A 44-year-old man was arrested after climbing to the top of New York City\u2019s historic Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday, displaying flags and eventually plunging into the water, police said. <\/p>\n
Galymzhan Abaildayev is facing charges of reckless endangerment, graffiti, public lewdness, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct, the New York Police Department said in a statement to NBC News on Monday. It\u2019s unclear whether he has retained an attorney. <\/p>\n
Police were called to the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday afternoon after reports that a man was scaling the 143-year-old bridge with a backpack. Abaildayev allegedly stripped down after reaching the top of the bridge\u2019s north tower. <\/p>\n
He then jumped from the top of the bridge\u2019s tower into the East River, where police said he was rescued by the department\u2019s harbor unit. He was then taken to a city hospital in stable condition. <\/p>\n
The Brooklyn Bridge has a clearance of 135 feet from the water at its center, according to New York City\u2019s Department of Transportation<\/a>. The city does not detail the exact height of the towers, but a company that worked on restoration of the bridge<\/a> noted that the towers are 272-feet tall. <\/p>\n Abaildayev had a backpack and two flags with him, according to police. The police department did not provide additional information as to what was on the flags. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 44-year-old man was arrested after climbing to the top of New York City\u2019s historic Brooklyn Bridge on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-801484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}