Cops rescue would-be jumper on Verrazano Bridge
A distraught man threatening to jump to his death from the upper deck of the Verrazano Bridge was rescued and brought to safety by police, who talked to him for four-and-a-half hours during a tense standoff that began in the early afternoon and stretched into rush hour Monday evening, authorities said.
Two Asian-American cops — P.O. Yi Huang of the NYPD and officer Eddie Fung of the MTA’s Bridges and Tunnels police force — communicated with the Chinese-speaking man and gained his trust, authorities said.
Huang’s family hailed from the same village in China in which the distraught man grew up, according to the New York Daily News.