A Manhattan jury Thursday ​found three daredevils ​not guilty ​of burglary — the top charge against them — for taking​ a death-defying plunge off the World Trade Center in 2013 but convicted them of reckless endangerment and illegal BASE jumping.

After two full days of deliberations, the jurors reached their decision on James Brady, 33, Andrew Rossig, 34, and Marko Markovich, 28.

“This verdict represents the plea that we would have taken over a year ago had the District Attorney’s office not chosen to waste untold thousands of taxpayer dollars to make a failed political statement,” said Rossig’s lawyer Tim Parlatore.

The BASE jumpers sneaked through a fence at the hallowed site, climbed the staircase to the top and leaped from the 1,776-foot skyscraper Sept 30, 2013.

The men were busted Feb. 17, after cops tracked them down through surveillance video that captured the extraordinary feat and their getaway car.

After the DA began its investigation, the lawyers for the three men posted their helmet cam videos of the 3 a.m. jump on YouTube, which quickly went viral.

During the two-week trial before Justice Juan Merchan in Manhattan Supreme Court, prosecutors argued that the men were guilty of felony burglary because they broke into 1 World Trade Center to commit the crime of illegal BASE jumping.

“That night on Sept 30, 2013 the defendants put their egos above the law, they believed that their parachutes and their BASE jumping experience somehow gave them the right to burglarize the Freedom Tower and turn all of Lower Manhattan into their drop zone,” Assistant District Attorney Joseph Giovannetti told jurors in his closing statement.

He referred to the sport as an “inherently dangerous activity.”

Defense lawyers for the daredevils conceded that their clients were indeed guilty of the lesser charge of misdemeanor BASE jumping but not felony burglary or reckless endangerment.

The lawyers made the creative argument that the men were innocent of burglary because the crime cannot be committed on top of a building, only within it, according to the language of the burglary statute.

“A burglary charge was brought for no reason,” said Markovich’s lawyer Joseph Corozzo.

“This jump was made from a glorified fire escape.”

Giovannetti countered that the men plunged from an open structure that sits on top of the roof and is essentially an extension of the building.

The defense lawyers also argued that the thrill seekers are experts at their sport, who monitored weather conditions and traffic patterns in preparation for their jump, and shouldn’t be found guilty of reckless endangerment.

“These defendants, what they did was careful and safe, they did follow precautions,” Parlatore told jurors in his closing statement. “We’re not talking about someone who just went up to the tower one day and decided to jump off and had no idea how this parachute works.”

At the time of the WTC stunt, the three men had over 8,500 jumps under their belts, according to their lawyers.

“This case is about three highly-skilled, highly-trained BASE jumpers following their passion and jumping from the top of the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere,” Parlatore said.

“It’s part of what makes New York city so unique.”

The men face up to a year in jail when they’re sentenced in August.

“In the nearly two years since this BASE jump occurred, the three men who parachuted off One World Trade Center have yet to acknowledge the dangerousness or cost of their actions,” said District Attorney Cy Vance. “The defendants took pride in their perceived accomplishment, and seemed to relish evasion of authorities. Today, a jury found their stunt to be reckless and illegal.”