A 3-year-old boy who toppled from a fifth-story apartment window in Brooklyn Tuesday night miraculously survived the fall, cops said.
The tot was playing with a window air conditioner around 8:40 p.m. when he went tumbling from the rear of an apartment building on E. 21st St. near Church Ave. in Flatbush, cops said.
Building superintendent Javier Cornejo said he rushed to the fifth-floor apartment after getting a frantic call from the boy’s parents.
“The mother of the baby said the baby pushed aside the insulation on the air conditioner,” said Cornejo, 41. “The baby fell because the tenant installed the AC and it wasn’t secure.”
“He opened the installation and fell out,” he said. “When I got there, the kid was on the ground. He was face down. I couldn’t believe it.”
“They brought him out on the stretcher. He was still breathing,” said another eyewitness, who declined to give his name. “I couldn’t look to tell you the truth. I had to look away.”
“His father was with him. He was in shock,” the man recounted.
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NYPD detectives investigate at a Flatbush apartment building where a 3 year old fell from a fifth floor window Tuesday night. (Jeff Bachner/New York Daily News)
Medics rushed the tot to Maimonides Medical Center where he was expected to survive, police said.
“He’s fine,” said a woman who identified herself as the boy’s relative. Detectives were seen escorting the woman into a car with another toddler.
Cornejo said the boy has “special needs.”
“He can’t be in one spot too long. He moves around too much,” he said.
No criminality was suspected late Tuesday, cops said.
