Officers from the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit pulled a 41-year-old woman to safety after she climbed onto a corner sun deck and sat on a ledge about 30 stories above the sidewalk at a Downtown Brooklyn high-rise on Thursday. Body-worn camera footage later captured the tense moments as officers tethered themselves, cleared a plexiglass partition and reached the woman, who had one leg over the edge and no shoes. They spoke calmly to her, offered her a phone and carried her down to safety before taking her to a hospital for observation. The dramatic scene, recorded on video, has since spread online.
As shown in the footage and reported by New York Daily News, uniformed officers first grabbed the woman’s hand and tried to keep her from going over, with one officer pleading, “don’t do it, please. don’t do it, ma’am.” The video sequence shows officers calling for the department’s specialized unit while working to keep her engaged in conversation until that team arrived.
Where It Happened
Avalon Willoughby Square, the rental tower at 214 Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn, is the building where the incident unfolded. The property’s official listing describes high-floor rooftop amenities, and neighborhood listings identify the structure as a 57–58-story tower, per Avalon Communities.
How Officers Pulled Her to Safety
Members of the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit tethered themselves and vaulted the plexiglass partition to reach the woman on the narrow sun deck, according to New York Daily News. An ESU officer offered the woman a phone so she could call her mother, and at one point she told officers to “tell my mom and dad that I love them,” the outlet reports. After officers hoisted her back over the ledge, she was taken to an area hospital for observation…