BROOKLYN BRIDGE — An emotional disturbed man threatening suicide from the top of the Brooklyn Bridge snarled traffic on both sides of the East River for about an hour and a half Saturday before he was rescued by police.
Police stopped traffic going both ways on the bridge just before 2 p.m. which caused major gridlock on the FDR on the Manhattan side of the river and on the Brooklyn/Queens Expressway on the Brooklyn side.
The 52-year-old unidentified man walked out to the edge of the Manhattan side tower 276 feet over the wate until police could talk him off the ledge around 3:30 p.m.