A 4-year-old boy miraculously survived a five-floor fall from his Brooklyn apartment window onto the hard concrete below late Tuesday, cops said.
The youngster was playing in the fifth-floor apartment of the 6-story building on East 21st Street near Church Avenue in Flatbush around 8:45 p.m. when he pushed out the AC window unit and tumbled down behind it, authorities and police sources said.
The tot — whose name has been withheld by cops — apparently landed on the pavement in the back of the building, without anything to break his fall.
“From the sound of the fall I didn’t know what it was, but I heard the boom when he hit the ground – like, BOOM, and I said to my daughter, what the hell was that?” next-door neighbor Trena Taylor told The Post. “I was getting dressed for work and I heard someone in the hallway say, ‘Call 911,’ but I’m like, ‘Is there a fire in the building? What’s going on?’ So I went to the window and saw the father running to the basement with a neighbor.”
The boy was rushed to Maimonides Medical Center, where he was listed in critical but stable condition.
He “appeared awake because he was crying,” Taylor said.
“I’m very happy that he survived,” the neighbor added. “I was shocked when they brought him out on a stretcher and he was crying. I didn’t see any blood. I was like, oh my God, thank God he’s crying, he’s breathing.”
The child is one of three young sons in the family, Taylor said.
“They don’t normally make noise or any loud screaming or anything like that, but she did acknowledge that she did have a special needs child and he was very hyperactive, always moving around, running around,” the woman added. “[The mother] was saying she was looking into getting him into a special school and stuff like that.”
Taylor described the child’s parents as “very nice people” who always spent time with their children.
“I’m just so sad that that happened to them,” she said.
“What happened yesterday was a shock to everybody, because things like that don’t happen in this building.”
Taylor’s daughter Nyomie Greaves, 20, described the heart-pounding incident as “every mother’s worst nightmare.”
“I would have gone crazy,” Graves said. “You know how kids are. They’re always curious, always touching. You just catch them before they hurt themselves, but sometimes you don’t catch them in time.”
No criminality is suspected in the boy’s fall, cops said Tuesday.
