NYPD officers scaled the Williamsburg Bridge Sunday to talk down a suicidal New Yorker in a daring rescue captured on bodycam video. Members of the department’s Emergency Service Unit climbed up ...

A man threatening suicide shut down the Williamsburg Bridge for hours Friday morning, bringing subway, pedestrian and motor vehicle traffic to a halt. The unidentified man was talked down shortly ...

Five teenage boys were arrested for climbing one of the Williamsburg Bridge towers on Wednesday night, police said. Four 16-year-olds and a 13-year-old were seen by passersby on the Brooklyn-side ...

The Williamsburg Bridge, it could be said, was made for its new role. When it opened in 1903, it served as an overflow bridge to ease the traffic backups on its older and more glamorous neighbor ...

A disabled train on the Williamsburg Bridge and other problems led to delays and reroutes on multiple subway lines late Thursday afternoon, as New Yorkers prepared for New Year's Eve celebrations ...

The bridge influenced the growth of Williamsburg from the mixed Jewish, non-Jewish German and Irish neighborhood it had been in the late 19th century, into the heavily Jewish neighborhood it had ...

NYPD: Man climbs Williamsburg Bridge cables, snarls morning commute NEW YORK -- Police shut down traffic on the Williamsburg Bridge for hours Friday morning after they say a man climbed onto its ...

Pedestrians and bicyclists were at each other’s throats this week on the remaining Williamsburg Bridge bike path now that the city has closed the southern lane for repairs that will drag on through ...

The Williamsburg Bridge is the most heavily-cycled bridge in North America, depositing thousands of cyclists a day onto Delancey Street, and whether you bike, walk, drive or take the train there ...

The Williamsburg Bridge may not have inspired the adoration that certain other bridges have — no Simon and Garfunkel songs or Hart Crane paeans — but the Brooklyn Arts Council is making sure ...

New York City celebrates the 100-year anniversary of the Williamsburg Bridge. NPR's Karen Michel reports on the structure that connects many artists and old time residents of Williamsburg ...