It's Flying Niglet Season Again: Turdler Dies After Fall From Fifth Story Window


Brooklyn mom drops 6-month-old son from second-floor balcony​



By
Jesse O’Neill


April 28, 2022 8:01pm
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Crime scene tape is seen at the scene in front of 1870 51st St. in Brooklyn, Thursday, April 28, 2022.
A woman dropped her infant off the second-floor balcony of her Brooklyn apartment, police said. Robert Mecea





A troubled mother dropped her 6-month-old son from the second-floor balcony of the family’s Brooklyn apartment on Thursday morning, police said.
The infant was critically injured from the fall and investigators later Thursday were questioning his parents over the disturbing incident that took place before 5 a.m. at 1870 51st Street in Mapleton, the NYPD said.
The woman’s husband told police he was sleeping when his wife woke him up to say she had dropped their child from the balcony, authorities said.
The baby was taken to Maimonides Medical Center in critical but stable condition.
There was no word on any arrests by Thursday evening.
Crime scene tape is seen at the scene in front of the home.The infant was critically injured but is in stable condition.Robert Mecea Crime scene tape is seen at the scene in front of 1870 51st St. in Brooklyn, Thursday, April 28.The woman’s husband said his wife woke him up to say she had dropped their child from the balcony.Robert Mecea
 

Parents of toddler in fatal fall from NYC high-rise thought he was safely playing: sources​



By
Joe Marino,

Haley Brown,

Reuven Fenton and

Jorge Fitz-Gibbon


July 3, 2022 3:49pm
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NYC toddler falls to his death from 29th floor balcony, cops say



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The distraught mom of a tot who fell to his death from a Harlem high-rise told cops she thought her son was safely playing in the next room — till she saw the netting on the balcony flapping in the wind, sources say.
The mom and the toddler’s father had been talking in the bedroom thinking their 3-year-old son Jayce Garcia was fine playing in the living room, the parents told cops, according to law-enforcement sources. When the pair realized they weren’t hearing their son anymore, she went to look for him — and saw the loose mesh mosquito netting, sources said.
When the mom then looked down from the 29th-floor balcony, she saw Jayce’s tiny body on the scaffolding on the fifth floor below, sources said. Neighbors have told The Post that they could hear the mom screaming, “My baby!”
The Harlem building where 3-year-old Jayce Garcia fell from the 29th floor on July 2, 2022.The Harlem building where 3-year-old Jayce Garcia fell from the 29th floor on July 2, 2022.J.C.Rice
The toddler was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police believe the boy’s death was just a tragic accident, sources said.
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Meanwhile, the tot’s parents had a strained relationship, sources and neighbors said.

Records show that the toddler’s mother has an open case on a charge of endangering the welfare of a child dating to November, while the 24-year-old father has been named nine times in domestic-violence reports — seven of them as the victim.

Jayce's parents were talking in the apartment's living room while the toddler fell, according to police sources.Jayce’s parents were talking in the apartment’s living room when the toddler fell, according to police sources.
Jayce's grandmother Cherise Young described him as a happy baby whose mother loved him very much.Jayce’s grandmother Cherise Young described him as a “happy baby” whose mother “loved him very much.”
“[The boy’s mom is] not doing well at all,” the baby’s maternal grandmother, Cherise Young, 49, told The Post on Sunday. “She’s not well at all.”

Young, who lives in Connecticut, said Jayce “was a very happy baby.

“His mother loved him very much,” she said. “It was a normal, loving relationship.”

Young said she only met Jayce’s dad “a couple of times.”

The mom’s sister created a GoFundMe page for the family to give Jayce “the proper burial arrangements.”
 






NYC toddler falls to his death from 29th floor balcony, cops say​



By
Georgett Roberts,

Larry Celona and

Dean Balsamini


July 2, 2022 12:58pm
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NYC toddler falls to his death from 29th floor balcony, cops say




