Cop saves suicidal boy

13-yr.-old was about to jump from Manhattan Bridge

Call him Sgt. Save.

An NYPD sergeant doing a survey on the Manhattan Bridge sprang into action and saved a distraught 13-year-old boy who was about to leap off the East River span, officials said Wednesday.

Sgt. William Hart, who is assigned to the NYPD’s Quality of Life Division, was in plainclothes during his quality-of-life inspection on the bridge about 5 p.m. Tuesday when three people at the Brooklyn side ran up to him to report that a youngster had scaled a fence and was sitting on a railing with nothing in front of him but a 100-foot drop to the ground below.

The child was wearing a hoodie, glasses and was wearing a backpack as he sat on the railing, not acknowledging anyone around him.

“He appeared to be about 17 or 18,” Hart, 49, said at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge on Wednesday. “He didn’t say anything. He looked cold and was shivering.”

Sgt. Hart tried to talk to the youngster through the fence, but when that didn’t work, he utilized his 11 years of training with the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit — and scaled the fence.

Hart sat on the railing next to the boy, then, a second later, grabbed hold of the teen.

The boy didn’t let go, Hart recalled.

“He was sitting on a railing over land,” Hart said.

“He didn’t fight,” the 20-year NYPD veteran said, shrugging off praise for his heroic act. “I just helped him back over the fence.”

“I’m grateful for the opportunity to be able to help him because I just happened to be there,” Hart said. “Who knows how long he would have sat like that? Had he jumped, it probably would have been fatal, based on the height.”

The adolescent, who is from Brooklyn, told police his mother was sick and that he wanted to kill himself.

“He said he was thinking about ending it all,” a police source said.

The young teen, who also has a psychiatric history, was taken to Maimonides Medical Center for an evaluation.

He was back with his parents Tuesday night, officials said.