A woman bizarrely drove her car onto a sidewalk and up to the gate around the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan on Sunday morning.
The 53-year-old was hospitalized after cops coaxed her out of the vehicle, which she drove up to the gate at the UN’s headquarters off of First Avenue at 42nd Street around 9:45 a.m., police said.
“She was having a psychiatric episode,” a police source said.
Video shows police officers with the NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit trying to talk to the woman through her closed driver’s side window after UN security called 911.
Eventually, she gets out of the car and is placed on a gurney.
A woman was “having a psychiatric episode” when she drove her car onto a sidewalk and up to the gate of the United Nations headquarters. G.N. Miller
The woman was taken to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. G.N. MillerShe was taken to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
Her identity wasn’t released and it was unclear why she wouldn’t move her vehicle or if she had any connection to the UN.