A 3-year-old boy died Saturday after falling from the 29th-floor balcony of an apartment building in Harlem — as his distraught mother screamed “My baby, my baby” from the street below, police and witnesses said.
Neighbors described hearing what sounded like a “boom” and a “thump” when the toddler fell and landed on fifth-floor scaffolding of a high-rise at the Taino Towers residential complex on Third Avenue between East 122nd and 123rd Streets around 11:10 a.m, the NYPD said.
“It sounded like something really heavy. It sounded like construction,” Tangerine Castro, who lives on the 23rd floor, said of the thunderous “boom.”
“We just started looking and everybody started coming out of their building,” she said. “Everybody that were upstairs that could see down, saw the little boy with the yellow shirt. He was flat in the scaffolding.”
The child’s mother, who was outside at the time, then began to yell, witnesses said.
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“She was sitting on the ground in her socks. She was screaming, ‘My baby, my baby, he is up there,'” said neighbor Alexander Townsend, 25.
The boy’s father, meanwhile, “ran downstairs crying,” and tried to climb onto the scaffolding to get his son but couldn’t, Townsend said.
The young boy fell from a building in the Taino Towers residential complex.The young boy fell from a building in the Taino Towers residential complex.J.C.Rice
The boy was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:31 a.m., the NYPD said.
Preliminary reports are that the child’s fall was accidental, police said.
Nidia Cordero, 58, a foster mom, who lives on the 34th floor, said her kids heard “a big fight” between adults coming from the 29th-story balcony and less than 10 minutes later, there was a “thump.”
“When you look out the terrace you see the baby’s body. He was in his diapers and T-shirt,” Cordero said.
“Then you hear screams,” she said. “I think the mom was screaming and I looked and the baby was in the scaffolding.”
The tragic incident occurred at about 11:10 a.m. at a high-rise on Third Avenue.The tragic incident occurred at about 11:10 a.m. at a high-rise on Third Avenue.J.C.Rice
Cordero said she had helped the tot’s mother in the past, even buying him diapers and milk.
“He was a beautiful little boy,” Cordero said.
The neighbor said she had seen the child in the building elevator with his dad, and described the boy looked “withdrawn.” She said she knew of domestic violence issues in the family.
The NYPD would not comment except to say, “the investigation is continuing.”
Castro, 33, the resident on the 23rd floor, said the balconies are about 30 years old and are in the process of being replaced. She said that mosquito netting on the balconies is quite old, too.
“We don’t have no AC right now. Everybody hangs out on the balcony right now but I can’t say if it’s one thing or another,” she said of what could have led to the tragedy.
 



5-Year-Old Boy Critically Injured After Falling Out Of Window In Fishtown: Philadelphia Police​



By CBS3 StaffJuly 31, 2022 at 4:06 pm



PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A 5-year-old boy was critically injured after falling out of a second-story window in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood on Saturday afternoon, police say. The incident happened on 5th Street and East Girard Avenue around 5 p.m.
Police responded to a person screaming and say they found the boy lying on the ground bleeding from his nose and mouth.
Police say he was transported to Jefferson Hospital by medics from the Philadelphia Fire Department and then airlifted to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The child is in critical condition with several facial fractures, according to officials.
The incident is being investigated by the Special Victims Unit.
Police tell CBS3, preliminarily, this appears to be a tragic accident.
 



3-year-old girl hospitalized after tumbling out window of NYC apartment building​



By
Allie Griffin,

Tina Moore and

Joe Marino


August 17, 2022 10:36pm
Updated





NYPD car in front of brick apartment building with sidewalk shed erected around it
A 3-year-old girl fell one story from a window in a Bronx building Wednesday evening. Christopher Sadowski


A 3-year-old girl fell out the window of a Bronx apartment building Wednesday evening and was rushed to the hospital.
The toddler tumbled out a third-floor window of a building located at 1511 Sheridan Ave. in Concourse Village around 7:30 p.m. and landed on scaffolding one floor below, police said.
The child avoided serious injury and was responsive when first responders arrived, according to police.
Close-up of window in brick apartment buildingThe child was taken to the hospital in stable condition.Christopher Sadowski A group of six NYPD officers stand on the sidewalk looking up.The girl landed on scaffolding, which helped break her fall.Christopher Sadowski



She was taken to New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center in stable condition.


The girl was in the care of her grandfather at the time, according to PIX11.
 

3-year-old boy falls out of second-story window in NYC, in critical condition​



By
David Propper


October 23, 2022 5:48pm
Updated





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A man speaks to officers about the unfortunate incident. Gregory P. Mango


A 3-year-old boy tumbled from a second-story window in Brighton Beach on Sunday and is in critical condition, according to authorities.
The incident occurred around 1:12 p.m. at 89 West End Avenue in Brooklyn, the NYPD said.
Child fell outside a windowThe child was taken to Staten Island University Hospital.Gregory P. Mango Brighton BeachThe incident happened in Brighton Beach.Gregory P. Mango
The child was rushed to Staten Island University Hospital in critical condition.
No criminality is suspected in the fall, police said, though details surrounding it were not immediately available.
The investigation is ongoing, cops said.
 

