The 4/21 -22 Roosevelt Island Public Safety Incident Report indicated:
Parachute – Male wanted to jump from a hill with a parachute. He was not allowed to do so for safety reasons.
Yesterday, I sent the following inquiry to the Roosevelt Island Public Safety Department:
Can you provide more info on this incident – where did it take place, what time, did it involve a Roosevelt Island resident, did the person ask permission to jump from hill or was he/she just spotted before jumping and any other relevant information.
Have not received a reply yet but will update if I do. This was not the first incident of its type on Roosevelt Island. As reported in this post from June 2010:
It looks like some Roosevelt Island residents may be missing the Tram Ride soaring over the East River and getting a little sick of the subway so they are taking matters into their own hands by trying to paraglide off of Roosevelt Island.
If you were walking around the Riverwalk Commons area in Southtown yesterday you may have seen this daredevil trying to capture a little bit of wind so that he could take off from Roosevelt Island and fly over the East River to who knows where.
After many attempts at getting the canopy up in the air and then running down the short hill, our intrepid Paraglider got a few feet off the ground but never made it off of Roosevelt Island.
Maybe next time when there is more wind he will succeed! Maybe not.
Here’s how paragliding take-off is supposed to work.
Yeah, I’m sure that will work on Roosevelt Island – aren’t you?
