NYC man leaps into North Pool at 9/11 Memorial, survives and is busted

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A 33-year-old Manhattan man jumped into the North Pool at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum on Monday afternoon and survived with just a leg injury — but was awaiting criminal charges, according to police.

The NYPD responded to the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan around 1:30 p.m. after a Port Authority cop spotted the man leap into one of the two tiered reflecting pools at the memorial — and climbed down to grab him, police and law enforcement sources said.

A video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, shows the man lying in the 18-inch-deep water in the pool’s central basin, peering into the opening in the middle.

He then slowly slides head-first and drops 20 feet into the lower part of the pool as witnesses gasp in horror, according to footage obtained by The Post. 

Police said he suffered an injury to his left leg and was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was in stable condition.

The man, whose name is being withheld by The Post pending criminal charges, was taken into custody.

It was not immediately known why the man jumped.

The pair of reflecting pools at the memorial site mark the former footprints of the Twin Towers before they were felled during the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and now honor those who died that day.

Each pool features a 30-foot waterfall, with the water dropping into an acre-size basin that flows into a smaller opening in the center that drops another 20 feet.

The site is public and access to the grounds, including the reflecting pools, is not restricted.

According to sources, a potential jumper was talked down off the ledge at the South Pool last month.

Last year, another individual did leap into the North Pool, the sources said, although details of that incident were not immediately available.

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