– 5-year-old boy
– Fell from 4th floor window (some outlets say 5th floor, but the primary source says 4th)
– Building on Buchanan Place near Davidson Avenue in University Heights, Bronx
– Sunday around 5:30 p.m.
– Wearing only diapers
– Several injuries, facial swelling, scratches, some bleeding
– Witness Tone Rodriguez provided multiple quotes
– Window had guards but child squeezed through
– Taken to NewYork Presbyterian Hospital in critical but stable condition
– No arrests made, no immediate criminality suspected
– No arrests as of Sunday night
A 5-year-old boy fell out of a fourth-floor window of a Bronx apartment building onto the sidewalk on Sunday evening, leaving him clinging to life
.
The fall happened at the corner of Buchanan Place and Davidson Avenue in University Heights
, with
witnesses saying they were standing out on the sidewalk at around 5:30 p.m. when they heard a loud thud
.
The boy was shown on video wearing nothing but diapers.
The incident left the child with injuries indicative of falling from an elevated position
.
“We just heard the impact from the body, and his body hit the concrete,” witness Tone Rodriguez said
.
Rodriguez said he couldn’t believe what he saw — a 5-year-old lying on his face
.
When police rolled the boy over he had several scratches
.
“His face was all swollen on this side. He was like, you can tell he got hit bad.
We were trying to figure out where he came from,” Rodriguez added
.
Video from the scene showed the child kneeling motionless on the sidewalk with his head on the ground and arms outstretched.
Onlookers immediately realized the child had fallen from a window.
“He got through the window, but he took a minute to get through that because the window does have guards on it. He must have squeezed through it somehow,” Rodriguez said
.
One onlooker shouted an anguished question at the scene, captured on video.
“Wow, a boy just fell out the window!” a witness could be heard saying.
Another person cried out, “Where is the f–king parents, man?”
People gathered around the injured child as another onlooker offered a prayer.
“God bless him,” someone said.
Two cops turned the child on his side
as they awaited paramedics at the scene.
The child is now recovering at NewYork-Presbyterian
.
The boy had been listed in critical but stable condition
.
Neighbors told local news the child may have special needs.
Police said no arrests had been made as of Sunday night
.
Investigators found no evidence of criminality in the fall.
In the viral moment captured on video, pedestrians watched in horror as emergency responders discovered a young child on a Bronx sidewalk beneath a fourth-floor window on Buchanan Place. The small boy, clad only in diapers, lay motionless on the concrete after tumbling from an apartment window that had protective guards—but which he had managed to squeeze through. Witnesses heard the impact of his body hitting the ground and rushed to help, calling 911 and flagging down a passing police van as the child remained unconscious on the pavement below.
One witness observed critical details about how the child had escaped the window’s protective measures.
The window featured guards designed to prevent children from falling, yet Rodriguez’s observation suggested the boy had been small enough to navigate around them, whether through a gap between the bars or by squeezing past the guards themselves.
EMS rushed the boy to New York Presbyterian, where police say he is expected to recover
.