The Bride of Park Slope

teafolks

From the Brooklyn Paper.

Anyone know if this was an art project or just a bad situation?

Fourth Street was abuzz on Sunday when neighbors awoke to find a woman — in full wedding attire — apparently asleep on a ledge above the door of a Park Slope brownstone.

Police quickly arrived, but no one knew what to make of the mysterious woman or even how she could have gotten up on the ledge without assistance. (See photos, right.)

“They asked me if I knew or recognized her or had any idea why she was there,” said Tom Santisi. “I didn’t know what was going on.”

Cops carried the woman down from the ledge, and questioned her in Spanish and English. But witnesses said she gave no response.

“Maybe she’s a fallen angel,” one cop said.

The woman had a teddy bear-shaped bag with her that contained a wedding ring inside a Tiffany box, a witness told The Brooklyn Paper. When the cops took it away from her briefly, she squealed, a witness said, and the officer gave it back.


“That was the only time she responded at all,” said Magda Grant, who lives across the street. “She was a beautiful girl.”

After EMS workers took her away, neighborhood remained stunned.

“It’s very strange,” said a neighbor. “Was she put there or did she climb up herself? This has been the talk of the block since.”

Another neighbor added, “We all kept thinking, ‘This has got to be some NYU film student prank or something! Where’s Ashton Kutcher to tell us we’re being punk’d?’ But once the cops cuffed her, it didn’t seem like a joke anymore.”

Residents of the brownstone, which is between Eighth Avenue and Prospect Park West, were not home at the time of the incident and haven’t returned yet, neighbors said.

LINK WITH PICS:
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/28/30_28mysterybride.html

daver

Weird.

drano

Kinda smells like some sort of ad/publicity stunt. For what I do not know, but should it come to light let the city send 'em the bill.

germfree!

No, It's actually a sad story about a woman who stopped taking her meds.

caseopele

Poor thing, I can sympathize. I hope she has good support, a good doctor, and is able to recognize that she needs help. She looks beautiful in the top pic though.

brooklynpotter

i heard about this. sad.

btw, where can i find a brooklyn paper? i hear i'm in there

restless native

Asinine. :roll:

brooklynpotter

Restless Native wrote: Asinine. :roll:

why do you feel you have to be so mean all the time?

apollonia666

germfree! wrote: No, It's actually a sad story about a woman who stopped taking her meds.

germfree!, do you know something that wasn't in the newspaper article, or are you speculating? It's not clear from your post.

eggcream

How and why? How did she get in there by herself and I wonder why she would go in there.

slopehead

There is virtually no way in hell she did that by herself - it's got to be some kind of prank, stunt, or ad campaign.

germfree!

Slopehead wrote: There is virtually no way in hell she did that by herself - it's got to be some kind of prank, stunt, or ad campaign.

No. She got herself up there and it wasn't a stunt. She is ill and her parents are coming from overseas to take her home. I guess it was a stunt of sorts, but not in the sense I think you are implying.

(She is a friend of a friend)

dakotas way

It almost sounds like she got stood up at the altar at some point (what with the ring and the dress) and became more ill than she possibly had been before.
Either way its very tragic.

bklyngirl

dakotas way wrote: It almost sounds like she got stood up at the altar at some point (what with the ring and the dress) and became more ill than she possibly had been before.
Either way its very tragic.

yes, let's all make up our own scenarios. :?

the chipster

"Way to go Paula!! Way to go!"

karl the druid

the natalie merchant bandit has stolen your attention

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dakotas way

I was just speculating

bklyngirl

dakotas way wrote: I was just speculating

That's how rumors get started, though.

Someone had "speculated" that a child had been kidnapped in Carroll Park about a month or so ago. The person had seen a 4 yr old girl leave the park with a man who had a little dog.

The moms went nuts, posting pics of neighbors and registered sex offenders alike on all of the parenting boards. Turns out mom went to the bathroom, leaving her child in the company of......her trusted friend and and neighbor. Said friend had been harrassed by the local mom mafia to no end, and he had done nothing wrong.

I do hope this is a publicity stunt, and am surprised that a 9 year old took such artfully beautiful photographs of the scene.

dakotas way

How do you know a 9 year old took the picture?

veets

I don't really see the "art" in this photograpgh.. I am not putting down a nine year old. All I am saying is that every now and again anyone points the camera and shoots and voila....The subject is just so overwhelming that if that subject is captured in the perameters of the frame we have...... an extraordinary photograph.. That is what I see.

carnivore

The art is in the choice of when to click, and how to frame it, and the exposure, and all the other decisions that the photographer makes when taking the picture.

veets

yes that is the art of it.

the chipster

No matter what its intentions; the framing of that moment IS art. Was she a willing participant or not--up to debate.

germfree!

The Chipster wrote: No matter what its intentions; the framing of that moment IS art. Was she a willing participant or not--up to debate.

Debate your heart out! :roll:

bklyngirl

dakotas way wrote: How do you know a 9 year old took the picture?

Gowanus Lounge.

raw

I'm falling asleep. Who cares?

lmboogie

looks like the mystery has been solved.
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/28/30_28mysterysolved.html

powerof10brooklyn

Very sad. I hope she gets some help.

theoryofpractice

Yep. Sad story.

Although perhaps for the best -- if the fiancé couldn't help her with this, being married isn't going help either. Looks like he wasn't ready for the "in sickness and in health" part, so good riddance.

veets

theoryofpractice wrote: Yep. Sad story.

Although perhaps for the best -- if the fiancé couldn't help her with this, being married isn't going help either. Looks like he wasn't ready for the "in sickness and in health" part, so good riddance.

I so agree with this.

Sometimes the "best marriages" are the ones we are smart enough to back away from before the wedding day. . betting many of us have had that experience.

quigley

I have to say, it would be pretty hard to go through with marrying someone who is bipolar and refusing to take their meds... I hope her family can help her.