News
Early Sunday morning, a man climbed onto the cables of the Williamsburg Bridge and began making his way to the top of the vertiginous span—possibly with the intent of jumping off. Luckily, NYPD Emergency Service Units were nearby, and after they got the call of an emotionally disturbed person
Bensonhurst
https://youtu.be/1f6vhdFOmFM The emotionally disturbed man who was rescued by police from a Bay Parkway ledge [/cops-pull-suicidal-man-on-bay-parkway-ledge-to-safety-giant-net/#.Vv1ZgBIrLnU] with a giant net last November is back up to his old antics. At 12:30am Thursday, the man
Police & Fire
(Photo: mikey k / flickr)Talk about unsafe sex! Cops arrested a half-naked man running through Sheepshead Bay Saturday after slashing and robbing a woman who had invited him to her apartment for a one-night stand, the Daily News reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/half-
Bensonhurst
A truck from the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit, a branch of the Special Operations Division. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)After an hour-long standoff Tuesday night, police safely removed a “disturbed individual” from his barricaded Gravesend home. The NYPD could not provide further information about why the man
11th ave
We broke the news on Friday about an emotionally disturbed person threatening to jump from the roof of a building on 60th Street and 11th Avenue [/emotionally-disturbed-person-dangled-from-electrical-lines-as-he-contemplated-jump-on-11th-avenue/] , and promised you an update when we heard back from
b1
Photo by Elle SpektorA violent straphanger caused the evacuation of a Brighton Beach-bound B1 bus on 86th Street yesterday afternoon, and police were called to the scene to respond. The incident occurred at approximately 7:00 p.m. Wednesday as the bus came to the intersection of 20th Avenue
emotionally disturbed person
Reader Alina T. sent in the above photo and filled us in on the incident, which occurred at around 9:00 p.m. Here’s what she says happened: > I was just on Sheepshead Bay Road and East 15th and there was a Russian guy – I believe he was
emotionally disturbed person
UPDATE: It appears it was not an emotionally disturbed person, but an elderly driver who was in a minor accident, losing his side mirror. The man pulled over and was trying to recover the mirror. Police took him off the road. Original post: We just received word that an emotionally
emotionally disturbed person
Emergency services, including firefighters and police emergency response units, flooded Nostrand Avenue between Avenue T and Avenue U today at 12:45 p.m. According to Gothamist Newsmap, they’re responding to a “Barricaded EDP” (emotionally disturbed person) call at 3302 Nostrand Avenue. Meanwhile other units were opening and testing