Woman dead after plunging from Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

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A woman fell from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to her death Friday morning.

(Staten Island Advance/Anthony DePrimo)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Police say a 45-year-old woman is dead after falling or jumping from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Friday morning.

Her identity and the circumstances surrounding the 10:40 a.m. incident remain unknown.

The NYPD said the body was found by the police's harbor unit after it landed on the rock base beneath the bridge's Brooklyn tower.

Police said the incident is under investigation.

Two of the bridge's Staten Island-bound lanes were closed at 10:47 a.m., said the MTA.

One reopened an hour later.

All of the bridge's lanes were opened as of 12:47 p.m., said an MTA spokeswoman.

The Verrazano has been the scene of at least eight suicides and six more attempts since December 2011, according to Advance records.

The suicides have come in clusters -- two in a one-month stretch from December 2011 to Jan 2012, three more between May 27 and June 28 in 2012, and two between March 30 and April 14 of last year.

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