Police Investigating Potential Verrazano Bridge Suicide

A man allegedly plunged to his death off the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge early Friday morning in what the police suspect is a suicide, according to a report by SI Live.

Around 12:30 a.m. on Friday, witnesses claimed to have seen somebody jump off the bridge’s lower level but the NYPD still hasn’t recovered the body. On the bridge, the police found an abandoned Cadillac Escalade with an I.D. belonging to 58-year-old Angelo Biondo, an owner of a Park Slope dog training business.

Biondo’s landlord had nothing but kind words for the missing man.

Biondo’s landlord, who didn’t give her name, said he had moved into the apartment about three years ago. He lived there with his 2-year-old bulldog, Marble, she said.

“He loves her so much, so much,” she said of the dog, noting that he recently told a childhood friend, ‘If anything happened to me, you have to take care of her.'”

“I think he was planning this.”

The landlord said Biondo, who was divorced, ran a dog training business.

“He was so kind. He was normal,” she said.

Since 2011, the Verrazano has been the site of five suicides and five suicide attempts.