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Brooklyn Bridge jumper survives 135-foot fall – Metro US

Brooklyn Bridge jumper survives 135-foot fall

Brooklyn Bridge jumper survives 135-foot fall
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A man who jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge miraculously survived with nonlife-threatening injuries.

On Tuesday morning, the man, 31, jumped from the middle of the bridge but managed to survive the fall, officials said to the New York Daily News.

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The man climbed across the roadway from the middle of the bridge’s pedestrian walkway around 9:15 a.m. and plunged into the water below, the New York Post stated.

After falling 135 feet, the man was pulled out of the water by an NYPD boat and taken to a dock at Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Daily News added.

Officers in the boat saw the man’s fall before they arrived to pull him out of the harbor, the Post added.

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The man was moved to Lutheran Medical Center in stable condition, officials said in the Daily News article.