A young Long Island woman drove a Porsche SUV to the Throgs Neck Bridge, walked to the middle of the span and leaped to her death into the frigid waters below, authorities said Friday.
“I just saw someone jumping off the Throgs Neck Bridge right in front of my eyes, God bless that poor soul,” tweeted @agalvarado360.
Witnesses said Esther Ha, 22, of Roslyn Heights in Nassau County, showed no hesitation when she made the plunge about 7:45 a.m., crippling rush-hour traffic.
“She was very determined. She was walking very briskly,” a source said.
Ha jumped before bridge and tunnel officers could get to her, an MTA spokesman said.
The tragic victim was fished out of the water — where the East River meets Long Island Sound — by harbor cops who were investigating the discovery of body parts believed to belong to missing autistic teen Avonte Oquendo, authorities said.
Ha survived the initial 360-foot plunge, but was later pronounced dead at Jacobi Medical Center in The Bronx.
The abandoned Porsche Cayenne was found parked near the Throgs Neck Bridge exit on the Cross Island Parkway, almost a mile from where Ha jumped, sources said.
According to Ha’s Facebook page, she graduated Roslyn HS and studied at Boston College with an interest in business.
Grieving family members would not comment at the victim’s residence, a modest, two-story home.
A few hours after Ha’s suicide, bridge and tunnel cops found an abandoned car on the upper level of the Staten Island-bound Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and spotted a body below.
The unidentified 45-year-old female victim landed on the rocky shore under the bridge on the Brooklyn side, cops said.
An NYPD Harbor Patrol boat was called to remove the victim’s body, which was found at 10:50 a.m.
There apparently were no witnesses, authorities said.
Ludmila Nazarov, 63, of Brighton Beach, works nearby and takes pictures of the Verrazano almost every day as a hobby.
“It’s a horrible feeling. I get scared,” Nazarov said.
Additional reporting by Daniel Prendergast and Larry Celona