The drama unfolded at about 7 p.m. Friday at East 30th Street and Fifth Avenue. (Ethan Kavet)
Cops were somehow able to pull the man to safety Friday. (Ethan Kavet)
(Photos: Ethan Kavet)
A group of NYPD officers with arms of steel yanked a suicidal and soaking-wet man from certain death yesterday in a remarkable rescue on the fifth floor of a Manhattan parking garage.
“That kid is so lucky,” said Mirono Sarah, who saw the drama unfold at about 7 p.m. at East 30th Street and Fifth Avenue.
At one point, one of the cops holding onto the unidentified jumper’s arm almost lost his grip when his hand slid down the man’s forearm, which was wet from the earlier rainstorm, witnesses said.
The cops had been trying to talk the despondent man down from the edge for 15 minutes when he suddenly sprang forward.
Det. Sean Mulcahy said that the man had told him “life wasn’t good for him anymore.”
The man then pushed himself off the ledge to jump, but cops moved just as quickly, eventually pulling him to safety.
He was in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital last night.
Two cops from the 14th precinct — Sgt. Daniel Lacalamita and police officer Philip Conti — as well as Sgt. Douglas Walden, police officer Joseph Wendler and Det. James Coll from the Emergency Services Unit also worked on the dramatic rescue.