Four New York-area men were arrested Monday after a BASE jumping stunt from atop One World Trade Center in September , police said . The charges against James Brady , Kyle Hartwell , Marko Markovich and Andrew Rossig included burglary , reckless endangerment and jumping from a structure , according to a statement issued by NYPD Commissioner William Bratton . `` These men violated the law and placed themselves , as well as others , in danger , '' Bratton said . `` These arrests should send a message to anyone thinking about misusing a landmark this way . '' Three of the men are accused of climbing the nation 's tallest building on September 30 and parachuting more than 1,300 feet off the skyscraper , said attorney Timothy Parlatore , who is representing Rossig . Hartwell is accused of keeping lookout at the base of the tower during the stunt , Parlatore said . Video footage of the early morning jump shows the men deploying their parachutes and flying down to a secluded spot on a nearby highway , according to Parlatore , who said he 's seen the video . `` They were very professional , very controlled . There was nothing haphazard or reckless about it , '' he said . At the time of the incident , Brady was a construction worker assigned to work at the One World Trade Center site , police said . The men snuck into the area through a hole in a fence , said Parlatore . `` One of the first things my client said to me was that how surprised he was at how there was no security whatsoever -- how easy it was to just walk right up there in something that the mayor has just recently described as the No . 1 terrorist target in the world , '' he said . Investigators reviewed video footage from around One World Trade Center , as well as other electronic and photographic evidence . A search of the men 's homes last month produced video footage of the jump , police said . One World Trade Center is rising in the shadows of the original World Trade Center , where the twin towers were felled by two hijacked airplanes on September 11 , 2001 , in the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil . The charges come less than a week after a 16-year-old boy from New Jersey was arrested on trespassing charges at the skyscraper . Justin Casquejo is accused of sneaking past security and climbing to the top of the building . Police said Casquejo also snuck in through a hole in a fence to get into the One World Trade Center site . It is unclear whether it was the same hole in a fence that the BASE jumpers said they used , said Parlatore . BASE is an acronym for building , antenna , span , earth . It was not known Monday night when the men would be arraigned . `` The Port Authority joins the NYPD in condemning this lawless and selfish act that clearly endangered the public , '' Port Authority Chief Security Officer Joseph Dunne said in a statement . `` It should be clear that the PAPD and NYPD will go to any length to bring those who defile the WTC site to justice . '' The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey owns the trade center site .
BASE jumping incident from skyscraper ##s in September . Defense Department surveillance video of jump shows men deploying parachutes , gliding down to ground . Arrest comes after N.J. teen was arrested on trespassing charges at night .