water. There was also a report made of a suspicious package that turned out to be a Food Bazaar bag, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>FDNY said they had no patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Bridge was closed off on Sunday as police and firefighters responded to a water rescue that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,131406,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-352048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-bridge-closes-prank-call","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\/352048","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=352048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}