Overview
- FDNY executed a complex confined-space, high-angle rescue using ropes and specialized gear, deploying about 75 responders and multiple apparatus.
- Firefighters located a shoe and blood near an open hatch, then accessed the buttress shaft on the bridge’s lower Queens side to reach the 16-year-old.
- The boy was transported to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center after an hours-long entrapment and is now stable after initially being listed as critical.
- Authorities say friends who were with the teen did not promptly call for help, and an anonymous tip and circulating videos later directed responders to the bridge.
- NYPD and local officials are investigating the circumstances, with social media posts tied to the group showing risky behavior and some accounts later purged of content.