A Staten Island man jumped to his death yesterday from the Verrazano Narrows Bridge — in front of a crowd of horrified onlookers, including a photographer who took this shocking picture. Joseph Batista plunged from the upper level at 8:20 a.m. off the Staten Island side, tumbled through the air, then hit the water with devastating force. The death of the 53-year-old sanitation worker came just a day before he planned to motorcycle to Florida on his Harley-Davidson, relatives said.
