(Gregory P. Mango)
AND AWAY HE HOSE:The mystery daredevil (circled) dangles from a hose (arrow).
ROPE-A-DOPE: An officer gathers up a hose at the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday after a mystery daredevil used it as a rope. (
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So much for heightened security on the Fourth.
A real-life Spider-Man used a hose to rappel down the side of the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday — and onto the roof of an NYPD facility — before scampering off, witnesses and authorities said.
When cops arrived, all they found was a dangling hose.
“I thought it was one of the guys that work there, but then I realized it’s Fourth of July today. No guys up there working,’’ passerby Richie Torres said.
The amazing Spidey — in his 20s, about 5-foot-8 and 150 pounds and in glasses and a red shirt — first attempted the feat at around 9 a.m. by climbing down construction netting that was fashioned into a rope.
He was on the southern Brooklyn side of the bridge, about a hundred feet up on Front Street near Dock Street, where road work is being done, witnesses said.
When he realized the rope was too short for him to jump down to the roof of an NYPD car-repair facility, he clambered back up, witnesses said.
The man then grabbed a construction air-compressor hose and tossed it down. He shimmied down it and leaped onto the roof of the one-story building. No one was inside.
He sprinted away over two or three adjoining rooftops.
“He was incredibly strong, because he managed to pull himself up and back down on the hose,’’ said Alan Smith, 28, who was doing yoga on his building’s roof when he saw the man and called cops.
Police helicopters hovered over Downtown Brooklyn as cops canvassed for surveillance footage of the stunt.
Authorities said the man is believed to be a thrill seeker, with no link to terrorism.
His stunt came amid heightened NYPD security for the Fourth of July.
Law-enforcement sources defended the NYPD, saying preventing such incidents is difficult on a busy bridge.
“You have foot traffic, vehicular traffic, construction workers . . . It becomes very, very hard to keep track of it all,” one source said.
If caught, the man could face criminal-trespassing and other charges, cops said.