Police ID woman who jumped to her death from GWB

The victim was identified as Rebecca S. Wasserstrum, 28, of Brooklyn.

FORT LEE - Police have identified the woman who jumped from the George Washington Bridge Sunday as Rebecca S. Wasserstrum, 28, of Brooklyn.

Wasserstrum jumped about 4:15 p.m. near the New York Tower, authorities said.

Her car was located on 178^th Street and Broadway in Manhattan.

"That's close to the Manhattan end of the bridge," said Port Authority Police spokesman Joseph Pentangelo.

Woman jumps off GWB

A man driving across the bridge saw the woman jump and stopped his vehicle. He got out and looked over the railing and spotted the woman about 200 feet below in the Hudson River, police said.

New York police officers in a harbor patrol unit pulled the body from the water. The woman was pronounced dead a short time later at Mt. Sinai St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan, police said.

The suicide was the seventh from the bridge this year, Pentangelo said. There were 18 deaths in 2015.

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