Are we to assume that you can jump off of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge but not the George Washington Bridge?<\/p>\n
First, a 19-year-old apparently survives a jump from the Verrazano<\/a>:<\/p>\n A Brooklyn teen told cops he survived a leap off the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge last night. At its highest point, the bridge is 237 feet above the water, but it’s not clear how far he fell.<\/p>\n He was taken to Lutheran Hospital in critical condition but was later upgraded to stable.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n This comes on the heels of the death of a man on Monday after diving headfirst from the GWB<\/a>:<\/p>\n A lover’s spat between two gay men driving over the George Washington Bridge ended in tragedy yesterday when the driver stopped the vehicle mid-span and dived headfirst into the Hudson River, police and witnesses said.<\/p>\n “It was terrible, just terrible \u00e2\u20ac\u201d something awful to see,” said Gus Guerra, who was in his boat under the bridge and got to the victim first. “He was shaking a bit and moving in the water when I pulled him out. His face was pretty bad and blood was coming out of his ears.”<\/p>\n The jumper, 45, was pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n The nightmarish drama began at 11:30 a.m., when the two men got into an argument as they headed toward New Jersey on the upper level.<\/p>\n Police said the driver pulled the car over by the bridge’s New York tower, climbed over the railing and took a 220-foot dive.<\/p>\n Guerra, a mechanic at a marina, said a cop told him the driver had flipped out during an argument with his lover.<\/p>\n “He landed head first. He looked pretty rough. There was no way he could have survived,” Guerra said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Visual comparison: Verrazano-Narrows Bridge<\/a> and the George Washington Bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are we to assume that you can jump off of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge but not the George Washington Bridge? First, a 19-year-old apparently survives a jump from the Verrazano: A Brooklyn teen told cops he survived a leap off the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge last night. Pavel Kononov, 19, was soaking wet when he flagged down an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-need_to_know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPavel Kononov, 19, was soaking wet when he flagged down an off-duty cop who was driving onto the Belt Parkway from the bridge at 7 p.m. Earlier, cops had responded to reports of a possible jumper, but nobody saw one.<\/p>\n