Dork Knight rises
Caped man’s B’klyn roof high jinks
He’s Gotham’s Caped Kooksader.
A man in a black cape clambered out onto a Brooklyn rooftop and fire escape Saturday morning, forcing cops to shut down a block of Franklin Avenue before he agreed to come down.
The man — sporting a headband and a superhero-worthy set of abs — ditched his leggings during the high jinks in Crown Heights, leaving him in his cape and a pair of briefs as he traipsed atop a one-story building before venturing higher onto an adjacent building’s fire escape.
“He’s Spider-Man. He’s up and down all the time in the neighborhood. They keep catching him, and he keeps coming back,” said longtime resident A.M. Butch, 62.
“He was up there saying, ‘If you want me, come and get me.’ After an hour or so, he just gave up, put clothes on and they got him down.”
It took cops a couple hours to get the man to come down, said another witness, David Olmo, 33.
“He didn’t look right in the head,” Olmo said.
The climber, who at one point brandished a banana, is known for finding odd perches in the neighborhood, residents said.
“Oh, yeah, I’ve seen him a couple of times. He climbed a tree out here. I’ve seen him climb on an ambulance. The first time I saw him, he was running down the street climbing on people’s cars,” said Sincere Davidson, 27.
“It’s so wild to see this kind of thing in the same area, same neighborhood, same guy. He has a thing for climbing.”
The man, whose name was not immediately released, sang and yelled at cops from the fire escape, said a resident named Victor who lives across the street.
“Last year on Labor Day, I heard he was on Eastern Parkway, running around causing a scene,” Victor said. “He’s an actor that doesn’t get paid. He just does it for show. And they keep letting him back.”