Flo Rida’s 6-year-old son in ICU after fall from Jersey City apartment window​



By
Taylor Knight


March 30, 2023 10:50am
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Rapper Flo Rida’s 6-year-old son, Zohar Dillard, fell from the fifth floor of a New Jersey apartment building onto the pavement — and has been in the ICU for almost a month.
The unfortunate incident happened on Mar. 4 at the home the child and his mother, Alexis Adams, shared in Jersey City.
Zohar is still in the ICU, News 12 NJ reported, and suffered pelvic fractures, left metatarsal fractures, grade three liver laceration, internal bleeding and a collapsed lung in the accident three weeks ago.

FLO RIDA AND ZOHAR DILLARDFlo Rida’s 6-year-old son, Zohar Dillard, was hospitalized after falling five stories down from a New Jersey apartment window. alexisadams/Instagram
Adams filed an eight-page lawsuit on Monday in Hudson County Superior Court, alleging the apartment building’s hazardous windows led to the fall. The lawsuit lists owners, managers, a construction company, a window installation company and others as defendants.


“I am devastated, angry and struggling to come to terms with the fact that my only child has suffered severe injuries due to willful negligence of our landlord and others involved in failing to take necessary safety measures,” she said in a statement.


Flo Rida, whose real name is Tramar Lacel Dillard, is not involved in the lawsuit.


The Post has reached out to reps for Dillard for comment.

Jersey City Apartment ComplexAdams is suing her landlord alleging incorrect window guard sizes caused her son to fall.tonycaputo/Instagram JERSEY CITY APARTMENT FALLThe child suffers pelvis fractures, left metatarsal fractures, grade three liver laceration, internal bleeding and a collapsed lung. Zohar DillardZohar was born with hydrocephalus, a rare neurological condition.alexisadams/Instagram
The mother is seeking compensation to pay for the treatment of her son’s injuries.


The 6-year-old was born with hydrocephalus, a neurological condition that causes an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within cavities in the brain. The boy was later diagnosed with autism.


“As a single mom to a special needs child, this feels like a nightmare. My heart is broken into a million pieces,” Adams wrote in the suit.


Zohar remains in an undisclosed intensive care unit recovering from his injuries, according to News 12.


In the lawsuit, the mother alleged the landlord’s “negligent, careless and reckless manner” for failing to install the correct window guard sizes caused her son to fall to the concrete pavement.

ALEXIS ADAMSAdams and Dillard dated shortly before she got pregnant with Zohar.alexisadams/Instagram ALEXIS ADAMS AND FLO RIDAThe rapper did not believe the child was his until Adams revealed the paternity results proving he was the father.alexisadams/Instagram
Adams and the “Get Low” rapper do not share custody of their son and she has full guardianship over Zohar, she told Insider two months ago.


The mom also alleged the 43-year-old avoided paying for the child’s tuition and health insurance for years.


“Flo Rida has only seen his son once during the paternity test but kept his shades on and his back turned,” she told Daily Mail in 2018. “They were in the same room. He didn’t try to hug Zohar, nothing. It was very cold.”

FLO RIDAFlo Rida is not involved in the lawsuit. officialflo/Instagram



In 2018, Judge Shira Atzmon ordered Dillard’s child support payments to increase from $8,000 to $9,000 a month, according to Bossip.


As of last December, Adams and Dillard are still battling out child support payments.
 

Two kids seriously hurt after falling from windows of NYC building in separate plunges​



By
Larry Celona,
Jesse O’Neill and
Jorge Fitz-Gibbon


April 16, 2023 2:02pm
Updated





Paramedics rushed the child to the hospital following the harrowing fall.
Paramedics rushed the child to the hospital following the harrowing fall.


Two young children were seriously injured after falling out of windows in Big Apple apartment buildings on Sunday, police and law enforcement sources said.
The youngsters were hurt when they plummeted from the windows without proper guarding in separate scary incidents just hours apart on a spring day, according to the sources.
The first accident took place just after 11:30 a.m. at 420 West 26th Street, when a three-year-old girl fell from a sixth-floor apartment at the Chelsea Houses public housing complex, according to police.

child falls out of buildingA three-year-old girl fell out of the window of a sixth floor apartment building in Chelsea.G.N.Miller/NYPost mother of child who looks shaken with police at scene at 26th street and 9th ave Manhattan. Mother of the child, appears shaken at the scene of the unfortunate fall. John Roca 420 West 26th Street The horrifying accident happened just after 11:30 a.m. at 420 West 26th Street in NYCHA’s Chelsea Houses complex.G.N.Miller/NYPost
The little girl was on a bed pushed up against a window when she fell approximately 60 feet and landed on a grassy area, according to sources.


