later, Bottom began moving toward the detective with the multi-tool knife raised in his left hand, before he turned around and ascended the suspension cable away from Giordani.

Bottom descends again five minutes later, this time revealing the object in his hand as a knife as he holds it out toward the detective and approaches him.

Footage from a drone hovering nearby shows Bottom raising the knife within reach of one of the officers. It's then that Sgt. Dennis Dooley, who was standing on the roadbed below, fires one shot, striking Bottom.

Officers brought Bottom down and began rendering aid before medics arrived and rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Cops recovered his knife, a Leatherman multi-tool, and a flashlight that he dropped, officials said.

Assistant Chief Gerard Dowling, the commanding officer of ESU, previously told reporters at a press conference that Bottom told officers,  I want to die. I want you to kill me. I have a bomb. You're not going to make me do something bad to the cops. 

The bomb Bottom mentioned was never found.

The armed man, who lived in Parkchester, was described by his next-door neighbor as a quiet guy who kept to himself.

 That's crazy. I wouldn't even imagine that,  Nicole, 30, said of his killing.  I don't have a relationship with him, but because I live right here, it's really sad. I feel really bad. 

The September 4 shooting came days after the police shot and killed a mentally ill woman wielding two knives in Times Square after she had stabbed two people, killing one.

On Aug. 31, the emotionally disturbed woman, identified as 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros, stabbed a 68-year-old Rhode Island man in the stomach near W. 41st St. and Seventh Ave. around 4:20 p.m., before fatally knifing 32-year-old Erin Piacenti, a mother of a 5-month-old baby girl who had just returned to her job as a vice president at Bank of America.

Cops quickly found Cisneros holding two kitchen knives and surrounded her. Officers Tased and then fatally shot Cisneros as she advanced on them, swinging a knife in each hand, cops said.