{"id":977976,"date":"2026-08-03T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/977976\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:12:15","slug":"man-who-jumped-naked-from-the-brooklyn-bridge-hit-with-criminal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/977976\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who jumped naked from the Brooklyn Bridge hit with criminal charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

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File \u2014 NYPD drivers under the Brooklyn Bridge.<\/p>\n

Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n

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A mentally ill man who leaped from the Brooklyn Bridge<\/a> Sunday afternoon but was amazingly unharmed has been charged with several crimes, police sources said.<\/p>\n

According to law enforcement sources, police received a 911 call reporting a man climbing the bridge at around 2:30 p.m. When members of the NYPD<\/a>\u2019s Emergency Response Unit arrived, they observed a 44-year-old man climbing the north tower of the bridge. Authorities immediately closed down pedestrian traffic.<\/p>\n

However, before they could make contact with him, cops said he removed his robe and jumped fully naked into the East River below.\n<\/p>\n

The NYPD harbor unit was able to rescue him and pull him to safety. He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.\n<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, police discovered a blanket and a robe covered in incoherent writing left where he took the plunge.\n<\/p>\n

He has since been identified as Galymzhan Abaildayev and charged with reckless endangerment, graffiti, public lewdness, criminal trespass, and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File \u2014 NYPD drivers under the Brooklyn Bridge. Photo by Dean Moses A mentally ill man…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":977977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,29877,4219,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,7207,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-977976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-brooklyn-bridge","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977976","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=977976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/977977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}