She was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical but stable condition.





The window did not have window guards, a violation of city law, sources said.


Five other children and three adults were in the apartment at the time, according to the sources.


Later in the afternoon, a two-year-old girl plunged out of a fifth-story window at an apartment building in Far Rockaway, sources said.


The toddler fell onto a grassy area in the rear of the building on Beachgirt Boulevard at 3:30 p.m., according to law enforcement sources.


She was rushed to Long Island Jewish Children’s Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition.


The girl’s father was home at the time of the incident and there were no window guards in place.
 

Girl, 4, falls three floors from NYC window — miraculously only breaks leg​



By
Tina Moore and
Georgia Worrell


June 3, 2023 3:26pm
Updated





A 4-year-old girl fell from a third-floor window in Brooklyn Saturday — and suffered only a broken leg, cops said.
The tot was looking out of the window in her building at 230 Madison St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 8:30 a.m. when she tumbled out and onto the street.
Both of her parents were home, but the window didn’t have guards on it, cops said.
“Thank God she survived,” a police spokesperson said.

Building that child fell from.
A 4-year-old girl fell to the street from this Brooklyn building Saturday morning.
Rescue worker and residents after the fall.
Residents and a rescue worker stand by after the girl fell.
The girl was taken to a hospital with a broken leg.

“It’s shocking that this happened here,” a neighbor who lives across the street said. “But all I can say is I’m thankful everyone is O.K.”
 

Girl, 3, in critical condition after falling from sixth-floor window in Harlem​



By
Haley Brown,
Larry Celona and
Craig McCarthy


July 4, 2023 3:36pm
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A 3-year-old girl is fighting for her life after falling from a sixth-floor window in Harlem, cops said Tuesday.
The tot managed to get through a gap in a window with an air conditioner inside an apartment building on West 137th Street and fell around 1 p.m., according to police.
The girl was rushed to Harlem Hospital and is in critical condition, police said.
The 37-year-old mother was home at the time of the fall, cops said.
Neighbor Eustolia Gomez, 53, rushed to the little girl after hearing her hit the ground behind the apartment building.
“I was here preparing to cook when I heard something slammed. When I walked over there was a little girl on the floor laying face down.” Gomez said. “It was a really loud noise.
“I came running to look for someone to call 911 because I didn’t have my phone,” he said.
The first-floor resident said in the nearly half-hour emergency responders were tending to the young girl, no one came down to look for her.

A view of outside of building
The little girl fell from the sixth floor. Robert Miller
Cops on the scene of the fall
Police responded around 1 p.m. Robert Miller
“It took them a long time to come down. They didn’t even know,” said Gomez’s daughter, Alexandra Vivar, 32, referring to the girl’s family members. “I think the police woke them up.”





“Mistakes happen but that’s too much of a mistake,” Vivar said, adding, “Once you hear silence for more than a few minutes and you know you have a baby you go and check on it.


“Silence and the kid home is not normal”
 





4-year-old boy dead after fall from NYC apartment window​



By
Craig McCarthy and
Haley Brown


July 10, 2023 5:15pm
Updated








A 4-year-old boy died Monday after falling four stories from an apartment window in Brooklyn, police said.


The child fell from the fourth floor of the building at 3301 Farragut Road in East Flatbush just before 3 p.m., cops said.


First responders rushed him to NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County, where he died, according to police.

A little boy died Monday after falling from a window in Brooklyn.A little boy died Monday after falling from a window in Brooklyn. Peter Gerber Brooklyn alleyIt’s unclear what caused the boy to fall.Peter Gerber
What caused the boy to take the tragic tumble wasn’t immediately clear.


Police sources said the fatal fall appeared to be an accident, and that no criminality was suspected.


One neighbor described a chaotic, bloody scene as people rushed to aid the boy and maintenance workers tried to figure out how he fell.

A Medical Examiners official at the scene of the fall.A Medical Examiners official at the scene of the fall.Wayne Carrington According to police, the fall appears to have been accidental.According to police, the fall appears to have been accidental.Wayne Carrington
“You see like 10 different people trying to revive him,” said Nashawna Harley, who witnessed the aftermath. “Cops picked him up and ran him over to the ambulance.”


“When I saw the baby lifeless and the police running with her I was like this is serious,” another witness told The Post.


