New Jersey Woman Takes Fatal Plunge From Verrazano Bridge

A 45-year-old woman from New Jersey jumped to her death from the Verrazano Narrows Bridge on Friday morning.

Responding to a report of an abandoned vehicle on the upper level of the bridge, police from the 68th Precinct arrived, discovering the driver laying on the rocks below, according to the Home Reporter.

The MTA announced that two of the Verrazano’s Staten Island lanes were closed by 10:47 a.m., with one reopening an hour later and all lanes reopening by 12:47 p.m.

SLive.com reports that the Verrazano “has been the scene of at least eight suicides and six more attempts since December 2011, according to Advance records.” They add that the “suicides have come in clusters — two in a one-month stretch from December 2011 to Jan 2012, three more between May 27 and June 28 in 2012, and two between March 30 and April 14 of last year.”

In November, Bensonhurst Bean shared dramatic footage of police rescuing a suicidal man. We previously reported on plunges or suicide attempts in September, June and April.

— Vanessa Ogle