Police Rescues Man on George Washington Bridge

Fox 5 News and CBS report that the situation had created huge NYC Traffic and the the streets of New York City leading to George Washington Bridge were jammed, as the traffic was closed.

George Washington Bridge was closed this morning because of the man who apparently threatened to jump from GWB as he was sitting atop the George Washington Bridge in NYC.

NYPD rescue team did a great job by slowly moving and eventually removed the man from the bridge.

"Chopper 2 HD was over the scene as police officers slowly moved in and rescued a man who was seen repeatedly slashing his wrists. The police took the man into custody by 8:30 a.m. on top of the bridge between New York and New Jersey. The upper level was reopened around 9:30 a.m., the Port Authority told CBS 2 News," reports CBS.

The man was seen on the top of the bridge around 7A.AM. this morning and with combined efforts by the NYPD and The Porth Authority of New York & New Jersey, was rescued and taken to Bergen Regional Medical Center in Paramus, N.J.

NYC and George Washington Bridge traffic is now open.

"The George Washington Bridge over the Hudson is the most beautiful bridge in the world. Made of cables and steel beams, it gleams in the sky like a reversed arch. It is blessed. It is the only seat of grace in the disordered city. It is painted an aluminum color and, between water and sky, you see nothing but the bent cord supported by two steel towers. When your car moves up the ramp, the two towers rise so high that it brings you happiness; their structure is so pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel architecture seems to laugh"¦ The second tower is very far away; innumerable vertical cables, gleaming across the sky, are suspended from the magisterial curve that swings down and then up. The rose-colored towers of New York appear, a vision whose harshness is mitigated by distance." - Le Corbusier - By HULIQ.com based on agency reports.