{"id":922622,"date":"2026-07-09T06:52:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/922622\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:52:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:52:34","slug":"daredevil-strolls-across-brooklyn-bridge-suspension-cables-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/922622\/","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil strolls across Brooklyn Bridge suspension cables: video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A daredevil was spotted strolling across the suspension cables of the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday evening \u2014 prompting a massive rescue mission and shuttering part of the historic span to traffic during rush hour.<\/p>\n<p>Terrifying video obtained by The Post captured a man walking across the steel cables from a towering pillar on the bridge just before 7:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39929933\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/climber-bk-bridge-s-walking-133812594.jpg\" alt=\"Terrifying video obtained by The Post captured a man walking across the Brooklyn Bridge's steel cables from a towering pillar Wednesday night.\" class=\"wp-image-39929933\"  \/>Terrifying video obtained by The Post captured a man walking across the Brooklyn Bridge\u2019s steel cables from a towering pillar Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.41436464;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39930727\" width=\"834\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/070826bridge2wcl-mid-span-brooklyn-bridge-133817273.jpg\" alt=\"The daredevil was taken into police custody on Wednesday night.\" class=\"wp-image-39930727\"  \/>The daredevil was taken into police custody on Wednesday night. William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified climber was taken into custody late Wednesday night by the NYPD\u2019s Emergency Service Unit, hours after authorities established dialogue with the man.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eastbound lanes of the bridge heading toward Brooklyn were reopened by around 10 p.m. on Wednesday after being closed due to the stunt, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, a man <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/07\/tense-video-shows-man-scaling-cables-of-brooklyn-bridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">scaled the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge, <\/a>snarling morning rush-hour traffic for about 90 minutes. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A daredevil was spotted strolling across the suspension cables of the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday evening \u2014 prompting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":922623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,29877,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,57234,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-922622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-brooklyn-bridge","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-rescues","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116888703520231847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}