PHOTOS: Police Rescue Would-Be Jumper From Midtown High-Rise

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — Officers with the NYPD's elite Emergency Services Unit saved a man's life Wednesday morning in a dramatic rescue more than fifty stories in the air on top of a Midtown Manhattan high-rise.

Officers with the ESU responded to the 55th floor of a building on Park Avenue near East 56th Street after receiving reports of a man threatening to jump, police officials said. When police approached the man, he began to swing a metal pipe at them, an NYPD spokesperson said.

"He was swinging a pipe at the cops stating he wanted to jump, but they persisted, putting themselves in harm's way [and] saved his life," police wrote in a post to the main NYPD Twitter account.

Officers were able to take the man into custody, place him on a backboard and remove him from the dangerous situation, police said. Police did not reveal any information about the man, or whether he was injured during the rescue.

Check out dramatic photos of the rescue below:

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