The NYPD cop who famously stared down a 425-pound tiger named Ming in an East Harlem apartment in 2003 is showing he still knows how to talk New Yorkers off the ledge.
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Emergency Service Detective Marty Duffy and his partner saved a woman threatening to kill herself this month on a pier at West 125th and the Hudson, new video obtained by The Post shows.
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“I’m very sorry.
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I didn’t catch your name because of the wind,” Duffy, of ESU Truck 2, told the unidentified woman in an effort to get closer to her and eventually grab her.
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Duffy, who has nearly three decades on the job, and his partner, John Medina, responded to a 911 call about a woman who was standing on the outside ledge of the pier on Oct. 6.
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Medina immediately got the woman talking.
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“She’s like, ‘I’m suicidal,’” Duffy told The Post.
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“My God is telling me to kill myself.”
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He then asked her if she’d been to church lately while moving closer and telling her he couldn’t hear her over the wind.
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“So she turns around and sees me and I say the same thing,” Duffy recalled.
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“And she kind of looks down and she’s distracted,” he said.
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“I’m like… it’s now or never, and I kind of gave John the hi sign and I grabbed her and then John came over and grabbed her with me
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At that point, the woman reached into her left pocket and Duffy asked what she had there.
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“You have to use critical thinking and decide, ‘If a chance arises to save her life, we have to take that chance,’” Duffy said.
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“So, it worked.
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It worked out great for her because she didn’t end up in the Hudson.”
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Duffy won some fame, even though the humble cop rejects it, for the case of Ming on Oct. 4, 2003.
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Duffy was among dozens of cops who responded after getting a call about a tiger inside an East Harlem apartment.
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The tiger’s owner, Antoinne Yates, went to the hospital claiming a pit bull had bitten him.
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But doctors knew it wasn’t a dog bite and cops were sent to the Drew Hamilton Houses.
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“I was very, very young cop (in ESU) at the time,” he said, noting that he was with a more senior police officer.
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He recalled that officers decided to cut holes in the wall of an adjoining apartment to try and figure out where the cat was.
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“I felt bad that we kind of displaced a mom and her young son,” Duffy said.
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“But, like, who has ever encountered a tiger before and like how do we broach this carefully and safely for everybody?”
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The cops made a plan to lower Duffy and another officer to different areas outside of the building to dart Ming.
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“I was lowered from the 7th floor down to the 5th floor,” Duffy recalled.
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“I heard him at one point. …
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I see him, and the window’s ajar because of the child gates.
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That’s my time.
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“Don’t embarrass yourself,” he recalled thinking in the moment.
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“You’re brand new to the unit…
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“I didn’t miss, and I was able to successfully dart Ming, and again, it was just, it was a whole team effort,” Duffy stressed.
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Truck 2, which covers all of Manhattan north of 59th Street, tackles every kind of job there is, Duffy said.
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“We have everything,” said Duffy, who followed in his father’s footsteps as a detective in the NYPD and carries his shield number.
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“We have our perp jobs, we have our EDP (Emotionally Disturbed Person) jobs, we have our water jobs.
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We’re a busy truck.”
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