The ironworker who parachuted from One World Trade Center said his death-defying leap was “amazing,” but it’s not something he would try again.
“No, I wouldn’t do it again,” said James Brady, 32, who BASE jumped off the roof of the tallest building in the nation last September, along with two fellow thrill-seekers.
“It’s amazing,” he told The Post when asked to describe the now-infamous plunge.
“If you could take the realest, happiest moment of your life and relive that, that’s what it’s like.”
“It’s just the realest moment you can experience,” said Brady, who faces serious criminal charges for the stunt.
He was indicted last week on felony charges of burglary, trespassing and reckless endangerment.
Brady said he worked for nearly five years to help raise the iconic tower. The fearless hardhat installed a beam on the 104th floor that was signed by President Obama and even helped set the spire without being tied down.
Sometimes clocking as many as 70 hours in a work week, Brady would spend the night at the job site in a sleeping bag because he was often too exhausted to make the 55-mile trek home to Long Island.
But for years, the thrill-seeker couldn’t shake the idea of launching himself off the tower.
“I’m working on this building. What do I want to do? I want to jump off,” said Brady, who has approximately 700 skydive and BASE jumps — in which a parachutist leaps from a fixed object — under his belt.
“Working on heights and dealing with fear — I thrive on those things.”
On Sept. 30, Brady and fellow daredevils Andrew Rossig and Marko Markovich snuck through a hole in a fence covered only with a tarp before making their way to the top of One World Trade.
With a camera attached to one of their helmets, the men recorded their leap.
Brady scoffs at the reckless-endangerment charge that the trio were slapped with.
“If there was any risk taken, it was my own risk and no one else’s,” Brady said, touting his long history of successful jumps.
“There was nobody on the street. Nobody on the sidewalk. I can control [the parachute] to exactly where I want to land.”
The stunt was the first in what has become a long line of security lapses at One World Trade Center.
Last month, New Jersey teen Justin Casquejo snuck past security guards before taking the elevator to the top of the building to take pictures.
Last week, a man who had an interview for a construction job walked through an open security gate and managed to walk right past a security guard before someone stopped him.
That security guard has since been relieved of his duties and reassigned.
Additional reporting by Daniel Prendergast