A teenager jumped from the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge and miraculously survived on Thursday afternoon, police said.
An 18-year-old jumped from the Queens side of the bridge, which is approximately 130 feet high, around 1:30 p.m. and landed in the East River, police said.
The victim was removed from the water near 59th Street in Manhattan with the help of a passing city ferry, which took him to Roosevelt Island to be picked up by EMS.
“You see this bridge right here? Someone just tried to jump off it. Actually, not try. He jumped,” Twitter user Orlando Cardozo said in a video posted to his page.
Cardozo, 33, was walking dogs on Roosevelt Island when he saw the man fall in the distance. He called 911 and signaled the passing ferry boat.
“The NYC ferry was coming from Brooklyn,” Cardozo recalled to the Post. “Not sure if they saw us or not, but they turned around and tried to save him.”
“I’m glad he is alive. And [I] am glad we were around to assist,” he added in a separate post to his Twitter.
The teen was taken to NewYork Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he is being treated for non-life threatening injuries, an FDNY spokeswoman said.
First responders rescued two more people — in separate incidents — from the waters off Manhattan earlier in the day, authorities said.
A woman was pulled from the East River near East 23rd Street after she attempted suicide around 5:15 a.m, police and fire department spokespeople said.
“I saw the person barely hanging on. I then saw them let go of the wall, so I quickly jumped in and grabbed the patient to keep them afloat,” FDNY firefighter Jeffery Saccomanno said in a post on the FDNY’s page after the incident.
She was transported to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.
Around noon, a man was rescued from the Hudson River near West 159th Street, though it wasn’t immediately clear how he ended up there.
The victim, who was in his 60s — was taken to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.