I wish she had gotten an engineer to sign off on a safety harness or a net, and a proper permit.  It all would have cost less than what she's going to pay in fees now.  It also would have safeguarded the people below, so nobody would have anything to complain about other than how it looked.  And it looked awesome.  I agree with some of the other negative posters here:  if you want to defy death, do it where you don't risk other people's health, safety, wefare, or property.

As a black man...

I could only imagine contorting myself out of
handcuffs and the ruthless “ass whipping” that the cops would give me.
The fact that every person that walked in and interrupted the cops from
doing their job, should also have been locked up and charged with
Disorderly Conduct & Disrupting an Investigation and held over night
in the the tombs.  They are just irritating and really do feel entitled to do whatever they like.

So sad…so pathetic...
 

What's all the complaining about.  We live in an overly controlled state, this is civic art, protest liberal action and free speech, wasting time an resources, its the PD that had a f..king cow and wasted resources.

Well, not quite.  now we have the cost of all the new safety devices they will have to put on the bridge to prevent this from happening again, plus the lane closures that will affect pedestrians, cyclist, subway riders and drivers while they install the safety equipment.  Others were probably inconvienced as much as I was.  What gives her the right to screw up my night?  But she got to do her self serving stunt, at everyone elses expense.

I don't know what this has to do with hipsters, but I do find it pretty obnoxious... a lot like improv everywhere, but more dangerous.

I was crossing the bridge just as it ended, and had no idea why it was so crowded. But the cops I saw had batons in hand. Not sure why they felt the need to be ready to beat people just trying to pass.

Video footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Can the City sue these people for wasting their time/resources? 

If its a choice between living in a post 9-11 police state or being submitted to "performance art" on bridges I choose the former.

subjected, but your submission is welcome

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Hipster

The comments on here are hilarious. When I read the story, I didn't see a connection to hipsters, but apparently anything mildly out of the ordinary is considered to be hipster-related and terrible.  A lot of you really need to get over yourselves. I am a NYer born and raised, very uncool yuppie and I have no problem with an acrobat pulling stunt like this. This has happened in the City all my life and is part of what makes living here so unique. Lighten up!

Exactly something a hipster would say.  How ironic; we're on to you.

Ahhh...you caught me. My ironic t-shirt is straining to bust out from underneath my suit shirt.

I believe what's setting everyone off here is not the event itself, but its location (i.e. the *Williamsburg* Bridge).

Exactly. These people know nothing else about NY other than Williamsburg = hipster

other articles note she's a bed-stuy resident, has performed and taught all throughout nyc including numerous public spots, and regardless if she had done it on the manhattan bridge she would be what? a yuppie? on the brooklyn? a jew? the location means nothing. put your head on straight

You've missed the point of the comment. You're correct, the location shouldn't mean anything. But to the majority of the people commenting here it does.

we should just learn to ignore these stunts, then they will go away. then bill the knuckleheads after they fall and make a mess.