Harley questioned how such a tragedy could unfold.

The side of the building where the boy fell from.The side of the building where the boy fell from.Wayne Carrington
“Where are the parents?” the woman emotionally questioned. “Who was watching him? How is this possible? Did the building have bars”


“Somebody has to pay for this because this doesn’t make sense,” Harley said while tearing up.
 






Infant miraculously survives plunge from 3-story Bronx apartment window: cops​



By
Larry Celona and
Katherine Donlevy


July 14, 2023 10:58pm
Updated





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A 1-year-old survived falling from a three-story Bronx apartment window. GoogleMaps






An infant miraculously escaped unscathed Friday after falling out a third-story window of a Bronx apartment building, according to police.
The 1-year-old tumbled out an unsecured window of their Cypress Avenue and East 141st Street unit around 7 p.m., the NYPD said.
The baby was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where doctors determined they were “uninjured at this time,” cops said.
Investigators are probing the case, but believe the fall was accidental.
The infant’s extraordinary survival comes just four days after a 4-year-old boy fatally plunged from a fourth-floor window in Brooklyn.

The 1-year-old tumbled out an unsecured window at the apartment building.The 1-year-old tumbled out an unsecured window at the apartment building.Robert Mecea
One week earlier, a 3-year-old girl was seriously injured after squeezing through a gap in a window with an air conditioner inside her Harlem apartment building and plummeting six stories.





The three falls are the latest in a string across the city this year — including the death of 9-year-old Miguel Ramos, who had been climbing on the couch inside his sixth-story apartment when he opened the window, lost his balance and fell out.
 

Boy, 7, miraculously left nearly unscathed after falling 3 floors from NYC building: cops​



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A 7-year-old boy was lucky to be alive Friday after tumbling three stories down the side of his East Harlem high-rise and landing on a 9th-floor ledge, cops and neighbors said.


The youngster made off with just a few minor injuries following the wild incident at the 14-story apartment building on East 131st Street near Harlem River Drive, police said.


The boy was playing on a balcony on the 12th floor at around 11 a.m. when he went over and plunged down to the 9th floor — and screamed for help until neighbors came to his rescue.


“He said ‘I slipped,'” one woman told The Post.


Eugenia McCall, 53, said she was walking from the bedroom in the back of her apartment when she saw the kid hanging from the ledge of her 9th-floor terrace.

Scene of emergency response outside building with ladder on landing site and possible superhero shoe
A 7-year-old boy was lucky to be alive Friday after tumbling three stories down the side of his East Harlem high-rise and landing on a 9th-floor ledge, cops and neighbors said. Tomas E. Gaston
The boy had one leg perched over the railing and one dangling on the street, but in his confusion nearly threw his weight over the ledge, she said.


“And we are screaming telling him ‘No, to come back, bring your body back over.’ He came back over but he’s holding his back,” she recalled.


McCall’s 31-year-old son Jalil was the one to grab the boy and yank him to safety.


They immediately called 911 for the boy, who was complaining that his back was hurt.


Miraculously, the youngster didn’t break any bones, McCall said.


He was taken to Metropolitan Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, police said.


“I’m just glad that we were here because if we would not have been here that baby would have went over the ledge,” McCall said.


“There’s a dent in that concrete now,” she said, pointing to the ledge outside her window.

Child has fallen from a high-rise window, landing on a black metal ladder with a shoe possibly of a comic book character.
The child made off with just a few minor injuries following the wild incident at the 14-story apartment building. Tomas E. Gaston
Residents in the aftermath questioned how the boy was able to squeeze out the window, which is equipped with hinges.


“I have a narrow head and I can’t stick my head out,” a resident said about the window. “It must be a malfunction.”


The building’s management sent a notice to residents after the terrifying incident, warning that they all check that their window limiters are correctly installed.


The super and porter were making inspection rounds throughout the building to check that all safety precautions were in place following the child’s tumble.















While the events leading up to the fall are unclear, McCall believes the boy was saved by divine intervention.


“I’m a Buddhist and I chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo so just I’m banking on that’s what did this to this baby. It’s powerful. It’s powerful,” she told The Post.


“This is my altar right here, where I pray,” she said, pointing to a small wooden table inside her home.





“And I truly believe my prayers saved that baby’s life today besides my son springing into action.”


While the boy was spared from any serious injury, the plunge took an emotional toll on him, McCall said.


“You know how scary that is. That’s a child,” she said. “He was traumatized, he didn’t know what to do.”
 
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